One after another, the Washington Wizards marched in for their exit interviews with owner Ted Leonsis and general manager Ernie Grunfeld. After a disappointing 2015-16 campaign that ended with a .500 record, no playoff appearance and head coach Randy Wittman’s ouster, there was bound to be some bickering and grumbling about what went wrong and why.
One point on which every player could agree: Kelly Oubre Jr. should’ve played more.
“No matter what it was, he was going 100 miles per hour and doing it 100 percent, and you couldn’t be mad at it,” one of those Wizards, Bradley Beal, told Bleacher Report. “With where we were in our season, heck, we probably should’ve just thrown him out there and let him continue to play his way through it.”
Out of the five-month-long regular season, Oubre spent only one in Wittman’s regular rotation. Over a 19-game stretch between mid-December and mid-January—during which he started in place of the injured Otto Porter Jr. nine times—the New Orleans native played 19.3 minu ...
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