If there’s one player with the potential to become a franchise cornerstone, it’s Deni Avdija. His transformation from the start of last season to post All Star break was like watching two completely ...

Deni Avdija makes a surprising "knife in the back" statement after the Portland Trail Blazers traded him to the Washington Wizards.

At a time when the world is watching the events taking place between Israel and Gaza, basketball fans are torn The post Al Horford’s Sister Joins Fans to Blast Deni Avdija’s Plans to Educate on Israel ...

Deni Avdija of the Portland Trail Blazers reacts in the final minutes of a 127-113 win over the Atlanta Hawks on April 1, 2025. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/Courtesy) ...

NEW ORLEANS — Deni Avdija trudged, exhausted, toward the Washington Wizards’ bench after Wednesday night’s game ended. He grabbed a towel and lofted it to a fan in the stands.

The Wizards selected Deni Avdija ninth in the 2020 NBA Draft. (Brad Mills / USA Today) When Westbrook arrived in Washington, his former teammates and former coaches remember, he was fully engaged.

Is chipper Deni Avdija — with the patchy goatee, a devotion to family game nights and an aversion to controversy — ready to join the Washington Wizards and play in today’s NBA?

There is at least one way that 6-foot-9 Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija is a lot like an ordinary 19-year-old. This year, he’s a freshman again. Avdija is at the beginning of his second ...

But it’s never given them an NBA star they can call their own. Deni Avdija, a 19-year-old wing averaging four points per game in Euroleague, would like to change that.

So long before the Warriors, who own the No. 2 overall pick, leaked that they worked Avdija out in Atlanta and were “ blown away ” by him, Avdija was on the map as a top-10 option in the 2020 ...

Back in April, Avdija was shooting just 33.6 percent from three, and he was even worse from the free-throw line, where he was at 52 percent in 47 games. However, I also spoke about the 19-year-old ...