>WASHINGTON ??Leave it Dan Snyder to try and steal a division rival’s thunder during Super Bowl week.While the Philadelphia Eagles
and New England Patriots take center stage in
Minneapolis
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Bruce Allen put in place a blockbuster deal to get Alex Smith from the Kansas
City Chiefs. On the surface, it looks like a good deal. But upon further review,
it’s typical Redskins spending big for someone else’s trash while undervaluing
their own young, homegrown talent.Yes, Smith is coming off a season in which he
set career highs in passing yards (4,042), touchdowns (26), and QB rating
(104.7). But at age 34, Smith is basically an older version of the guy you’re
getting rid of.That’s right. Kirk Cousins and Smith?have posted eerily similar
numbers?over the last three years. Neither has enjoyed any real playoff success.
Yet, Smith is getting a?four-year contract extension worth $94 million with $71
million in guarantees, while Cousins is getting shown the door.The Redskins
never really looked as if they wanted Cousins back, and by now, the feeling is
mutual. So now Cousins gets his wish ??a wide-open shot at the free agent market
to get paid his market value ??and the ‘Skins will likely get a compensatory
draft pick that offsets the third-rounder they sent to Kansas City.The biggest
crime of all is that the Redskins have committed the sin they swore they
wouldn’t to keep Cousins ??mortgaging their ability to build a competitive
football team, particularly on
defense
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lucrative extension without even knowing whether he’s as good a fit in Jay
Gruden’s offense as Cousins is the kind of needless desperation that led to the
team’s 2010 trade for Donovan McNabb, which, ironically, was another product of
Andy Reid’s wizardry with QBs.Thus, the biggest issue of all is the team giving
up one of the their brightest young defensive stars.?If you’re not familiar with
Kendall Fuller, he was the Redskins’ third-round pick in 2016. Were it not for
concern over a knee injury, the Virginia Tech product easily would have been a
first-rounder. He’s the Redskins’ second-best corner behind Josh Norman, and
he’s certainly the future at that position considering he’s just 22 years old
and has two more years on a cheap, rookie contract.It’s also quite telling that
Fuller’s teammates (and the man that drafted him) aren’t happy.Oh this had to be
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BOSTON — The Boston Celtics host the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday night in a regular-season finale that won’t affect the postseason.
But while the Celtics go through the motions on Fan Appreciation Night, they will have a collective eye trained on the out-of-town scoreboard.
They are waiting to see who they will play in the first round of the playoffs that begin this weekend.
Tuesday night, second-seeded Boston had a chance to bury the Washington Wizards in the eighth spot in the final standings, leaving Washington in a
first-round matchup with the top-seeded Toronto Raptors.
But the Celtics were thumped 113-101 by the Wizards, a team that played half the season without an injured John Wall and one you might want to avoid in the
playoffs — with Wall rounding into shape. With the win, the Wizards, who engaged
in a mean-spirited seven-game series against the Celtics last year, remained in
a three-team scramble with the Milwaukee Bucks and Miami Heat.
Through Tuesday, the Bucks were in sixth place, a game ahead of the Heat and Wizards — the Heat holding the 7-8 tiebreaker with Washington.
The Bucks will try to end the Philadelphia 76ers’ 15-game winning streak in Philadelphia (where the Sixers can clinch the third seed) Wednesday, thus
finishing sixth — and also avoiding surrendering their No. 1 draft choice to the
Phoenix Suns by finishing seventh or eighth.
Miami hosts Toronto in yet another potential first-round matchup and while the Raptors have clinched first in the East, they are in a close battle with the
Golden State Warriors, second in the
West
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The Wizards, 3-1 against Boston this season, are at the out-of-the-money Orlando Magic Wednesday night for the back end of a back-to-back.
In one scenario, if the Sixers win their 16th straight win, Washington and Toronto win on Wednesday night, the Celtics face No. 7 Milwaukee, which loses
its draft pick.
Yes, it’s complicated.
Before Tuesday’s game, Celtics coach Brad Stevens said, “(The last-minute seeding) is no more than of a stress on our staff than the staff we’re playing
against. At the end of the day, we’ll work and be ready to play Saturday or
Sunday, whenever we play.”
Regardless of who they play, the Celtics, who have lost four of their last five
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Daniel Theis, although they did get some good news Monday on Marcus Smart.
The energetic Smart, who had surgery to repair a tear in his right thumb, is on target for a six-week return, which would be later this month. But he still
won’t be around in the opening round — the loss of Irving and Smart putting more
of a burden on Terry Rozier, who has slumped and also suffered from an ankle
injury in the last four weeks.
The Celtics are 3-0 against Brooklyn this season, but the three wins have been by a total of 12 points — and Irving was the leading scorer in each of the
three games.
The Nets have won three straight — their first three-game winning streak of the season — and are 7-5 in their last 12 after losing 18 of 21.
“Things are maybe turning that corner that we wanted to get a little early in the season, but it’s better late than never,” Allen Crabbe said after his
career-high 41 points led his team to a 114-105 win over the Chicago Bulls
Monday night.
Boston is 7-0 against Brooklyn over the last two seasons.
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