It appears as if the Washington Bullets will play some 2008 preseason games in Europe against NBA competition. Washington will play the New Orleans Hornets in Berlin and Barcelona. However, the bigger story for Bullets fans is that Coach Eddie Jordan and Gilbert Arenas spoke as if Gilbert and Antawn Jamison — the team’s two most prominent free agents — will return next season. First, Eddie Jordan:
“Going into next year, we don’t think we are going to see a lot of wholesale changes. We have got eight guys under contract and those are our top eight guys outside of Gilbert. We know that we are going to sign Gilbert back and Antawn back and they are high priorities for us. So, we don’t look at a wholesale changes in our roster…Our rookies are under contract and Gilbert and Antawn love it here. We have a great relationship, and we knew we were the best team in the Eastern Conference when we were all healthy. We anticipate signing our two priority guys.”
Gilbert: “I didn’t opt out to leave; I was opting out to to sign back.”
Also, this nice note: Antawn Jamison is about to become only the 8th player in franchise history to average 20 points and 10 rebounds per game over the course of a season. Elvin Hayes did it 6 times, Walt Bellamy did it 4 times, Moses Malone did it twice, Gus Johnson, Jeff Ruland, Chris Webber and Pervis Ellison each did it once.
Loading ...
FanSided
NFLMocks.com
