Why should the Wizards sign Edy Tavares?

Photo by Irina R. Hipolito / Europa Press Sports via Getty ImagesThomas Bryant is out for the season due to a torn ACL. And that got me thinking about him a couple years ago.

Back in October 2018, when Bryant would dress for games in plain clothes I asked some of the Wizards beat writers in Capital One Arena why isn’t TB getting any playing time from coach Brooks. The most common answer I got was: “Thomas who?”

I remember one evening after a game, I spotted TB with his mom. I came up to them to chat. I told her I couldn’t understand how come her son isn’t getting any minutes. She told me “go tell that to the coach!”

And so I did. In a way.

I ended up interviewing TB extensively, as well as his…