At a time when the world is watching the events taking place between Israel and Gaza, basketball fans are torn The post Al ...

The Portland Trail Blazers are very excited to bring back Damian Lillard. Lillard spent two seasons away in Milwaukee before ...

Deni Avdija prioritizes playing for Israel's national team. He puts his NBA career on hold. Avdija aims to represent his ...

Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija made a bold choice this summer to step away from NBA preparations and fully commit ...

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

Blue-and-white’s NBA star leads the way as national team gathers in Tel Aviv to begin EuroBasket journey. The Israel basketball senior national Team officially opened up training camp for the 2025 ...

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.

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?

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.