Quite a few question marks this summer in the NBA. One of the biggest, at least for the Israeli audience of the best league in the world, is the situation of Danny Avdia’s team, the Washington Wizards, who according to the latest reports are interested in landing Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell. Now, Athletic have analyzed the chances of implementing the move.
“The Wizards are currently looking for another All-Star player,” it says, “The ideal is for the team to experience significant progress from one of its young players, but it’s one thing to expect the same players as Danny Abediah, Daniel Gafford, Roy Hachimura and Corey Kispert to become starters, and another to expect them to Become Stars All of these are projected to become solid rotation players, not stars.
The draft will be another opportunity for Washington to land a player who can become a star, but if Beal is as good as he was in 19/20 and 20/21 the team will almost certainly be good enough to compete for a spot in the play-in, which will make it difficult for the Wizards to get an early pick.”
Following this, Washington is trying to get its hands on players who are in a problematic situation in their teams, such as Mitchell and Kevin Durant, but it seems that completing such a move will not be easy at all. “It’s hard to imagine the Wizards offering a package that would be enough to compete for Mitchell,” it says. “There are many obstacles on the way to this trade, but it’s the kind of move that Washington should prioritize, if not now then in the summer of 2023.”
Regarding the situation of Durant, who is known to have requested a trade from the Brooklyn Nets, it is written: “It would not surprise anyone if the Wizards approached the Nets about him, but the problem is that other teams can offer young players with higher upside than the Wizards. Washington does not have a young player whose ceiling matches the That of Jaylen Brown, for example.”