After two consecutive seasons in which they made the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Washington Wizards went 41-41 in 2015-16 and missed the playoffs.
A .500 record might have been too kind of a representation for a team that had plenty of problems in the locker room, which led to the firing of head coach Randy Wittman on April 14.
Point guard John Wall, the team's biggest name, started revealing the mindset around the organization, which included Wittman playing favorites in the locker room, per J. Michael of CSN Mid-Atlantic:
I did a great job leading as much as I could. A lot of guys that's on a one-year deal, you put your foot down, you say what you need to say as a leader, but at the end of the day if everybody is not held accountable from the starting position down -- from me to the last person on the bench -- if we're not held accountable if one person wants to do something more no matter what I say as a leader if he's not backing me up it's not going to work. I think it was tough because with nine guys coming in on one-year deals everybody wanted the last word. Everybody wanted the last say so. This is probably the most fl ...
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