One of the reasons Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin decided last May to not re-hire Michael Jordan to run the team's basketball operations was because of Jordan's inability to build Washington into a playoff contender.
Ten months later, the overhauled Wizards would have to win all of their remaining 17 games just to finish with the 37-45 record Washington posted in each of the last two seasons with Jordan as a player. The Wizards (20-45) haven't won three consecutive games all season and they enter tonight's game at New York with a season-high six-game losing streak and the NBA's third-worst record.
Pollin insists he was willing to take this step backward to establish solid footing for the future, labeling this season a "rebuilding year".
Yet, has anything been rebuilt? There's a new coach, new management, a top-tier free-agent signee in Gilbert Arenas and a promising top-10 draft pick in Jarvis Hayes, but 65 games into the season little has meshed.
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