How much is a possible season-ending loss — again — in a Game 6 on the Wizards’ mind?
“Strongly,” Bradley Beal said.
Three times in the last four seasons, Washington has given the Eastern Conference’s top seed a push. Twice, those series ended in the sixth game inside Verizon Center.
Those seasons, Beal and John Wall would have to ascend the steps to the postgame press conference about 15 feet from where Wizards coach Scott Brooks spoke Thursday afternoon. They would again explain that they were close, that they thought they should have won, that they’re not exactly sure why they did not.