During the last month of the season, the Washington Wizards led the NBA in man games lost. Injuries, in particular to Bradley Beal, plagued the Wizards all season long, ultimately ending their chances of making the NBA Playoffs for a third straight year.
It’s rare to see a team point the finger at their own training staff, but that’s essentially what the Wizards did when they fired their head athletic trainer, Eric Waters.
Waters spent 12 years with the Wizards and took the fall this off-season. Washington had dealt with a number of strange, reoccurring injuries, so the team decided it was finally time to make a change.