{"id":314586,"date":"2025-10-01T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:42:15","slug":"the-wizards-are-younger-but-bigger-to-start-the-2025-26-nba-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314586\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizards are younger but bigger to start the 2025-26 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Yesterday, the Washington Wizards held Media Day at CareFirst Arena which is adjacaent to the joint Monumnetal Basketball Practice Facility. A lot of the Wizards\u2019 younger players are coming into camp bigger than ever. Literally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As one of the youngest teams in the NBA, this shouldn\u2019t be surprising. With a young roster, players haven\u2019t filled in their frames yet. Some players, most notably Alex Sarr, have shown promise as a shot alterer in 2024-25. Since he has put on 20 pounds since last season, perhaps that will help him build a more physical presence as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, the Washington Wizards held Media Day at CareFirst Arena which is adjacaent to the joint Monumnetal Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[4008,979,7,2644,6333,50566,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-314586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-aj-johnson","9":"tag-alex-sarr","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bub-carrington","12":"tag-kyshawn-george","13":"tag-monumnetal-basketball-practice-facility","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-wizards","17":"tag-washingtonwizards","18":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115298025084024697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}