Darius Songaila News

The Washington Wizards continue to monitor the free agent market, hoping at some point to land an affordable backup big man.

Mike Jones of the WaTimes is reporting that, according to league sources, Nesterovic, Frye, Collins and Magloire are on the Wizards' target list.

Obviously, the Wizards are going to have to do something about their unbalanced roster.

No more Etan-vs.Brendan. The series ends at three. But they had dueling local media experiences over the past 24 hours, and one of them landed a few final shots, just for nostalgia purposes.

The New York developer trying to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn has gotten approval for a land deal he said was necessary to keep the project on track.

When asked early this week which opposing teams were poised to best improve themselves in Thursday's NBA Draft, Washington Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld had a simple answer.

While he did not go to high school here, Flint can still claim JaVale McGee of the Washington Wizards as another player in its rich basketball history.

Right after the Richard Jefferson deal, another big one is coming up. The Washington Wizards are close to a deal that would send the No... by Shady Botros 62 reads Right after the Richard Jefferson deal, another big one is coming up.

Posted by John Paulsen Promise for Terrence Williams ? Williams went back for a second workout with the Bobcats on Monday against Gerald Henderson.

The Washington Wizards' infatuation with Minnesota continues. The Wizards agreed in principle last night to a deal that would send the No. 5 overall pick, Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for forward Mike Miller and guard Randy Foye, two league sources said.

The Wizards had been open to dealing the pick from the moment they slipped to the fifth pick in the draft lottery. Ernie Grunfeld, the Wizards' president of basketball operations, was considering several offers and had spoken with more than a dozen teams, but he jumped on the offer from Minnesota two days before tomorrow's NBA draft.

Anyone who's ever watched Dominic McGuire at work knows that he's not ever going to be mistaken for an offensive powerhouse in the NBA.

STATS Per-game: 3.6 points, 2.4 rebounds, 0.1 assists, 1.3 3PA Per-36 minutes : 15.1 points, 9.9 rebounds, 0.3 assists, 5.6 3PA Percentages : 38.6 FG%, 32.6 3PT%, 82.8 FT%, 45.5 eFG%, 51% TS% Advanced : 14.5 PER, 16.1 REB%, 8.1 TO%, 20.3 UsgR, 111 ORtg, 114 DRtg, 0.5 WSAA .

If you can believe it, this year's home finale was not nominated for the Game of the Year.

I wish I was dunking on Washington right now. It's a tired clichA© to say that a rivalry cannot exist if one team always wins.

When Flip Saunders gets around to taking a hard look at the 15-player roster of the Wizards, he will find the limited, the attitudinally challenged and the physically spent.

It's an unwritten rule than any post involving the Wizards and boxing include this picture.

With this season finally over, I've naturally started thinking about next season.

Oh, what a night. For Wizards fans, the night was in ruin the last 6 minutes, 30 seconds as the little team that couldn't figured out every possible way it could to blow a 13-point fourth-quarter lead.

Chris Bosh, left, and the Raptors have won seven of their last 11, but they lost to Darius Songaila's Wizards last Friday.

Raptors forward Chris Bosh battles for the ball against Wizards Darius Songaila during the game Friday night in Toronto.