I refuse to look backward or forward. With the way the Wizards played in their 107-97 win over Western Conference contender Denver — which had snapped the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 13-game winning streak the night before — with a group that barely knows one another and is still choking on the ashes from the volcanic eruption that blew up the team over the last week, the game deserves to be looked at entirely on its own merit.

That way, it’s just an entertaining and uplifting upset victory for a group of guys that were willing to work hard enough to make it happen.

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