It’s bad when your team’s best player is out for several months with a knee injury, and worse when your other two stars are sent home for illness. But when the remaining players lined up to scrimmage Washington Wizards assistant coaches in yesterday’s practice, things went from bad to worse.
Here’s Washington Post reporter Ivan Carter’s story on Nick “The City/Bean Burrito” Young preparing to make his second start of his career against the Chicago Bulls tomorrow night. But what sticks out more in this story than Young’s effectiveness as a starter is how practice finished yesterday afternoon. An excerpt:
At the end of the hour-and-a-half long workout, Jordan chose five players and had them defend assistant coaches Mike O’Koren, Phil Hubbard, Randy Ayers, Dave Hopla and Wes Unseld Jr. for two possessions.
On the second possession, O’Koren, who last played in the NBA in 1987, drove and passed out to an open Hubbard, who last played in 1989, and Hubbard made a long jump shot over the outstretched arm of Brendan Haywood.
And Haywood was playing so well this season, too.
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