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SLAM Magazine: John Wall and Bradley Beal participating in today’s peaceful protest in DC. 📷: @KelynSoong pic.twitter.com/10u2dt6Kom

John Wall and Bradley Beal participating in today’s peaceful protest in DC. 📷: @KelynSoong pic.twitter.com/10u2dt6Kom

— SLAM (@SLAMonline) June 19, 2020

4 weeks ago – via Twitter SLAMonline

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Wall has participated in camps for Team USA, but has never represented them on the Olympic stage. In fact, the Wizards/Bullets franchise has never had an active player on the Olympic roster. “Definitely,” Wall told Marc Spears when asked if he was interested. “When you put that Red, White and Blue on, you’re representing your country. It doesn’t matter if ‘Wall’ is on the back or whatever name is on the back, I want to represent my country. I know how much this country means to me and I would definitely love to have an opportunity to play for it.”

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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John Wall wants DeMarcus Cousins on the Wizards

Wall spoke on the matter Wednesday in an Instagram Live interview with ESPN’s The Undefeated. He told Marc Spears he is still lobbying for the Wizards to sign Cousins, though after years of doing so, he seems to understand full well it is probably still a pipe dream. “Oh man, you know I’m trying to push for that. I’ve been on that for like five years. I want to sign him right now,” Wall said.

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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By the time the NBA returns in late July, Cousins will be less than a year removed from a very serious injury. So, it probably wouldn’t be smart for Cousins to return until next year, and Wall even said that himself. “I’m like ‘bro, be smart, take your time to get all the way healthy so you can show these people what you’re all about,'” Wall said. “I want him to focus on that and get back to the Boogie that he was.”

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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“During this pandemic, if you don’t come out of this a better person, I mean, I don’t know what to tell you,” John Wall said Tuesday in a conversation with The Athletic. “You know how people always say; I don’t have time to do this or time to do that? Well, we have all the time in the world to do all the things we couldn’t do the last three months. We couldn’t go nowhere. So, you can lock in and focus on what you need to focus on.”

4 weeks ago – via Fred Katz @ The Athletic

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He hasn’t been able to get out to many of the Black Lives Matter protests, considering he has an infant in the house. Still, he was one of the leading voices in putting together the Wizards players’ public statement following the killing of George Floyd. It’s one more topic he will teach his sons about when they’re old enough.

4 weeks ago – via Fred Katz @ The Athletic

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“You hear people say — what they always tell you is, don’t believe everything you hear. So, if I hear somebody say, ‘He shot somebody.’ I’m gonna be like, ‘Nah, it didn’t happen like that.’ But you get a full video to see that even when we don’t fight back and try to protect ourselves, we’re still getting killed. And then if we fight back and we do anything to a cop, we’re getting life in jail, multiple years. So, it’s a lose-lose situation either way, and that’s the toughest part about it.”

4 weeks ago – via Fred Katz @ The Athletic

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“You just gotta continue to protest peacefully,” John Wall said. “That’s the one thing you can do: Continue to protest peacefully, register to vote, educate yourself on the candidates. And most importantly, just go vote. If you do that, I think you can still play basketball, because if this happened and the season was still going on, what would we do? You know what I mean? I get where they (are) coming from. I understand the other side of it. I (also) understand the other side of guys wanna play, guys wanna play the game. We’ve been going through stuff like this throughout our lives. … We can still play basketball, but you have to still keep your mind on this stuff.”

4 weeks ago – via Fred Katz @ The Athletic

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Chase Hughes: John Wall to @Marc J. Spears on IG Live says he’s “definitely going to get emotional” before his first game back this fall after missing nearly two years due to injuries.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter ChaseHughesNBCS

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Chase Hughes: John Wall tells @Marc J. Spears on IG Live he “definitely” wants to play for Team USA in the Olympics now that they have been pushed back due to Covid-19. He added Team USA knows he’s interested.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter ChaseHughesNBCS

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Storyline: Olympic Games

“What happened with me and the organization at the end, it hurt, but from a business standpoint, it made sense for Ted,” Arenas said. “You have to start over. You have to start fresh. I remember when John Wall came, and I said to him: ‘Listen, I’m not some guy that’s going to sit here and beef with you over this spot. It’s your spot. This is your team. I’m on the outs. I’m going to follow your lead.’ Me and John have been big brother, little brother since then. There’s never been any problems with him.”

4 weeks ago – via Scott Allen @ Washington Post

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Chase Hughes: John Wall said on @Caron Butler’s podcast today there are plans for the Wizards & Mystics to march from Capital One Arena to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on June 19. Juneteenth is the anniversary of slavery ending in the U.S. John indicated plans aren’t finalized yet.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter ChaseHughesNBCS

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John Wall has had many battles with Kyrie Irving on the court, but he stands with him in what has become the league’s biggest off-court storyline. Irving has sounded some alarms about the NBA’s restart at Disney World, saying players should consider not going in light of recent protests around the country seeking social justice reform. Wall explained on ‘The Tuff Juice Podcast’ with Caron Butler why he feels the same.

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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“For me, if I was playing, I wouldn’t want to go to it, to be honest. I just don’t feel like it’s safe. I just don’t feel like it is. I understand why they want to do it and what they’re trying to get to, but I wouldn’t want to,” Wall said.

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Storyline: Coronavirus

Wall further clarified to say that even if he was fully healthy, he wouldn’t go. Wall, of course, is continuing through a lengthy recovery from a ruptured Achilles tendon. He is not going to play anyways for that reason. But if he were in the same boat as the rest of the players, he wouldn’t go. “If I was healthy enough to play, I wouldn’t want to go play,” he said. “What am I going, just to play eight games? I’m not going for just eight games and then coming back home.”

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Wall has often been pitted against Irving on the court as two longtime Eastern Conference point guards who were the No. 1 draft pick in back-to-back years. He has a lot of respect for Irving as a player and, as he explains, as an advocate as well. “Kyrie has his things where he be in his own world… ‘The Earth is flat,'” he said. “But to be honest, I think he has a point. A lot of people feel that way. I think that’s why they tried to get on that call to see how many people really want to go play and how many people don’t want to play. Because with all this ‘Black Lives Matter’ going on and protesting and trying to get justice and all that; a lot of people feel like it’s not safe to go there. That’s what he stands on.”

4 weeks ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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According to Bonga, we may be underestimating Wall a bit. “I think people don’t get how still crazy good John is right now. People don’t get it. People don’t get it. Seeing John… with us and [with] G-League [players]. It’s like, man, he cannot wait. He legit can’t wait to be back out there. That’s what he be showing every day out there. It’s crazy,” Bonga said.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Storyline: John Wall Injury

According to Bonga, we may be underestimating Wall a bit. “I think people don’t get how still crazy good John is right now. People don’t get it. People don’t get it. Seeing John… with us and [with] G-League [players]. It’s like, man, he cannot wait. He legit can’t wait to be back out there. That’s what he be showing every day out there. It’s crazy,” Bonga said.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Injuries, Isaac Bonga, John Wall, Washington Wizards

Storyline: John Wall Injury

Shams Charania of The Athletic said as much during a guest appearance in Complex’s Load Management podcast, noting that the Pelicans were among the teams to show interest in Beal: “New Orleans was a team that last year I heard looked into it… The Lakers at one point had interest in Beal. If you have interest in winning basketball games, you’re gonna have interest in Bradley Beal,” said Charania. “But everything he’s said so far, he wants to stay a Wizard. The Wizards have said they want to keep him. I don’t expect something on him until we see John Wall and Brad Beal play again.”

1 month ago – via Clutch Points

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Storyline: Bradley Beal Trade?

Like many matters of business these days, the Wizards’ strong statement on the death of George Floyd and racial injustice began with a Zoom call. Wizards forward Isaac Bonga told the backstory to Chris Miller on NBC Sports Washington’s ‘Wizards Talk’ podcast this week. Bonga said the team wanted to do something in unity, so John Wall, Bradley Beal and general manager Tommy Sheppard got all the players together virtually to talk about it.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Many teams around sports have released official comments on Floyd and race relations with protests currently breaking out across the U.S. and the world. The Wizards, though, may have gone further than anyone with a very direct message against racism and police brutality.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Activism, Social Media, Tommy Sheppard, Bradley Beal, Isaac Bonga, John Wall, Washington Wizards

“We will no longer tolerate the assassination of people of color in this country… We will no longer accept the abuse of power from law enforcement… We will no longer accept ineffective government leaders who are tone-deaf, lack compassion or respect for communities of color… We will no longer shut up and dribble.”

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Activism, Social Media, Tommy Sheppard, Bradley Beal, Isaac Bonga, John Wall, Washington Wizards

Here’s how it came about, per Bonga: “I’ve gotta give a big shout-out to Brad and John, and also Tommy. In those situations, you have such good leaders. [I’m] seeing during these times… improvement and a step up from people like Brad to leading people. I know he put out his own other statement, but seeing him in this position, he’s taking steps into becoming a really good leader off the court. Obviously, you have leaders on the court, but he’s being a leader off the court. That’s where I’m most impressed by him and people like John and Tommy also,” Bonga said.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Activism, Social Media, Tommy Sheppard, Bradley Beal, Isaac Bonga, John Wall, Washington Wizards

“That’s just something we wanted to do as a team. Having a platform right now, I think at this time right now there’s not enough people who do have those platforms who actually do say something and who actually take actions. We actually just want to make sure in that type of statement that we are here… We want to reach people because we know we can. That’s what we were trying to do.”

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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Activism, Social Media, Tommy Sheppard, Bradley Beal, Isaac Bonga, John Wall, Washington Wizards

Where the Wizards go from here will depend on many different factors, Wall’s health being one of them. But Leonsis seems confident in the potential of his team and their current track, as well as Wall and Beal as a pair despite what some might say is enough evidence their partnership has run its course. “I think they both, and I know they have communicated about this, realize that winning will define who they are and what their legacy is way more than their individual stats or their contract dollars. So, that comes with maturity. The 10 years have gone fast and I think that humbles people positively that nothing is given to you and that it’s a blur how fast it goes,” Leonsis said.

1 month ago – via Chase Hughes @ NBC Sports

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“If I get pulled over right now, I’m terrified,” Wall said on this week’s “Hoops, Adjacent” podcast. “To be realistic. If I’m in a dark area, or a back street, I’m not stopping. I’ll go to a high-speed chase to get to a spot where it’s a grocery store, or somewhere where’s there’s a lot of lights at, because that’s how terrifying it is. You’re telling me if I want to be a black kid to jog in a neighborhood, and I say, ‘okay, I want to cut through this white neighborhood, this rich neighborhood,’ and then all of a sudden, I’m targeted to get killed? Because I don’t belong there? Those are the kind of things I grew up with, like you wouldn’t go to this side of town where you wasn’t allowed. Why? We breathe the same air.”

1 month ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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But Floyd’s death – the officer who killed him has now been charged with second-degree murder by the state’s district attorney, with the other officers arrested this week and charged with aiding and abetting the crime – has touched a nerve, both among black people and many whites who are finally speaking up and speaking out. “It’s devastating, and it’s kind of frustrating,” Wall said. “Sometimes people want to go out there and act with their anger and do things. But sometimes the best way to do it is to speak with your words and not be silenced … I just feel like the most important thing we really all want to see is justice. I think that’s really what we want. A lot of us have gone out here and protested, and doing it in a peaceful manner and in the right ways, getting people to kneel and all those type of things. But I just think we want justice. That’s the fact of it; we want justice. And the scary part about it is, I feel like this has been going on for decades, been going on for so much longer than the time that I’ve been on this earth. But if we didn’t have social media or camera phones right now, we wouldn’t be able to see this act going on.”

1 month ago – via David Aldridge @ The Athletic

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