Washington Wizards 2025-26 NBA Betting Lines
It would be difficult to find a pro sports franchise that is more hopelessly inept than the Washington Wizards. Washington has failed to win more than 18 games in the past two seasons, badly damaging its brand with gamblers. The Wizards have zero appeal on the future market, and gamblers target them as a team to oppose in individual matchups. Since the 2018-19 season, the Washington Wizards have only one playoff appearance (2021) and no prospects of that status changing in the immediate future. The Wizards are coming off their second consecutive season of more than 60 losses and have not been a serious contender in almost a decade. With no scoring ability and with a defense that doesn’t defend, it is hard to cover the spread, even with inflated underdog prices. On the positive side, Washington had a productive summer, and that offseason performance could be a sign that the worst is behind them.
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Team Overview
The Washington Wizards' final regular season record was 18-64 straight up, 34-47-1 against the spread, and 40-40 over/under the total. Washington was 15th in the Eastern Conference playoff standings, 46 games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Washington's NBA metrics were 27th for scoring offense, 28th for field goal percentage, 29th for 3-point field goal percentage, 16th for free throw percentage, and 17th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Wizards' metrics were 29th for scoring defense, 19th for field goal percentage permitted, 20th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 30th for defensive rebounding.
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Off-Season Moves for 2025-26
Key additions: Tre Johnson, Cam Whitmore, CJ McCollum
Key subtractions: Jordan Poole, Marcus Smart, Saddiq Bey
The Wizards entered the offseason with the league's second-worst record, one win better than the Utah Jazz, and somehow fell to the No. 6 overall pick. They still scored Tre Johnson, who impressed in the summer league. They also took a flier on Cam Whitmore, an under-utilized talent on the Houston Rockets, and all it cost them was a couple of second-round draft picks. Add Johnson and Whitmore to a young core that now includes Alex Sarr, Bilal Coulibaly, and Bub Carrington, among other recent first-round draft picks.
Additionally, the Wizards shed $77.5 million worth of Jordan Poole and Saddiq Bey in favor of CJ McCollum's $30.7 million expiring salary, bringing in one of the league's most respected veterans and opening up even more salary cap space for next summer. Finally, they are doing smart things in Washington, at least for now.
A series of trades cleaned up Washington's books for massive cap space in summer 2026 while also taking low-cost bets on recent first-round picks. Including this year's picks, Tre Johnson and Will Riley, the Wizards now have an incredible 10 players drafted in the first round since 2023. Corey Kispert is the only veteran Washington has under contract for 2026-27, meaning the Wizards could have $80 million in cap space after trading Poole for CJ McCollum's expiring contract.
Key Players
PF Alex Sarr was the second overall pick of the 2024 NBA Draft by Washington out of the Perth Wildcats. Sarr did not play college ball. Sarr was named to the 2025 NBA All-Rookie First Team after averaging 13.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.
The Wizards took SG Tre Johnson 6th overall in the 2025 NBA draft out of Texas, where he played only one season, averaging 19.9 points per game.
Head Coach
Brian Keefe had been a career NBA assistant since 2007. Keefe was named permanent coach after going 8-31in 2025 as the interim coach and will remain for the upcoming season. Things might marginally improve under Keefe in the upcoming season, as he has a better roster to work with.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 7)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2024–25 |
82 |
18 |
64 |
5th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
15 |
67 |
5th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
35 |
47 |
3rd, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
35 |
47 |
4th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
34 |
38 |
3rd, Southeast |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (76ers) |
| 2019–20 |
72 |
25 |
47 |
3rd, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
32 |
50 |
4th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
Washington Wizards History
The Washington Wizards have a pretty interesting history. They were the first expansion franchise in the NBA, joining the league as the Chicago Packers in 1961. They had NBA Rookie of the Year Walt Bellamy in their first season, but they only managed to win 18 games. The team changed its name to the Zephyrs the following year, but that didn’t improve its record or attendance much, so the franchise relocated and became the Baltimore Bullets.
A change of scenery wasn’t immediately beneficial to the franchise. The Baltimore Bullets went seven years without finishing over .500, but that allowed the team to draft star players. They selected Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe as the No. 2 overall pick in the 1967 NBA Draft, and they followed that up by taking Wes Unseld, No. 2 in the 1968 NBA Draft. Monroe and Unseld immediately led the franchise to a 57-25 record in their first season together, and they went on to make the NBA Finals in 1971 and 1975. Unfortunately, they lost in both of those NBA Finals appearances.
This franchise made another move during its halcyon years. The Bullets became the Capital Bullets in 1973 and then changed their name to the Washington Bullets the following year. They continued to be very competitive and finally broke through in 1978. Thanks to Unseld and Elvin Hayes, the Washington Bullets beat the Seattle Supersonics in a seven-game series to win the NBA Finals. They faced Seattle in a rematch the following year, but the Supersonics were too much.
Washington has not advanced to the conference finals since 1979. The franchise has won just five playoff series since 1979, and it hasn’t won 50 or more games in a season since then, either. It changed its name to the Washington Wizards in 1997, but that’s about the only thing it has done of note. This has been an absolutely moribund franchise for over 40 years, and it doesn’t look like things are getting better anytime soon.
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