{"id":832709,"date":"2026-09-11T02:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/832709\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:21:16","slug":"top-wizards-on-rookie-contracts-ahead-of-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/832709\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Wizards On Rookie Contracts Ahead of 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star center revealed that he is now <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/nba\/wizards\/players\/wizards-alex-sarr-reveals-positive-injury-update-prior-to-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out of a walking boot<\/a> after undergoing offseason surgery for a fractured right foot, an injury sustained during a contact play during workouts. That&#8217;s good news for Sarr, who rose to stardom in 2025-26 and made his case for the best player to come out of the 2024 NBA Draft. The French big man improved in every statistical category from year one to year two, becoming one of two players to average two blocks per game, though injuries limited him to just 48 games. Sarr teams up with Anthony Davis to give the Wizards an imposing defensive frontcourt, but he&#8217;s already shown signs of being the star center the team needs long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star center revealed that he is now out of a walking boot after undergoing offseason surgery for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-832709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117250023996395429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832709","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=832709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}