After signing in the capital in the summer of 2021, the experience did not go as planned for Spencer Dinwiddie. The current Nets point guard returned to his failed stint in Washington by explaining that the franchise had no specific goal at the start of the season, and that the team was without identity with only a stack of individual talents. As a reminder, the Wizards had just traded Russell Westbrook to the Lakers for Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Montrezl Harrell.
“We had Rui Hachimura who was coming back from a difficult personal situation. Deni Avdija was supposed to follow in the footsteps of Luka Doncic, you have Bradley Beal who is the franchise player and then you have the Lakers guys coming in and wanting to assert themselves away from LeBron… People who play for contracts, all that … » detailed Spencer Dinwiddie. “It was a situation where I was like, ‘What do we do?’ ».
A number 2 role behind Bradley Beal
If the situation on the floor was bad, the atmosphere off the field was just as bad with many rumors about his role in the team which annoyed Spencer Dinwiddie. As a result, he only played 44 games with Washington before being traded to Dallas during the season, and we remember that no one regretted his departure…
“I thought I was going to find myself in a situation where I was going to play the role of number 2 alongside Bradley Beal, where Brad was going to put his 30 points and where we were going to try to put all the pieces of the puzzle together to try to win “ sued Spencer Dinwiddie. “That’s what I was told and that’s what I intended to do. But then, when the rumors started going around, they were saying I wanted to lead the team… And then I was like, ‘Seriously, I didn’t even sign here for this’”.
Two years later, the Wizards still haven’t moved on. Rui Hachimura, 9th pick of the 2019 Draft, was traded to the Lakers for a pittance. With the departures of Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Kyle Kuzma is now the only survivor of the Russell Westbrook trade.
| Spencer Dinwiddie | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2014-15 | TED | 34 | 13 | 30.2 | 18.5 | 91.2 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 4.3 |
| 2015-16 | TED | 12 | 13 | 35.2 | 10.0 | 57.6 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| 2016-17 | BRK | 59 | 23 | 44.4 | 37.6 | 79.2 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 7.3 |
| 2017-18 | BRK | 80 | 29 | 38.7 | 32.6 | 81.3 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 12.6 |
| 2018-19 | BRK | 68 | 28 | 44.2 | 33.5 | 80.6 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 16.8 |
| 2019-20 | BRK | 64 | 31 | 41.5 | 30.8 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 20.6 |
| 2020-21 | BRK | 3 | 21 | 37.5 | 28.6 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 6.7 |
| 2021-22 * | All Teams | 67 | 30 | 41.6 | 33.9 | 77.4 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 13.7 |
| 2021-22 * | WAS | 44 | 30 | 37.6 | 31.0 | 81.1 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 12.6 |
| 2021-22 * | DAL | 23 | 28 | 49.8 | 40.4 | 72.5 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 15.8 |
| 2022-23 * | All Teams | 71 | 35 | 44.6 | 37.9 | 81.5 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 6.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 17.8 |
| 2022-23 * | DAL | 53 | 34 | 45.5 | 40.5 | 82.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 17.7 |
| 2022-23 * | BRK | 18 | 36 | 42.2 | 29.9 | 80.0 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 8.4 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 18.0 |
| Total | 458 | 28 | 41.8 | 33.4 | 79.5 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 5.2 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 13.8 | |
