Michael Winger

The number one point that I made throughout the summer, Abdullah, was that these kind of things will sort themselves out by people playing well and people not.

And at the end of the day, when Michael Winger said himself, president of basketball operations for Monumental Basketball, they're not in the business of just handing out minutes anymore if that is truly the case middleton should be playing his way out of the rotation at this point in time and maybe he'll have a couple more opportunities we'll see maybe not to the extent that he did last night but if this is truly the idea we want to have here in washington where you are earning your minutes and how you play will dictate how much you play then these things should work themselves out and maybe the door will open for a player Like Will Riley, now that you have an injury to Champagny, this should be the opening off the wing for a player that can create his own shot off the dribble and maybe give you some resemblance of a spark in three-point shooting.

I know the defense isn't quite there, but it's not there for Middleton either.

That's what I'm saying.

For Shane's concern about just wait until he's ready, obviously, I agree with that.

The way this organization is being run now, Michael Winger, Will Dawkins, like, they're not pushing him, period.

And...

You don't go through three years of tanking to push the number one pick early in a regular season game in the NBA.

So the clear, and like you said, like, this is a clear sign that, that Washington sees cool Bali as like a long-term part of their plans.

And so I think that's kind of important to note where it's like, you know, Will Dawkins, Michael Winger, the whole team is all in at, you know, keeping below cool Bali.

So I know I mentioned in the past, like with restricted free agency, you know, watch out for like, you know, the warriors and like nets, for example, I still think those are two teams that could really go out there and get him if they wanted to, because they're going to have a ton of cap space.

But like I said, you know, it seemingly looks like, you know, Washington below cool Bali, they want to stay together.

You know, he dunked the ball so hard and I felt like Capital One Arena erupted.

And it was just really nice to see the fact that, you know, the Wizards, when you talk about what Michael Winger and Will Dawkins have done in terms of team building and thinking about the roster flexibility of getting these players who, you know, have great positional size and they can go out there and they can do a lot of things.

Well, those things actually came into fruition in a real way that led to a tangible victory.

And so, you know, I thought that that was something that I definitely wanted to highlight.

And our guest today, well, if you're looking for the behind the scenes of the Wizards and Mystics, our guest doesn't need a whole lot of introduction.

He is the president of Monumental Basketball, Michael Winger.

Welcome to District of Basketball.

Thanks for coming on, man.

I go out and about.

You're

a real person, Michael Winger.

And a lot of people, mostly individually, but every now and then, you get a small group of people.