D.C. basketball is undefeated in 2025!
The Washington Wizards started the New Year with a bang in the form of a 125-107 drubbing of the Chicago Bulls at Capital One Arena.
A Corey Kispert three-pointer with 1:25 left in the first quarter put the Wizards up 25-22. Thanks to some hot shooting for the home team, Washington held onto that lead the rest of the way.
The Wizards shot nearly 50% from the field and 47.2% from the three-point line. The good guys splashed in 17 three-pointers with six of them coming off of Jordan Poole’s hands,
Poole spearheaded the Wizards’ offensive attack with 30 points on an efficient 10/21 shooting from the field and 6/13 from beyond the arc. He was one of seven different players in double figures for D.C.
Bub Carrington and Alex Sarr each had 11 points. Sarr had his streak of multiple threes snapped, going just 1/2 on the night. But he did grab 11 rebounds and had five assists.
Kyle Kuzma had a quiet night in his second game back from a month-long absence. He tallied five points, five rebounds, and five assists off the bench across 22 minutes of action.
The 18-point win is the Wizards’ largest margin of victory this season. The lone downside from the game is that Bilal Coulibaly had to exit early with a non-COVID illness.
Next up for Washington is a home-and-home against the New Orleans Pelicans, the only team with fewer wins than the Wizards at this point in the season.