{"id":128644,"date":"2025-03-14T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=128644"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:42:29","slug":"wizards-rookie-breaks-franchise-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/14\/wizards-rookie-breaks-franchise-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards Rookie Breaks Franchise Record in Recent Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgky01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyshawn George<\/a> has officially been placed in the Washington Wizards&#8217; franchise record books. After only 59 career games in the NBA, George hit his 100th three, marking the fastest a Wizards rookie has hit that milestone. Previously, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bealbr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bradley Beal<\/a> held that record with 100 threes made in 60 games. Let&#8217;s dive into George&#8217;s recent accomplishment and season so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wizards rookie F Kyshawn George knocked down his 100th career three-pointer in tonight&#8217;s win at Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so in his 59th career game, he becomes the fastest Wizards rookie to reach 100 made three-pointers for his career (previously 60 games, Bradley Beal, 2012-13).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wizards PR (@WizPRStats) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WizPRStats\/status\/1900367971085685000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Wizards Rookie Kyshawn George Breaks Franchise Record in Recent Win<\/h2>\n<h3>All-Around Performance From George<\/h3>\n<p>George broke the record last night in Detroit against the Pistons. George was at 97 three-pointers going into last night&#8217;s game and needed three to break the record. He went scoreless through the first three quarters, missing one shot attempt. However, the fourth quarter was a completely different story. George came up extremely clutch, hitting three three-pointers in the fourth, with two inside the game&#8217;s final two minutes. The first of the two tied the game at 121, and the second came in their next possession to take the lead. George didn&#8217;t just break the record, he had an all-around stat sheet. His nine points went along nicely with four rebounds, an assist, and three steals, with only one turnover in 29 minutes. He ended the night shooting 37.5% from the field and 50% from three.<\/p>\n<p>George has been playing well in the last 10 games with the minutes\u00a0increase he&#8217;s received. He&#8217;s been playing 31.2 minutes a game while <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/player\/1642273\/traditional?LastNGames=10\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">averaging<\/a> 10.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.4 steals, and an impressive 1.7 blocks. His shooting splits aren&#8217;t great at 38.5% from the field and 36.1% from three. However, all of these numbers are well over his season averages.<\/p>\n<h3>The Rest of the Team<\/h3>\n<p>The Wizards won the game 129-125 after coming up short in their previous matchup against the Pistons earlier this week. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/coulibi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/13\/washington-wizards-young-star-bilal-coulibaly-injury\/#:~:text=Washington%20Wizards%20guard%20Bilal%20Coulibaly,right%20hamstring%20injury%2C%20team%20says.&amp;text=Since%20the%20Wizards&#039;%20season%20ends,final%20game%20of%20the%20season.\" target=\"_self\">out due to injury<\/a>, the whole team stepped up and delivered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sarral01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Sarr<\/a> led the team in points with 19, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/champju01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Champagnie<\/a> led the team in rebounds at nine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smartma01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Smart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/middlkh01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khris Middleton<\/a> had their best games as Wizards. Smart posted 15 points, seven assists, and four rebounds. Middleton had 16 points, seven rebounds, and a team-high of eight assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/carrica01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bub Carrington<\/a> scored 16 on 50% shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/poolejo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Poole<\/a> had an all-around performance with 17 points, six rebounds, and four assists.<\/p>\n<h3>Team Outlook<\/h3>\n<p>The Wizards are 4-3 so far in March, marking the best start to a month all season for them. Looking forward, they will try to keep the decent stretch alive as they are headed into game five of a seven-game road trip against the Denver Nuggets. The Wizards are still 15th in the East but they are now only two games back from the Charlotte Hornets. With a 14-51 overall record the Wizards have the worst record in the league however, they are just a half-game behind the Utah Jazz. Despite their solid play lately the Wizards are hoping to secure a bottom-three record so they have the best lottery odds possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-image-setImageMetadata\">\n<p class=\"ng-binding\">Photo credit: \u00a9 Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyshawn George has officially been placed in the Washington Wizards&#8217; franchise record books. After only 59 career games in the NBA, George hit his 100th three, marking the fastest a Wizards rookie has hit that milestone. Previously, Bradley Beal held that record with 100 threes made in 60 games. Let&#8217;s dive into George&#8217;s recent accomplishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":128684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,62,18],"tags":[49244,49322],"class_list":["post-128644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-nba","category-wizards","tag-alex-sarr","tag-kyshawn-george"],"modified_by":"Eamon Cassels, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128644"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128687,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128644\/revisions\/128687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}