00:00The Wiz played tonight, right?
00:02Yeah.
00:03The Wiz are in Cleveland this evening,
00:06and they've now listed A.J. DeBonta as questionable to play tonight.
00:11He hasn't played yet.
00:13This is game five, right?
00:14Yeah, rolled his ankle on October 16th.
00:16So this is, you know, we're...
00:18He doesn't play tonight.
00:19People are going to start asking questions.
00:20Like, is it more serious than you are saying?
00:23This is a rolled ankle.
00:25I think...
00:26I don't know if you agree with me.
00:28I don't know if people agree with me.
00:30I'd rather he make his debut at home Friday night.
00:34I don't really care the way he makes the debut,
00:37because when he comes home, people are going to be there.
00:40Sure.
00:40Whether it's the first game or the second game,
00:43I just think I want to see him on the court and starting to play,
00:46getting better.
00:46If he's healthy, go.
00:48I think if we get to your point about when people will start asking questions,
00:52I think if he doesn't go tonight or Friday,
00:55and then it's dragging to next Monday,
00:58I think people would start asking questions.
00:59Like, you know, you said this was just a mild ankle sprain.
01:02Now it's been three weeks.
01:04I may be wrong on that,
01:06but I want AJ to make his debut at home tomorrow night.
01:10That is my priority.
01:13Stallion Jeffrey, do you care home or road for AJ?
01:16I want to see him make his debut at home.
01:19Yes.
01:19What difference does it make, though?
01:21Seriously.
01:21I mean, it's...
01:22If he's at home on the road, it's like we have these feelings these days about
01:26make the debut.
01:28He's playing the game, and you want to win it on the road or at home too, right?
01:32No.
01:32The NBA has so many games.
01:34I don't even...
01:35But my thing is...
01:36I want the pop.
01:37When he comes, the pop would be him busting somebody's ass on their court.
01:41That would be pop for me.
01:43Agreed with that.
01:43But, like, we all think back to John Wall when he came out at Capcom Arena.
01:47Man, and you know what?
01:48He did the duggy.
01:49We didn't win no damn championships.
01:50I know.
01:50We worry about the wrong damn stuff.
01:53Can we all have the phones on that?
01:54I think that's a fun phones.
01:56800-636-1067.
01:58I know I'm wrecking the rundown.
01:59I don't care.
02:00800-636-1067.
02:02Sally just puts the same topics on the rundown.
02:04Okay.
02:04SC?
02:06What's SC?
02:07Hey, you think about it.
02:09I'll think about it.
02:12You know what I'm talking about.
02:14How I write.
02:16B wants him to play when he's ready to play.
02:18I want them to wait and let him play Friday night.
02:20Stallion votes with me.
02:22Jeffrey, where are you?
02:23I'm with you, JP.
02:24Let's go.
02:26We've been waiting for someone to come to the Wizards.
02:28I just think, you know, it's something for the fans.
02:31You know?
02:32You got to.
02:33Let him debut at home.
02:36This is what the fans want to see.
02:38I guarantee you if they say he's playing Friday, Cap 1 will sell out by Thursday.
02:43And if they say he's playing tonight in Cleveland, I think the TV's a blow up, too.
02:47Yeah, everyone will be excited.
02:49But it's just, it's the feeling, B.
02:52It's an opportunity to bring the city together.
02:56The city will go crazy.
02:57It will go crazy.
02:59I also think.
03:08It won't go crazy.
03:13I'm not saying that.
03:15If they didn't, like, listen, if they had a four-game road trip or something, I wouldn't
03:20be making this argument.
03:21But if it's played a night in Cleveland or Friday, make your debut at home.
03:25But if he's 100% ready to go tonight, you say don't let him play?
03:29Give him a little more rest.
03:30What else does that make?
03:31I mean, I don't understand this mindset, dude.
03:34If he's ready to play and a basketball player and athletes want to play, let his ass play.
03:39I do think there's some of, if you consider me, Jeff, and Stallion, never played professional
03:50sports, and you did, maybe it's a mindset thing.
03:52Like, you're ready when you're ready and you get out there.
03:54Yes.
03:55You ask AJ, when do you want to play?
03:58I guarantee he wants to play when he's ready.
04:00When I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go.
04:02Don't you think DeBonsa wanted to play two games ago?
04:06Probably so, but he ain't going to say, well, I want to make sure it's going to be at home
04:09before I play.
04:10I'm curious where the fans are on this.
04:13800-636-1067.
04:16When do you want DeBonsa to make his debut?
04:19We'll let White Bryant chime in, assuming he's made it off Main Avenue.
04:23Bryant?
04:24Yeah.
04:24Yeah, he should play.
04:25If he's healthy, he should play.
04:27He should get, like, 20 minutes, and then when they come home, he can be a full go.
04:31There you go, Bryant.
04:32I like Bryant's, man.
04:34Bryant's always say the right stuff.
04:35Bryant's stick together.
04:36Until he starts cheering for his blue teams.
04:38I tweeted out, like, a second ago, so we got, like, 50 votes right now.
04:43When do you want AJ DeBonsa to make his debut?
04:46I tried to make this fair.
04:47The options are ASAP or do it at home.
04:50Right now, it's 55 ASAP, 45, do it at home.
04:54I don't know where people are on that one.
04:58Shane's calling in.
04:59Shane, when do you want AJ to go?
05:02Oh, there's JP.
05:03Good morning, B-Mitch.
05:04Hey, guys.
05:05Good morning.
05:06Hey, look.
05:07I would B-Mitch.
05:08I wouldn't play whenever he's ready.
05:09I mean, I don't want him to rush this injury, either.
05:12We don't know how bad it is, right?
05:13So, whenever the man's ready, let's get him to the court.
05:16Let's not rush.
05:17Our problem in D.C., we always want to rush our athletes when they're not ready, and that's
05:22when it goes down the hill, right?
05:24Like the John Wall.
05:25Any injuries we get, let's go ahead and call.
05:27This town does not do pretty good with injuries.
05:30So, let's just take our time.
05:31The kid's young.
05:33He's a baller.
05:33We've already seen that.
05:35Let's just take our time, and let's just let this man get out there when he's ready to get
05:38out there and ball out.
05:39Right now, hey, look.
05:40The Wizards right now are looking pretty good right now.
05:43Let's call it what it is.
05:44Hey, this may be a rebirth of AD out here coming and getting it live.
05:50So, let's go.
05:52Yeah, I mean, it will be fun, man.
05:54I don't know how it's all going to...
05:58I'll say this.
06:00For Shane's concern about just wait until he's ready, obviously, I agree with that.
06:06The way this organization is being run now, Michael Winger, Will Dawkins, like, they're
06:12not pushing him, period.
06:16And you don't go through three years of tanking to push the number one pick early in a regular
06:22season game in the NBA.
06:23Yeah.
06:24Like, I don't have that concern that they're trying to get him out there fast.
06:28I mean, if it's just a sprain, when he's ready, go.
06:33And, dude, in hoops...
06:34He's a 19-year-old, not a 40-year-old.
06:36Right.
06:37You know what I'm saying?
06:37Yeah.
06:38That thing heals quicker than the others.
06:39Arnold in Upper Marlboro.
06:41When do you want AJ to play?
06:45All right.
06:46We'll see you in Moussa real quick.
06:48Moussa is in Arlington.
06:49Moussa, when do you want AJ to play?
06:52Hey, guys.
06:53Thanks for taking the call, always.
06:55I like to see him tonight, but here's the thing.
06:57I think the reason it's taking longer than anticipated, he's got, I believe, a high ankle
07:02sprain.
07:03You know, the high ankle sprains, those are the ones that tend to linger a little bit
07:06longer, you know, on recoveries as far as him getting in.
07:09I want him to be healthy.
07:11Yeah, I mean, if it's a high ankle sprain, I don't think they said it was a high ankle
07:14Yeah, I don't think we heard that.
07:15I just say they heard he had an ankle sprain.
07:17If it's a high ankle sprain, listen, I back off and say, hey, when he's ready, bring him.
07:23And whether it's a home game or not...
07:25I'm saying there's no rush at this point.
07:27We've waited this long.
07:28And I'm with you, Brian.
07:30What difference does it make if he plays at home, debut, or on the road?
07:33Matters to me, dog.
07:35Come out and do the Dougie.
07:37Nah, man.
07:37I don't want to see no Dougie.
07:38I want to see him score.
07:39Jeff, what's like the cool dance these days?
07:42See, we worry about the wrong stuff, man.
07:44The bin.
07:45The bin.
07:46Yeah, we worry about the wrong stuff.
07:48You know, I want to see him dunk on somebody and call it the new dance.
07:51And keep doing it week after week after week.
07:54B, we're not arguing that he's not going to do that.
07:56We're not arguing that we don't want to see him.
07:59It would just be special.
08:00I'm not saying about you arguing about it, Jeff.
08:01What I'm saying is, this is what we've done.
08:05As fans, we complain about teams not winning.
08:08But you know our biggest moments in some whack-ass stuff they did without making them win a game or
08:14something.
08:14Whether it's football, basketball, whatever.
08:16We get stuck on that instead of being stuck on win.
08:20Go out there, score, play better, get better, do better.
08:23We get stuck on, John did a dance.
08:26Who gives a damn?
08:27All right, party pooper.
08:29We got to think it'll be special at home.
08:32You know what?
08:32I would wish.
08:33We want to win.
08:35Of course we want to win.
08:36I would wish that they could get to the point and live up to the standards that I have.
08:40And I guarantee you, all of y'all be much happier.
08:43I agree with you.
08:44Championship should be the goal.
08:46It's the NBA regular season.
08:47And it's one game different.
08:49And guess what?
08:49It's the NBA regular season.
08:51We cannot take it for granted.
08:53You're listening.
08:54We as the Washington Wizards and D.C. can't take it for granted.
08:58We got to take it a little bit more serious.
