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Is Trey Burke the Wizards' Next Randy Foye?

In 2009, the Wizards were just finishing up an injury-riddled, disappointing season which included firing then-head coach Eddie Jordan. Sound familiar? During that summer, the Wizards anticipated health and a new coaching hire would bring them back to relevance. As a result of these heightened expectations, the Wizards made one of the riskier moves in recent memory of this franchise, when they traded a package away that included their #5 pick in the 2009 NBA Draft to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Randy Foye and Mike Miller. This was expected to be a move that showed that the Wizards were ready to contend with the elite in the Eastern Conference, but the trade left a lot of question marks with the two players they were picking up, namely Randy Foye, who was on the final year of his rookie contract and still was unproven.