Few coaches can relate to the pain of being cut from a team better than Washington Wizards coach Scott Brooks. Throughout his basketball career, he was deemed too short, too small, too something. First when he left high school, colleges didn’t want him. Then again as a pro, when he had to play for teams like the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association and Fresno Flames of the World Basketball League before finally sticking in the NBA. He knows what it’s like to await, then receive a roster decision.
He made his first one in Washington on Friday night when the Wizards cut three young players: shooting guard Jarell Eddie, point guard Casper Ware and forward Johnny O’Bryant.