AI Predicts The Next Five Years for the Washington Wizards….CRAZY RESULTS

AI Predicts The Next Five Years for the Washington Wizards….CRAZY RESULTS

On today’s show, I had AI predict the next five seasons for the Washington Wizards. We’re going to go through the results, and let’s just say they are interesting. You are Locked On Wizards, your daily Washington Wizards podcast, part of the Locked On. Your team every day. DC family, you’re locked on to the Washington Wizards, where you’re part of our family. We thank you for making Lockdown Wizards your first listen every single day. We are part of the Lockdown Podcast Network where it’s your team every day. If you’re not an everydayer already, come on, join the family. Subscribe, follow us on all our socials, and join the club. Everyone that’s been with us every single day throughout the summer, we appreciate you. We’re getting closer and closer to Wizards basketball. I’m one of your co-hosts, Ben Strober. cover all things DC sports for 1067 the fan and the team 980 and alongside as always the DC sports content creating savant that’s Abdul Aub be sure to check him out he is the host of the DMV sports zone page AB how we doing you meant AI as in Allen Iverson or artificial intelligence yeah I got I got an exclusive phone call with Alan Iverson nah this is going to be exciting episode I’m doing good you know NFL tomorrow I know you guys hate me talking about my commanders but they want to know going into Green Bay it’s going be excited. Yeah, it’s going to be it’s going to be a good one from Lambo. We haven’t won there since 88, so hopefully uh that changes tomorrow. Hopefully that changes for us tomorrow. But uh AB, you and I were young guys. Maybe some of our audience wouldn’t even understand what we’re talking about at this point with this uh artificial intelligence nonsense. Uh it’s taken over uh a lot of people’s jobs. It’s it’s taken over the way people do school work. You and I both graduated college, so we know firsthand that half of our peers probably only graduated because maybe you included. I won’t I won’t tell Virginia Tech about that, but uh Chad GPT, man. Uh it’s got some crazy things. It’s wrong all the time. And I said, you know, why not? Why why not give this a shot? And I saw our our friend from the Locked On New Orleans Pelicans podcast, Jake Madison. Uh, I decided to take this idea from him because I saw it and I watched his episode and I was like, you know what, it’s actually some really interesting things you can take away from the AI here and the results were really interesting. So, we’re going to get right into it. So, the basis uh that I used for the AI, what exactly what I told it to do, I said predict the next 5 years for the Washington Wizards as they currently go through this rebuild. I told it to predict records. I told it to make trades. I told it to sign free agents, draft players. Uh, I told it it could do whatever it wants, be completely unbiased. The Wizards don’t have to be good. The Wizards don’t have to uh do anything. They can be terrible every single year of the rebuild. I’m going to do whatever the AI predicts here. So, we’re going to get right into it. Um, it said it wanted to give a five-year projection through the 2029 2030 season. And it explicitly relied on the current roster and money situation reported trades that had happened throughout the summer. Uh, and then it would assume that the team’s recent moves were to clear future cap space, which would play a role in the strategy that the AI used to predict the next five years or so. So, AB, before you find out the results, is this like Chad GB? Is Chad GBT like the free version? What version is this? Um, I don’t. It’s whatever one I have nowadays, bro. There’s so many different versions. It’s not It’s not 5.0 or whatever it is. But AB before, since I have all the results, you you haven’t even touched this. Is this more going to be me surprising you uh with the results? What do you predict the AI has down the road? When it comes to like these next five years, like what like win total or like in general? Yeah. Like what do what do you think is the overall uh prediction that you’re going to get in the end here? I I’ll just go with every every other NBA fan out there and just say that they don’t really view the Wizards highly like other non- Wizards fans. So I say maybe at most 24 25 wins upcoming season and maybe in 3 to four years I see us making a championship run but just lay it on me Ben. What does it say? All right. Year number one 202526 season. It’s titled transition with veterans to steady the ship. Okay. So that’s some illusion there to CJ McCullum and Chris Middleton. There’s one fatal flaw uh that the AI does project here as part of this analysis, but I’m going to give it to you. Projected record 36 and 46. Wow. For the Washington Wizards per Chat GPT next year. And um you and I can both agree right now. Hopefully that’s not the case because that mean the Wizards would probably not be picking in the first round next year. That would not be ideal uh given the scenario that they have right now. I’m going to tell you why. It thinks they win 36 games. says that they miss playoffs but are competing uh for a late playin spot if people stay healthy. Chad GBT says Washington’s roster will remain young and experimental. Okay, I agree with that. That’s going to be something we’re going to see a lot. They’re going to be a lot of uh lineup changes throughout the year. The team keeps a mix of veterans, short-term veterans like here. This where you’re going to hear the main problem. CJ McCullum and Kelly Olen. Um Kelly Olen got traded. Okay, Kelly Olen is not part of the team. So, uh Chad TBT wrong. This is proof that you should not use AI to do all your schoolwork. Um, but says that these players like McCullum and we’re gonna we’re gonna replace Middleton there uh for where it says Elen are intended to stop gaps and mentors while young wings and bigs gain minutes. The front office prioritizes development and preserving cap flexibility for 2026. Well, I do agree with the premises that the team is going to be experimenting a lot with the lineups and these veterans are going to be simply here as a a piece that is used to help teach the tricks of the trade to a lot of these young guys. But 36 wins is insane. I think if they have a really strong season for their standard, they maybe get to 23 or 24 wins. 36 wins uh is absolutely ridiculous. That would probably set the franchise back unless Trey Johnson averages 30 points per game somehow in his rookie year. Bal suddenly averages 25 points and everyone turns into a juggernaut in one season. Uh that would probably be actually really bad uh for the future outlook of this team. I think they need to be a lotterybound team next year. Yeah. I mean I guess maybe AI is a optimistic Wizards fan. I mean 36 bro I was thinking at most at most maybe 30 if a lot of things go right. But that is a lot of wins and I’m interesting. I I’m intrigued to hear what they have next season because if they think this season, this upcoming season 36, I mean, we’re going to be contending in the playoffs, right? Next year. Yeah. So, I’ll get into that, but uh best player uh from the year in the rookie season of Trey Johnson. So, it says that they project him as a primary creator and he ends up leading the team in usage and becomes the clear offensive focal point. So, that’s interesting because I could totally see that happening eventually at some point in the season. Uh, if CJ McComem is dealt at the deadline, uh, maybe if we do see some Trey Johnson point guard minutes in favor of Bob Carrington at some point throughout the year, that’d be something that’ be really interesting to look at. Will he have a super high usage offensively? I think he will. It won’t be as high as it was at Texas in his freshman season in the SEC. Um, but I don’t think that’s that’s too far out of line really. Yeah, I I think that’s what we want to see and probably the most realistic thing out of coming out of this year first year or first year that AS predicting. I think Trey Johnson, we mentioned it, maybe that 15 to 20 game mark is where we’ll really see him be more uh involved in this offense because again, you have CJ McCullum here and what Will Dawkins loves to do is make sure he maximizes the trade value for his veterans. And Trey Johnson has a legit shot of winning of the year. been saying that before the draft and now that he’s a wizard, I think he can definitely go up against the likes of Ace Bailey and Cooper Flag. It all depends on what his usage will be and what we what we saw in Texas, amount of high volume shots he was taking compared to what he’s going to be dealt with with Washington. He’s definitely gonna have a smaller role, but I’m hoping that he can definitely transition to being that guard that can shoot it from three, take the mid-range shot, facilitate, and with guys like with younger guys like Keshan, Alexar, Bob Carrington, there’s just so many mouths to feed, but I’m hoping that he can learn from them. Another thing that I did mention is that Alex Sar improves uh tremendously defensively. Even though he already is a monster on defense, they have him becoming a 10 plus rebound per game guy with his rim presence. I like the sound of that. Yeah, I mean I really like to hear him rebounding the basketball. Well, and it it literally put in parenthese realistic development arcs uh for the former lottery pick in year number two. I really hope so. I do hope 10 rebounds is something that can become realistic and an expectation for a guy like Alex Rar because he needs to be much better on the glass whether it’s positioning or or just his physicality. That’s something that’s going to have to be better in year number two. Moving on to the 2026 27 season. since obviously the Wizards do not pick uh in the first round in that realm because they are not a lotterybound team. Moving forward, year two cap summer choices either star chase or draft first projected record 43 and 39 make the play in tournament or low seed playoff birth if the front office signs a mid-level star C below. So they put for the Y section, the big decision point in the 2026 offseason is because the team structured contracts to open large amounts of cap space uh in the following summer, which we know is going to be around $und00 million. This happened after the Jordan pool trade. Uh they face two incredible paths they can go here. You spend max or near max on a top free agent or use the cap to absorb contracts for additional picks or young talent. Now, I’m going with the second option. I think that’s the more likely scenario. That’s what I would want to see. I think we know the Wizards aren’t going to go out there next summer and all of a sudden bring in some big star in free agency. I don’t even have the list of guys that are going to be free agents next year. I think the class is going to be a little bit deeper uh in terms of free agent stars than it was in the previous season. But with that being said, that should not be the Wizards long-term plan. I don’t think you’re going out there uh and trying to sign a star player next year. I think if you know if we’re being realistic here, the second option it gave out, which is potentially taking on some more bad contracts to require assets, I think that’s the play for Washington. I agree with you. It does make sense. I think bringing in a superstar, first of all, does a superstar want to come to DC right now, maybe in a couple years when we have attractive commodities, it wouldn’t make sense because again, you bring in a ball a big guy that could definitely hinder the development of a lot of these young guys. And like you mentioned, we want to bring in those vets to get get those draft picks. Well, Dawkins loves accumulating as much capital as he can. So, that does make sense. You met what was it? You said 42 43 wins. That’s 43 wins. Man, again, like this for the last time this Wizards team won. Wait, have we we’ve won 50 games before? It was a long or no, we haven’t. We haven’t won 50 games since 1979. Okay. So, when we won the championship, okay, so again with the the the days of John and Brad, I think the highest we got to 49. Okay. 49 and 33 in 2017. And then last time Okay. Yeah. So maybe I think realistically to the 2026 2027 season is when potentially we could hit that 30 win mark. 30 plus. I’m hoping. We’ll just have to see. Yeah, I think you’re right. I think maybe they they get around 30 wins uh in the next season. 30 to 35 would be great. Ultimately, you want them to be much more competitive. They don’t really have anything that hangs over their head that says that they need to be in this kind of ethical tank or whatever you want to call it in the next season. But one thing that is uh really, you know, pleasurable to uh see from the AI and the prediction is that Trey Johnson becomes an all-star caliber player in his second year and he’s unquestionably the best player on the team overall. That I think can totally happen and I think ultimately that probably is what happens. Yeah. So hey, a lot of praise for Trey Johnson from the AI and uh you just maybe chat GBT knows know some ball right there. That’s why we focused yesterday on Trey Johnson, our episode. So, be sure to go check that out if you haven’t. Yesterday’s episode, what if Trey Johnson becomes the cornerstone piece for this Washington Wizards team? Uh, at the end of the year, it says the key roster moves that are predicted. One mid-level trade to upgrade defensively, uh, swap expiring veterans plus pick for young two-ways that could play off the wing, and then one rookie from the draft class that would, uh, come up in that year. And then potentially another big free agent sign because of the flexibility the team likely will have uh in the 2027 offseason says that it should set the team up to be very competitive in the following season. For drafting, it says that if they choose development path uh they could take a top 20 pick in the 2026 draft or rather 2027, excuse me. Uh use that on defensive wing or forward if they spent uh the pick could remain in the late first round. So the caveat is the season hinges on the 2026 cap choices. So whatever they decision they make in the off seasonason after the year upcoming right now will kind of dictate what happens for years to come. But I think if the Wizards play their cards right and they do the smart decision, uh it’s probably they hold off on trying to spend any money in free agency for at least another year or two. Do they say anything about Bal? Does not say anything about Bal. Cool. Bali. Oh, is that is that a sign? I don’t know if it’s a sign of anything, but you know, the AI like they can’t really get too too specific and all that stuff. I think if I wanted it to like give me every single player stats for the year, it probably could have done that. 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Year number three, either playoff depth or loaded with young talent is the title of this year. Projected record 47 and 35 with a projected six seed in the Eastern Conference with a very competitive first round series possibly an upset. Now, AB, that’s what the projected AI model has. If the Wizards choose to be aggressive uh in the following off season and they do draft well and they are able to acquire another star level player in free agency, it does say if they are still building, Italy predicts them to win 39 games at that point. So, I think if we got to 2027 and the team was still below 500, I think Wizards fans would be really really impatient to that point. Yeah. No. There’s no way we’re still using the P word in 2027 because that’s just unexcusable. I think this is the last year we’ll give a justification card for losing. But I’m hoping that like with honestly that year I expect either one of the guys out of the 2024 draft class to be an all-star definitely by then. I expect Trey Johnson to be the best scorer on this team and maybe they get a guy from the 2026 draft. Debonsza, Darren Peterson, Native Met, Boozer, a lot of options there. And I’m hoping by then that we we see the key core here in Washington. We kind of see, you know, glimpses every now and then, but there’s still a lot of guys that need to take their strides, but by then we should figure out like, oh, these is the this is the guy and these is the supporting cast around him. So, one thing that has been a constant throughout this uh AI model of the rebuild and continues throughout this year is that Trey Johnson continues to blossom into a star player for the Wizards according to this model uh in this season, the 202728 season. Predicted here, Trey Johnson is an allNBA player. AllNBA list for Trey Johnson three years into his career according uh to Chad GBT. It’s It’s a bit bold. It’s definitely a bit bold. I can’t lie. That is That is bold because that’s like that’s year three for him. So, hey, I I love that. Shout out to Chad GBT if we can see that happen. But that’s huge huge expectations for our guy Trey. I’m hoping by year three he could be an all-star AllNBA. That that’s that’s something else. I mean, when’s the last time was it John that was the last AllNBA player that we’ve had? Uh Beal. Okay. Beal made it but he was he was like what third? Beal was third. Wall was also third. Oh, okay. Okay. So, we haven’t we haven’t sniffed a second or first team. Yeah, you’re telling me Kusman never made a a second or first. No, I’m joking. But Oh, man. What a snub. Yeah, I know. I think uh Trey definitely because there’s so much potential or and hype going into his rookie year that I expect him to take that stride. I don’t again year three being all NBA, that’s a lot of expectations, but out of all guys that we’ve seen coming to DC, this is a guy that can definitely fulfill them. So now with the Wizards ultimately uh making a six seed in the playoffs according to AI if they choose to be aggressive in this season. It says he expect the Wizards to be aggressive and in a win now mode and make rotation tweaks. So the Wizards would trade for uh trade a veteran expiring for a high quality 3 and D wing mid-season to improve spacing. Uh, so I’m not sure if this is factoring Keshan George part of the equation because I feel like he could be a fantastic 3 and D level player for this team come that time. Uh, Bal, if he’s able to develop that jump shot, could also be in that role. Uh, but Keshan is a guy that I think like you could have a lot of confidence going forward for the future that he could be a 3 and D level player that either comes off your bench or starts in that role for this team. Uh, I’m not sure if the AI is even accounting for that in this situation, but it does have the Wizards being aggressive, uh, signing short deals to maintain cost control and possibly ressigning their own young pieces on reasonable extensions, including Alex Sar, Trey Johnson, and then also Bal Koulibali, uh, according to this as well. So, this would be a couple years after Bal’s rookie deal is already done. So, I guess this anticipated that Bal is brought back and then extended again. So, that’s interesting. That’s that’s some type of prediction right there. I don’t know if I don’t know if the AI is kind of just getting confused by like looking through who’s on the roster uh and stuff like that, but you never know. May maybe the AI has some sort of vision for what happens with Koulabali uh in the future here as a I mean by that point he would be wow like five five or six years into his career at that point. Yeah. And going back to the 3 and D I’m hoping Keshan George could be that guy but maybe Will Riley a guy that steps up and develops into that role. I think Kim Whitmore if he can fulfill offense be consistent offensively and maybe defensively turn it up a notch. He can be that starting three that we’ve been talking about taking Bal’s role. We’ll just have to see because they’re going to be battling each other out. That’s a cam battle that I’ve been we’ve been talking about recent episode. So, we’ll just have to see how that pans out. But I’m excited, Ben. I think this is this is awesome you got AI doing this and I’m hoping that the Trey Johnson thing is right because I’d love to see that come year three. Yeah, we got three years down, two years to go. We give you those final two of the AI Wizards experiment here on Lockdown Wizards [Music] 2028 year four. The title of this one AB results season results results from the rebuild. We’ll be what, 25, Ben? 26. Hopefully I’ I’ve gotten married by then. Projected record 49 and 33. So they still don’t get to 50 wins in that year. They they match the same record from 2017. So wow, that was a 2016 2017 season as well. So that’s 12 years after that year. They finally get back uh to a record of 49 and 33 playoffs including an appearance in the second round. So that’s the same spot they got to in 2017. This is the year the investment shows return. If the team picked the aggressive path and the star plus young core gel, if the build path was chosen, then the team would be 44 and 38 uh pushing to make a playin game and possibly win in the first round. However, I do feel like they would be much more aggressive at this point. Uh you know, we’re talking four years down the road uh from right now. I think the Wizards are going to find out in the next year or so who really uh from their young core is going to be solidified and they’re going to try to find the ancillary pieces uh that fit into the timeline of making this team competitive, you know, 3 to four years from now. So, I feel like that prediction from the AI uh you know, I do expect them to be aggressive. I don’t expect them to be as aggressive as it does predict in the next off seasonason, but a couple years down the road, I think you could totally see the Wizards uh make some really key moves to to pair some guys alongside uh potential all-star players like Trey Johnson, like Alexar, maybe Cam Whitmore in the future as well. I I I really do like uh some of the ideas that the AI has had here. And I’m not trying to gas it up or say any of this is fully realistic, but I think some of the, you know, the focal points that we’ve seen from the model make a lot of sense for what we see the Wizards could do. And it gives you maybe some optimism for how you could look at this timeline here. I think by then, Ben, you want to make that Donovan Mitchell or Male Bridges trade type move when you want to get that guy that can put you over the hump because in the Eastern Conference, like you mentioned, we have the Knicks, the Celtics, the Pistons, the some there’s probably some teams right now they’re on the bottom that could potentially make it to the top by then. So, you want to again pair a guy like Trey Johnson with someone that will put you over the top. And who knows by then who that guy will be. I I I like how you mentioned that AI did have some nice concepts about when it comes to when this team should be aggressive and again like you mentioned not winning 50 games. It’s still it still hurts a little bit because we want to break we want to you know finally get rid of that knot but at the end of the day like as long as the team is trying to be competitive I because the last time we went to a conference championship was 1979 right? So they they have to break that streak within these five years because I I I’ve been saying this whole episode the P word will not be hold that much value in that in that time. So year number five. So you you know we wanted to see that 50 win season. We finally get it here. A contender with a young core matured is the title of the season. 52 and 30 the projected record for the Washington Wizards. an Eastern Conference playoff appearance with a three seed. So, damn, 52 wins and they’ll be the three seed. Must be a stacked Eastern Conference that year. Um, contention to play in the Eastern Conference Finals. I mean, wow. Like, finally, we we get a prediction where we’re in the Eastern Conference Finals. I will take that any day if that if that can actually happen at some point because I’ve never seen this team uh play in the Eastern Conference Finals. This is 2020 2028, right? We haven’t seen them in the in the conference finals since 79 AB. Yeah. Unbelievable. But it says that they stayed patient. They built via the draft and they hit with a solid young core and were able to uh use some aggressive flexibility moves to find pieces that make sense alongside the young core. And they’re able to make a deep playoff run as a result. best player from this season, Trey Johnson continues to mature into a allNBA wing. Uh 2026 star podium player uh if they sign somebody from the free agent class, but he says by this year, one of the young core the young core is elite and also finds another dependable allstar player or other role players uh that fit into the timeline with the young core. So to me that kind of makes a lot of sense. Maybe. Yeah, at least we break the curse. We make the conference championship, win 50 plus games. Now, winning a championship in itself is we’ll probably have to do another five years, Ben, when it comes to AI. But I’m hoping that some of this stuff, the concepts like I mentioned is right. I want Tre Johnson to be that number one guy here in DC, that superstar, the all star caliber player, and make sure that you get a core, a key core around him, a 3 and D guy, a center that can box out, get rebounds, become a defensive menace. and Bub Carrington being that point guard of the future, it’s just a lot of things have to go right for this to happen. But with the guys that we have and the strides that they have taken this past year, and I’m hoping of it, I think we’ll be just fine. So, here are the in short uh five things the AI lists as specific realistic predictions. Uh the pool for McCullum and a Linux style move pays off strategically because of the financial flexibility. Uh they free up in terms of cap space in the 2026 off season. Number two, Trey Johnson becomes the franchise centerpiece. Hey, that alludes to what we talked about yesterday. What if it happens? Well, AI says that it’s going to happen. He’s going to be a player that averages over 25 points per game and is an on andoff engine. Uh, according to chat GPT, uh, at least one win now external signing or one blockbuster deadline deal. I totally think this is a possibility. Uh, if the team indeed finds uh, who is solidified as its young core in the future. Number four, the Wizards will be back as a legitimate playoff team by the fourth year, 2028. I sure hope so. I really, really hope so. I mean, ideally, you’d like to see it happen even earlier than that, but you never know. Way earlier, please. Well, it says legitimate playoff team. So, I guess by legitimate, remember Will Dawkins said uh when he came to DC, they want to build a team that is competing for top seed in the Eastern Conference year in year out. They don’t want to be a in the playoffs one year, non in it one year. they want to be a perpetual contender. So maybe that’s kind of what the AI is alluding to here. And then the fifth one, they’ll preserve cap flexibility in 2026 and either spend it on a top 10 free agent or use it to uh acquire trade assets or picks. So I feel like uh the latter is what we see there. Yeah. No shortcuts. That’s what Will Dawkins always talks about. He wants to make sure that he’s not doing what the previous regimes did, which was like you mentioned, make the playoffs one year, not make it the next, and just not being contender at all. So, I like the plan and I’m hoping it comes into fruition. Here’s something that the AI also offered at the end. Says, “How realistic it is? Here are the risks and wild cards.” And this is interesting. I can actually appreciate this. The top one, ownership appetite. If ownership wants immediate results and spends big in 2026 that probably accelerates a playoff window, but reduces a long-term window in flexibility. Yeah, as we said, no shortcuts. We don’t want to see this team fall into a meddled part of mediocrity that it was once in uh for a large portion of the 2010s or the late 2010s into the early 2020s. We do not want to see uh this organization get stuck in mediocrity again. So I am I am all out on that AB. When it comes to ownership, Ben, I know this is quick. I’ve talked about this in the past before, but if I’m Ted Leonsis, I know that Alex Ovetkin is going to retire soon and the Caps are going to be rebuilding. And I don’t want both teams to be rebuilding at the same time. One of them has to be contending. And I think he’s going to in his mind, yo, Will, like if it’s a year or two down the road and we’re still there’s no improvement. Like, what are we doing here, man? Yeah. Another thing it mentions, injuries to young core, always the biggest variable. Yeah, that’s an obvious one. If guys get hurt, then obviously that’ll throw a huge wrench into your plan. But hopefully you see health for a lot of these guys. That’s something that we’ve been preaching we need to see from a lot of different guys. Got to see everyone play uh adequate amount of minutes, be on the floor, be available. Uh so that’s going to be a big thing. And then the front office moves. A change in general manager or coach would shift the trajectories really quick. We might see a head coaching change at some point throughout this process if the Wizards do feel they need another coach uh to get them over the hump. that they feel like Brian Keefe does his job development-wise. Uh, but that’s really a topic for another day. Overall, I’d say these predictions from the AI were relatively optimistic, but I don’t hate a lot of what it said. I think it gave some pretty potentially realistic scenarios uh for this Wizards team. And you know, some of the ideas that have been presented, I think it’s stealing a lot of uh information probably on the internet for what Will Dawkins has said because a lot of it actually does align partially with what the vision has been set from this organization. So, I do like to see that and hopefully some of the things including Trey Johnson becoming the cornerstone piece. Yeah, hopefully that does become the um the the reality for this situation. Shout out AI. This was definitely a fun episode, Ben. One thing for sure is that at least they have confidence or AI has confidence as much as we do with Trey Johnson and I’m hoping that he becomes the all premier caliber player that he we think he can be. Absolutely. This was a fun one. Uh you know, if you guys want to go do it yourself, let us know the results. Just go into the chat GBT, just ask it. Do a five-year Wizards predict prediction. You can have it customized to do whatever. If you want to get even more into the nitty-gritty than I did with player details and asking it to give you stats and splits for every player, I’m sure it probably could do that. Maybe we’ll re revisit this at some point uh and see uh how the AI predicted model turns out. Maybe we’ll do an episode 5 years from now AB and we’ll we’ll look back at these predictions. What if they were spot on? What if they were completely spot on? That would be crazy, wouldn’t it? Yeah, that would be that would be something. But that’ll do it for us today here on Lockdown Wizards. Thank you for making Lockdown Wizards your first listen. For your second, be sure to check out the Lockdown NBA Top 100 because it is here right now. Voted on by the NBA host of the Lockdown Podcast Network. 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We had some fun on Locked On Wizards today. With the season approaching, we figured, let’s make some predictions, but with a twist…Today, we had ChatGPT predict a future outlook for the Wizards. The results are….interesting.

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