This wasn’t pretty
Once again, the Wizards offered little resistance on defense, and very little on the other end, i.e., making buckets.
Indeed, offense was optional Wednesday in the Washington Wizards’ 76-86 loss to the Utah Jazz in their 2025 NBA Summer League matchup at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Once again missing most of its main weapons due to multiple DNP Coach Decision (…), the Wizards could not find any reliable source of scoring in the contest.
Very similarly to the last loss by the sister team in the WNBA, the Washington Mystics, the Washington Wizards remained in the contest for the first half but then completely blown away in the third quarter to the tune of 32-12 points… At that point garbage time was officially there and the Washington Wizards produced one of their patented “come from behind and lose by 10 or less” comebacks…
The single bright spot for the Wizards was AJ Johnson who scored 25 points in 35 minutes including two from five from deep. Leaky Black also produced well to the tune of 11 boards in 35 minutes — and he actually was zero (0) in the plus-minus category in his 33 minutes.
The Wizards are now done for the Summer, literally!