The Wizards will draft ninth overall in the 2019 NBA Draft on Thursday, June 20. Leading up to the draft, we will write about the players whom the Wizards will likely have available to draft with that pick. Today’s article profiles P.J. Washington, a scoring forward out of Kentucky.
P.J. Washington, Forward, Kentucky
In a bygone era, P.J. Washington might’ve been dismissively labeled a “tweener.” At 6-foot-8 and 230 lbs., Washington is a bit smaller than your traditional power forward but a bit bigger than your average small forward.
But any positional awkwardness for players of Washington’s size was eradicated four years ago, when Draymond Green took the league by storm as the defending, playmaking conduit of one of the best teams in basketball history.