From the opening tip you could see the Jazz main focus was to front and double Wizards guard Brad Beal all night long and see if someone else could beat them. Unfortunately for Washington, not enough offense was summoned up to prevent an ugly loss to Utah 116-95, ending their five game home stand with a 3-2 record. Utah, who is also jockeying for playoff position applied fierce defense from start to finish, holding the Wizards to 42 percent shooting from the field, 29 percent

Wizards 30-40 vs Jazz 40-29 When: Monday, March 18th, at 7 p.m. Where: Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. TV: NBCSWA, ATTSN-RM / Radio: 1500 AM, 97.5 FM/ 1280 AM The Zone Injury Wizards: Dwight Howard (Day to Day/ Back), John Wall (Out for the season/ Haglund’s deformity and chronic Achilles tendon injury) Jazz: Dante Exum (Out/ Torn Patellar Tendon in right knee), Thabo Sefolosha (Day to Day/ Left Hamstring) Wizards - 114.6 - points per game 116.9 - points against 47.1 - F

The Washington Wizards were looking to get back on track, hosting the Utah Jazz in the second game of their five game home stand. The Jazz had yet to win a game in 2018, but that changed last night with a 107-104 win over the Wizards. Washington had more than it's fair amount of chances in this one, they owned the largest lead of the game at one point, 12. Even owning an 8 point lead early in the third quarter, also regaining the lead with 2:31 left in the game. But they woul

Wizards (23-17) vs Jazz (16-24) When: Wednesday, January 10th at 7 p.m. Where: Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. TV: NBC Sports Washington / Radio: 1500 AM Injury Wizards: Sheldon Mac (Out, Achilles), Chris McCullough (G-League assignment ) Jazz: Rudy Gobert (Out, Knee) , Dante Exum (Out, shoulder) , Derrick Favors ( Game time decision, ankle), Raul Neto (Out, Knee) Notes - Washington has lost four straight games to the Jazz, failing to reach 100 points in all four of thos

By Cardell Dudley Following the resurgence of the Washington Wizards franchise during the prior 2005-2006 season, even the most loyal of Wizards fans wasn't convinced that the prior season wasn't a fluke. The young star of the Wizards Gilbert Arenas said it was the beginning of something special and went out to prove it. Agent 0 picked right back up where he left off during the 05-06 season, where he averaged 29.3 points, 6.1 assist and 2 steals per game. Arenas would go on a