The Washington Wizards have become a fascinating study in the theory that somehow less can be more.
Robbed of the player most considered their best and most indispensible piece, the Wizards have rolled off 10 wins in their last 14 games with a series of impressive, well-played victories against some of the best teams in the NBA.
Is it possible, then, that they could be a better team without John Wall than they were with him?
That’s nonsense in the longer term — it is not possible that a team can improve over, say, 40 games without its all-star point guard — but for now Bradley Beal, Wall’s stand-in Tomas Satoransky, Otto Porter Jr.