The Washington Wizards on Thursday announced a celebration of John Wall\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n
Wall\u2019s legacy will be celebrated on Jan. 29 during Washington\u2019s game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Capital One Arena. The first 15,000 fans will receive John Wall bobbleheads.<\/p>\n
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The contest will be broadcasted in Prime Video, where Wall serves as an NBA analyst.<\/p>\n
The Wizards teased a video Thursday of Wall\u2019s iconic shot in Game 6 of the 2017 playoffs to propel the Wizards of the Boston Celtics and force a Game 7, which led many fans to speculate the team might retire Wall\u2019s No. 2 jersey.<\/p>\n
But for now, it appears Jan. 29\u2019s celebration won\u2019t include hoisting Wall\u2019s jersey into the rafters.<\/p>\n
Wall, 35, was selected by Washington with the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and spent nine seasons in D.C.<\/p>\n
He led the Wizards to four playoff berths and advanced to the second round three times, with the farthest run coming in 2017 when Washington lost in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n
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Wall\u2019s Wizards resume is a decorated one:<\/p>\n
Franchise leader in assists (5,282) and steals (976)<\/p>\n
Averaged 19.2 points and 9.0 assists for Washington<\/p>\n
Wall\u2019s most iconic moment in a Wizards uniform came in Game 6 of the 2017 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics, when, with just 3.5 seconds remaining, he rose up and sunk a go-ahead 3-pointer to give Washington a 92-91 lead. The Wizards won that game to keep their season alive, and after the final buzzer, Wall climbed onto the scorer\u2019s table and pointed down, saying, \u201cThis is my city.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wall\u2019s best season in Washington came during the 2016-17 campaign, in which he earned All-NBA Third Team honors after averaging 23.1 points and 10.7 assists per game. Wall finished 7th in MVP voting that year and made his fourth All-Star game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards on Thursday announced a celebration of John Wall\u2019s legacy. Wall\u2019s legacy will be celebrated on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,75,2848,1916,121,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-526366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-eastern-conference-semifinals","11":"tag-john-wall","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-wizards","16":"tag-washingtonwizards","17":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115863041065803182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526366","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=526366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}