WASHINGTON -- The look was familiar, but the setting and context were different. Marcin Gortat was wearing a Wizards t-shirt and shorts after practice on Thursday, just as he did when he was a player.

Passing isn’t the only way to assist a teammate. The ability to set effective screens, both on and off the ball, is an underappreciated skill, one that doesn’t show up in the standard boxscore, and ...

WASHINGTON — At the end of a recent practice, one of the most effective centers of the Washington Wizards’ recent past tutored one of the franchise’s centers of the present. With Bradley Beal ...

Most really good NBA players are considered really good because they are good at the things that it is easy for a fan to see just watching the basketball. Scoring, passing, shooting, shot blocking, ...