On second thought, maybe the Wizards should sit free agency out this summer.
After Washington was a bystander during Thursday’s NBA draft, having traded their first-round pick for Markieff Morris, my colleague Jerry Brewer wrote that the Wizards “can’t be can’t be timid or stubborn over the next few weeks,” the start of the most competitive free agency period in NBA history. If Sporting News contributor Mitch Lawrence’s sources are to be believed, timidity and stubbornness are the least of Wizards fans’s concerns.
Lawrence reports that the Wizards are willing to offer Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah a maximum contract, which “would start at $28 million and could reach about $120 million over four seasons.”
Say, that sounds like a lot of money for an injury-prone, 31-year-old coming off shoulder surgery and whoseproduction has declined over the last three seasons. The Wizards were among the teams linked to the 2014 NBA defensive player of the year in a report earlier this week, but the max contract business is what makes Lawrence’s report so unbelievable. And yet…
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