Wizards owner Ted Leonsis is convinced this year’s iteration of D.C’s basketball team is the deepest he’s ever seen. ESPN’s Kevin Pelton, who has the Wizards finishing seventh in the Eastern Conference, disagrees. So do Las Vegas oddsmakers, who put the Wizards’ over/under at 44.5 wins, the sixth-best mark in the conference.
The truth is, no one—neither the team’s owner, nor Vegas, nor Pelton, an analytics guru—really freaking knows. There is a broad spectrum of outcomes in play for next season, which seems odd for a franchise that’s tried to corner the market on continuity in recent years.