A glimmer of hope!
Despite being under contract for next season, according to the Washington Post, league sources told SheridanHoops that team president Grunfeld is not a lock to return.
This is Grunfeld’s 13th season in Washington, and the Wizards have yet to advance past the Eastern Conference semifinals. Barring a miraculous turn of events down the stretch, the Wizards will miss the playoffs for the seventh time in his tenure. Overall, Grunfeld has produced mixed results.
Grunfeld signed Gilbert Arenas and acquired Antawn Jamison from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Devin Harris, Jerry Stackhouse and Christian Laettner. He traded Kwame Brown and Laron Profit to the Los Angeles Lakers for Caron Butler and Chucky Atkins. He also drafted one of the top backcourts in the league, selecting Wall first overall in 2010 and Beal third overall in 2012. These have been the highlights of his tenure in Washington.
The lowlight of Grunfeld’s tenure was selecting Jan Vesely sixth overall in 2011 – one of the league’s biggest busts ever at that spot. He also selected Jordan Clarkson 46th overall in 2014 and traded him to the Lakers for cash. Clarkson will be one of the top restricted free agents on the market this summer and is considered a core piece of the Lakers’ backcourt moving forward.
The jury remains out on Otto Porter, who was drafted third overall in 2013. Grunfeld also surrendered a top-nine protected draft pick in 2016 as part of the Markieff Morris trade in February.
With that in mind, there have been rumblings around the league for months that former Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry could be in the mix as a possible replacement. Ferry was also under consideration most recently with the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets. Also, Thunder assistant general manager Troy Weaver has been mentioned as a potential candidate.
Coach Randy Wittman is not expected to return next season.
After Wall acknowledged the Wizards needed to beat the Sacramento Kings on March 30 to keep the team’s playoff hopes realistically alive, Washington lost 120-111. After the game, Beal said, “To me, it felt like we gave up.”
That’s not the type of talk you want to hear from a core member of the team when you’re on the coaching hot seat. Wittman owns a 175-198 regular season record (.469) as Wizards coach.
One potential replacement on the market is Scott Brooks, Durant’s former coach with the Thunder. Brooks was the NBA’s Coach of the Year in 2010 and won a Western Conference title with the Thunder in 2012 before losing to the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. Brooks holds a 338-207 record (.620) as a coach. A former point guard in the league for 10 seasons, Brooks would be an intriguing fit with Wall after helping to develop Westbrook in Oklahoma City.
Wittman is expected to be the primary scapegoat for an underwhelming season, which could potentially buy Grunfeld one more chance to turn things around.
But whoever is tasked with fixing the Wizards, Durant is unlikely to be part of the solution this summer. It wasn’t the worst idea in the history of ideas, but it isn’t happening.
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