Josh Robbins

And it was, I think, a question related to tanking or parity.

Either way, his point was the league and its teams don't know truly how much parity there is between whatever the 22nd best team is in reality compared to the 30th best team, the worst team.

The teams are now artificially finding ways to depress their own win totals and their own on-court product.

What I wonder is, are the Wizards much better than what their record says they are?

Of course they are to some degree, but how much?

How much?

Right.

So what am I saying here?

Shoot, I sound like Admiral Stockdale when I have this rhetorical question.

What I'm saying is maybe it's possible.

Okay.

Likely, maybe not, but possible that they will be

Even if you were to discount AD and Trey Young, that they would be better next year than they've shown because they're going to be trying to win games.

And then you add the two former All-Star vets.

So they might be a team, and I've had scouts tell me, they might be a playoff team.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, it might be a little strong.

One of the scouts said that's absurd, but the others didn't.

The others think that they could be a playoff team if everything breaks.

Yeah, I can't wait to see it.