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The Sports Junkies

Will Dawkins Recaps The Wizards Season

The Sports Junkies

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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From 04/14 Hour 3: Will Dawkins joins The Sports Junkies to recap the Washington Wizards season.

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0:00.0

Don't forget you want to kick off summer with the junks live from the starboard in Dewey Beach.

0:05.5

The date Friday, May 22nd.

0:07.4

That's Memorial Day weekend.

0:09.2

It starts super early, 6 a.m.

0:12.6

It gets started early and doesn't slow down.

0:15.5

Be Mitch and Finley take over at 10 a.m.

0:17.8

It's brought to you by Main Street Bank.

0:19.9

Let's head to the rude guest hotline and welcome in our pal Will Dawkins, Wizards General Manager. Will, hello. Good morning. Hey, you can join us in Dewey Beach. Ah, that's what the plan for me. Yeah, you can chalk it up as a scouting trip. Scout, I don't know who and what you're scouting, but you can just put that on your expense report. There are players everywhere. That's what I'll say. There's players everywhere. Let's go. There are. And by the way, speaking of expense reports, thank you for the delicious breakfast. It's going to feed us. It's going to feed our producers. I think it's going to feed the entire like 1067 of the fan staff today. So thank you. That was much appreciated. Very kind to you guys. Very welcome. Just a token of our appreciation. You guys do great work covering local sports. And we appreciate you guys. Thanks, man. Classy move. We appreciate that. We threw out a question yesterday about your season. So you finished with 17 wins, 65 losses, and we threw out

1:12.5

this question, and I want to get the general manager's response to it. Was this season

1:18.4

of success? By the way, I called an unmitigated success. That was just me, Will,

1:24.5

I'm just putting it out there. Yeah, I think when you look at each season, you have pluses and minuses.

1:31.7

The way I kind of look at this phase that we're in is not in each season.

1:36.1

I think it was more of a deliberate methodical, like, three-year process with the ultimate goal of shifting the organization,

1:43.7

defining who we are, leaning

1:45.3

into the growth movement, the growth of the youth movement, and then doing things that put us in

1:51.4

position to have sustained success.

1:53.1

So when you break it down there, I think there are a lot of successful moments during this

1:58.3

season that contributed to that.

2:01.0

The losses don't tell the full story, but we definitely wanted to be in more competitive

2:04.7

games, and we think we will be moving forward. But the individual growth, the strong

2:11.0

organizational culture and environment that we're building, I think the exciting acquisitions

2:15.5

that we made in Trey and Anthony Davis will allow us to have more success moving forward.

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