An indispensable part of the good feelings that had cautiously returned to Verizon Center over the past two weeks was simply that the baggage of the team’s former stars – Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, Brendan Haywood – had been lifted and discarded. It left the revamped squad, led by promoted Andray Blatche and JaVale McGee, and spark plugs Al Thornton and James Singleton, free to play hard, entertain, and perhaps win a few games after a dreadful first 50 games.
And they did win three of their first four, the final one despite losing Josh Howard to a season-ending knee injury.
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