The origin of this "long-held belief" becomes clear when looking at Unseld's stats from that seven-game Finals series. Playing against the Seattle Supersonics, the late Wizards legend averaged ...

Wes Unseld was a highly sought-after recruit in high school, but racial tensions and threats, including a dead chicken in the mail, led him to reject Kentucky and join Louisville.

Unseld followed up his MVP campaign by averaging 16.2 points, 16.7 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in 1969-70, shooting 51.8% from the field, an improvement over his 47.6% in his rookie season.

As the rebuild for the Wizards continues to progress, the results haven’t truly manifested yet. The firing of former Wizards Head Coach Wes Unseld Jr. came as a surprise.

Wes Unseld (left) and Gus Johnson (right) of the Baltimore Bullets played four seasons together. The Wizards’ all-time rebound leaderboard mostly features players from the 1960s and 1970s.

Unseld Jr. was named Wizards head coach on July 17, 2021, putting him at the helm of an organization where his father, Wes Unseld, brought the city its lone NBA title in 1978. The Wizards went 77 ...

I'm playing against Wes Unseld. I'm playing against Dan Issel. Here's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Here's Jack Sikma. My second game I played against Julius Erving. And by the way, I blocked his shot.

About ten years after the Washington Bullets won the 1978 NBA Finals, two of their former players participated in a roast. Wes Unseld, who controversially won the Finals MVP that year, was the ...