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"There's a lot of moments that stand out for me," Pierce, 39, who'll be retiring after 19 years with the Los Angeles Clippers, said of his 2014-15 season in Washington. "Otto Porter, knowing I had an influence on him. There's a lot of things I remember off the court just having a relationship with them... I keep up with them even today to see how they're doing. I talk to a few of the guys. Of course a lot of people are going to remember the things we provided in the playoffs." The Wizards won 46 games that year and advanced to the semifinals only to lose in six games to the Atlanta Hawks. They'd swept the heavily favored Toronto Raptors in the first round, stole home-court advantage from the No. 1 seed Hawks but Wall broke his hand/wrist in the opener. That changed the series, keeping him out three games. For Anderson, who was signed after Pierce walked in free agency to play for his hometown team and the coach he won a championship with, it was not a glorious time. Pierce was gone the moment his three-pointer in Game 6 to force overtime vs. Atlanta was waved off because it came after the buzzer.
Anderson longed for a second chance after he appeared in just 13 games of a season that left the Wizards outside of the postseason. Anderson, 34, is now a role player for the Clippers, who the Wizards defeated 117-110 on Sunday for their biggest win in a 12-15 season. Pierce is his teammate. Neither played in that game. During Las Vegas Summer League, Anderson was working out to rehabilitate his troublesome left ankle and the Wizards visited him. The ankle required two surgeries in five months and the first came after his 2014-15 season with the Brooklyn Nets to remove bone spurs. at the time, that caused a tendon to fray. "Personally, it was," Anderson said about re-signing with the Wizards being a priority as a result. "For them it wasn't. Whatever the reason that's fine. [RELATED: Beal continues to prove worthy of $128 million max contract] Anderson has averaged 11.3 minutes in the seven games that he has appeared in for the Clippers, and 2.4 points on shooting 40% from three-point range.
There were other options on the table for Anderson, who made $4 million when he signed for one year in Washington and now plays for the $1.3 million veteran minimum in Los Angeles. "It wasn't that easy," Anderson said of playing at a discount. "I turned down some good money from other teams. Not as high caliber teams but teams I would've played a lot more and made a lot more money. Coming off the two ankle surgeries I did, you want to make sure this year you're not rushing into everything. With an explososive team we have I figured I was going to fit in. I came here with the mind-set be ready, be patient." Though a lot of the pieces are different with the Wizards, some bad habits remain. For every win over the likes of the Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pitons, there are losses to the Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers with obscene points allowed. As much as injuries contributed to 41-41 and the firing of then-coach Randy Wittman last season, the yo-yo effect has been there under new coach Scott Brooks.
The Wizards have a thinner bench to begin with and injuries to Ian Mahinmi (right knee) and Jason Smith (right hamstring) have forced an undrafted rookie in Daniel Ochefu into action. "We win four or five games. We lose four or five games. We win some big games, we lose to teams we shouldn't lose to," Anderson said in explaining last season. "You can't do that. "The rhyme or reason (for that) is your mind-set and your approach. You can't approach a Philly as a Philly. You approach them as if they're Cleveland or Golden State. That just goes with maturity." Mind-set falls on the backcourt of Wall and Beal, both in their mid-20s, who have been playing at an All-Star level. On Monday, Beal missed a game-winning three-point shot to the Indiana Pacers, but he has strung together a career-high seven consecutive games with 20 points or more. Wall is averaging a double-double again. They're in sync like never before. The duo may have "disliked" each other on the court– in Wall's own words – at times, but they've clearly moved past that.
Anderson has been there for flareups with every team he has played with and it's many. He has played in Charlotte, Toronto and Brooklyn, too. He also has spent time playing professionally in Italy, Russia, Croatia, Israel and Spain. "Brothers always have a conflict with each other," Anderson said. "They just got to learn how to get past it. However they do that is on them. You're going to have bickering with every team. That actually builds the team." Pierce only was complimentary of what he saw then and what he has seen since from the Wizards' backcourt, which could make the All-Star Game together for the first time. "I thought those guys got along pretty well" he said. "When you're losing and things aren't going your way, then little things get brought up. I've been a victim of that in the past when playing with losing teams. That's all part of it." [RELATED: Takeaways from Wizards' last-second loss to Pacers] THEY lie to us. "Do you believe the Earth is round?"
Kyrie Irving asked his teammates, Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. His teammates, who apparently weren't sure the insane rabbit hole they were about to go down, both laughed before they gave a resounding yes. "This is not a conspiracy," Irving said. "The Earth is flat." Thus began a four-plus minute conversation about the conspiracy that has infiltrated our daily lives about the Earth being round from Irving and what THEY don't want you to know. MORE: KID REPORTER STORMS OFF AFTER JOHN WALL REVEALS HIS FAVORITE FOOD Listen, if you have made it this far without rage-closing your browser or throwing your computer this isn't going to get any better. If you think this is a bit from Irving, it is not. "All these things that particular groups, and I won't pinpoint one group, they almost offer up this education. The fact that in our lifetimes that there are so many holes and so many pockets in our history... Is the Earth flat or round? You need to do research on it... they lie to us."
But seriously, who are THEY? This is driving me insane. Kyrie won't answer, but now we get to the next level of this conspiracy theory. “What I’ve been taught is that the earth is round,” Irving said. “But if you really think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move and the fact that, can you really think of us rotating around the sun and all planets aligned, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what’s going on with these planets.” He put planets in quotes and thankfully, Richard Jefferson -- or how I like to refer to him, the voice of reason -- jumps in and points this out for the listeners and Jefferson asks why he put planets in quotes. “Because, everything that they send—or that they want to say they’re sending—doesn’t come back,” Irving explained. “There is no concrete information except for the information that they’re giving us. They’re particularly putting you in the direction of what to believe and what not to believe.
The truth is right there, you just got to go searching for it.” We eventually move on from the Earth being flat to conspiracy theories about famous assassinations. These are about what you would expect from a guy who just confessed to the Earth being flat and a strong disbelief in planetary systems. Unlike Irving's view of our galaxy, he is not alone. I agree with him https://t.co/lbB8gEHZsT— Wilson Chandler (@wilsonchandler) February 17, 2017 Honestly, now I just need to know what other conspiracy theories he believes. MORE WIZARDS: FORMER WIZARDS COACH WITTMAN: WALL IS NBA'S BEST POINT GUARD All-Star weekend offers reporters from all walks of life to ask NBA superstars essentially any question they want. Many credentials are handed out and it's basically a free-for-all. Players will get asked questions they normally would not be asked by people who would not normally ask them. This year a young kid reporter approached Wizards superstar John Wall during his media session in New Orleans and asked him what his favorite home cooked meal is.