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Is there still a possibility that he can play this season? Dawkins: “Yeah, we’d like to see him with our young guys. I think that’s important.” What importance does that have for the big picture? Dawkins: “It’s important because Trae has a decision to make.” “He’s got the power of choice as a free agent. So you want to make sure that he’s comfortable playing with the young guys, to have the opportunity to play with Alex and to play with Bilal [Coulibaly] and see when they move and how they fit positionally. We have a lot of questions on our team and how we play moving forward. So you want to see that before you make that decision in July.”
Josh Robbins: The Wizards' injury report for their game Saturday in Charlotte has Marvin Bagley III (thoracic strain), Bilal Coulibaly (lower back strain), AJ Johnson (illness), Tristan Vukcevic (hamstring strain), Cam Whitmore (DVT) and Trae Young (MCL sprain/quad contusion) as OUT. Khris Middleton (left foot soreness) is QUESTIONABLE.
Washington Wizards: Update: Marvin Bagley III (illness) and Bilal Coulibaly (lower back strain) are now out for tonight's game. AJ Johnson and Khris Middleton have been upgraded to available
Josh Robbins: Bilal Coulibaly, who will miss tonight's game in Sacramento because of lower-back stiffness, has returned to Washington to get a head start on treatment on his back, Brian Keefe said. That also means Coulibaly will miss tomorrow night's game in Denver.
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Ramona Shelburne: Although I’m told both sides are open an extension, it’s not top of mind. In other words, Young can evaluate the situation/market, too. Wizards have a good young core of Sarr, Coulibaly, Johnson, George. So everyone can see the fit next to them over the next season or two.
Wizards fans are now lamenting the possibility of missing out, again, on a franchise-level player. Sotto voce, so do many in the building. There is having greatness and not having it, and Washington’s been in the latter category, with few exceptions, for the last five decades. The best path to winning big is to lose big, one last time, and get The Guy. “Yeah, we hear that, but we’re not worried about it, for real,” Bilal Coulibaly said Monday, after the Wizards’ 115-101 loss to the Suns. “We get out there, and we’re trying to hoop. Everybody that’s on the court, they’re not trying to do the wrong things. Everybody’s trying to do the right thing. So, we’re not worried about that. We just get out there and hoop.”
Charles Jean-Pierre laid out the painting of Bilal Coulibaly, a kaleidoscope of colors creating a mosaic of a dunk from the Washington Wizards player’s rookie year. Jean-Pierre, a D.C.-area painter, had created it as part of his “Like Water for Chocolate City” project. The series featured Black figures on blue backgrounds, but Coulibaly’s depiction had yet to get its backdrop. So Jean-Pierre, also an adjunct professor at Howard University, brought in an assistant. He set out a palette for the student and told him to squeeze a dollop of two shades of blue paint before adding in some white.
Jean-Pierre first heard about Coulibaly from Washington assistant coach David Vanterpool, who bought a painting and helped connect the two Francophones. Coulibaly is from Paris, Jean-Pierre is Haitian American, and the two switched between English and French throughout the session. “In the artist statement for that exhibition, I talked about how D.C. is a Chocolate City for sure and the Wizards are here as a kind of stalwart,” the artist said. “… Paris is a Chocolate City, Cape Town is a Chocolate City, Johannesburg, Dakar. … Just thinking about people and place and how we’re all connected by water. So I feel a kinship with [Coulibaly] to a certain extent.”
The Wizards have upgraded Bilal Coulibaly (left ankle sprain) and Marvin Bagley (left calf soreness) to available for Tuesday's game against Charlotte.
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Alex Sarr is expected to make his return from the adductor injury that kept him sidelined for the month of December on Thursday against the Spurs. The Wizards released their injury report (via Twitter), which didn’t include either him or Bilal Coulibaly, who has missed the last four games with an oblique injury.
Varun Shankar: Wizards injury report: No Sarr, Bilal still. But it looks like Tre Johnson is going to return for Washington.
Coach Brian Keefe did not play Cam Whitmore a single second in the Washington Wizards’ 131-116 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night. It seemed like a bewildering decision. Because of injuries, the Wizards were missing Bilal Coulibaly, Khris Middleton, Corey Kispert and Tre Johnson, all of whom are wings, as Whitmore is. Washington entered the game with a 3-18 record. It couldn’t have benefitted from playing Whitmore? What on earth was going on? “We have certain standards that we have for our team,” Keefe said. “He has to live up to those on the better, and he’ll have a chance here. But that’s going to be up to him when that time comes, and he has to meet the standards and expectations that we have for him as a team.”
Wizards PR: Washington Wizards guard/forward Bilal Coulibaly sustained a strained right oblique against the Philadelphia 76ers on Dec. 2. The injury will be treated conservatively, and Coulibaly’s recovery status will be updated as appropriate.
