Juju Reese\u2019s NBA career looked to be far from a sure thing. But in the last week, he has exploded onto the scene, nearly recording a double-double on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In his second NBA start in two days, Reese played 33 minutes in the Washington Wizards\u2019 126-109 loss to the Orlando Magic. Reese shot 4-of-6 from the field and 1-of-4 from the free throw line to finish with nine points, eight rebounds, three assists, one turnover and three fouls in 33 minutes of play.<\/p>\n
The former Maryland men\u2019s basketball player went undrafted in the 2025 NBA Draft. After spending the summer with the Los Angeles Lakers and much of the G-League season with the Toronto Raptors\u2019 affiliate team, Reese was traded to the Wizards and signed to a two-way contract.<\/p>\n
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Reese became the first Wizards rookie to debut by starting a non-season opener since at least the 1976-77 ABA-NBA merger.<\/p>\n
On Monday, he had three steals, the third-most by a center in their NBA debut ever. He finished his 28 minutes of playing time with two points, four rebounds, three steals, four turnovers and six fouls.<\/p>\n
With star big man Anthony Davis shut down for the season, center Alex Sarr considered week-to-week due to injury, and forwards Tristan Vukcevic and Anthony Gill day-to-day with injuries, opportunities for Reese will likely continue through the final six weeks of the regular season.<\/p>\n
In other news<\/p>\n
Maryland women\u2019s basketball is headed to the Big Ten Tournament, and Ben Messinger recapped the season so far.<\/a> The Terps also had four players named All-Big Ten honorees. Max Schaeffer had the story.<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Maryland tennis has surged up the rankings both as individuals and as a team.<\/p>\n Maryland men\u2019s basketball took a look at four-star class of 2028 forward Xavier Skipworth.<\/p>\n Maryland baseball\u2019s Bud Coombs is ranked among the nation\u2019s best as a hitter early in the season.<\/p>\n Former Maryland football star Dick Absher died Feb. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juju Reese\u2019s NBA career looked to be far from a sure thing. But in the last week, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[495,10685,7,18348,150,987,6,76,476,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-638799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-anthony-davis","tag-anthony-gill","tag-basketball","tag-julian-reese","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-maryland","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116170980432963577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638799","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=638799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}