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For the first time in three years, the Washington Wizards will be playing meaningful basketball games after the regular season is. It’s been an improbable run for a team whose postseason ambitions seemed more like a pipedream after the Chicago Bulls loaded up at the trade deadline. On April 1, the Wizards were 12th in the East. Now, they are officially play-in bound.
The last time the Wizards made a postseason run, it was a short one. They didn’t make it past the first round, as Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, and the Toronto Raptors made quick work of the Wizards and sent Bradley Beal and company packing after six games.