Jordan Crawford

As he dressed in the visitor's locker room after the Washington Wizards ' season-ending loss in Chicago, Jason Collins was pelted with a piece of ice. Glaring over at the direction of the toss, Collins spotted teammate Trevor Booker with an opened ice pack on his right wrist, playfully looking away as if he wasn't the culprit. Collins continued to stare until he made eye contact with Booker and cracked a knowing smile before both players laughed. In his short time with the Wizards, Collins...

He still wears his tear-away pants snapped awkwardly so they rest just below the knee, shoots an hour before tip-off in his warmup shirt, and saunters around the arena like he owns the place. Jordan Crawford has changed addresses, but that doesn't mean the former Washington Wizards guard has changed who he is, or how he approaches the game now that he's a Boston Celtic. "More people watching. That's what everybody wants. Pretty much it," Crawford said recently, when asked to describe what it feels like to be on a playoff...

Before Jordan Crawford returned to his home town for the third time this season on Sunday, he joked that it wouldn't be a big deal because most of his friends and family in Detroit were "tired of me by now. " Little did he know that his mother, Sylvia, had planned to celebrate the fact that Crawford was actually going to play when his team arrived at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Sylvia Crawford rented a party bus replete with catered food from a local "chicken shack," which showed DVDs of all three of her...

As he dressed in the visitor's locker room after the Washington Wizards ' season-ending loss in Chicago, Jason Collins was pelted with a piece of ice. Glaring over at the direction of the toss, Collins spotted teammate Trevor Booker with an opened ice pack on his right wrist, playfully looking away as if he wasn't the culprit. Collins continued to stare until he made eye contact with Booker and cracked a knowing smile before both players laughed. In his short time with the Wizards, Collins...

He still wears his tear-away pants snapped awkwardly so they rest just below the knee, shoots an hour before tip-off in his warmup shirt, and saunters around the arena like he owns the place. Jordan Crawford has changed addresses, but that doesn't mean the former Washington Wizards guard has changed who he is, or how he approaches the game now that he's a Boston Celtic. "More people watching. That's what everybody wants. Pretty much it," Crawford said recently, when asked to describe what it feels like to be on a playoff...

TORONTO — The mismatch was obvious to nearly everyone in the arena except Jordan Crawford . All alone near the basket, and giving up almost four inches and 40 pounds, Crawford found himself in a seemingly compromising position last week as he was forced to guard New York Knicks all-star forward Carmelo Anthony after a defensive switch. Fans at Verizon Center groaned in anticipation, waiting for Anthony to flaunt his expansive offensive arsenal on the Washington Wizards '...

Of all of the unexpected developments in a season gone awry for the Washington Wizards – from John Wall 's continued absence because of a stress injury to his left knee, to Nene 's continued role as a reserve a month after returning from plantar fasciitis – none is perhaps more astonishing than the team basing its offense on the scoring and playmaking ability of shooting guard turned point guard Jordan Crawford . The injury-induced experiment,...

Jordan Crawford has supreme confidence , carries an extreme chip on his shoulder, calls himself "Sizzle" and never steps on court believing that he should take a back seat to anyone. Those qualities helped Crawford overachieve for much of his career but also proved to work against him in his final days as a member of the Washington Wizards. On Thursday, Washington traded the disgruntled third-year shooting guard to the Boston Celtics for injured veteran guard Leandro Barbosa...

For a player who once said his mentality leads him to believe that he can be better than Michael Jordan, it would take a lot to get Jordan Crawford 's confidence to waver. He slid to the back end of the first round in 2010 — but kept believing. He was strapped to the bench in Atlanta before getting unleashed once he arrived in Washington last season as a rookie — but never doubted his abilities. So it was pretty telling two weeks ago when Crawford finally broke out of a seemingly...

His right foot was swollen, limiting his mobility, but not his confidence. With the Washington Wizards on the verge of squandering yet another double-digit lead at home, Jordan Crawford squared up a few feet behind the three-point line, swung the ball side to side, then pulled from deep. By the time the ball had splashed through the net, Crawford had already backpedaled beyond half court, confident that the shot was good. "I felt I could make it and shot the shot....

John Wall angrily untucked his jersey, took one last look behind him and then headed to the locker room after receiving his second technical foul and an automatic ejection for a verbal altercation on Saturday with Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson . The Washington Wizards still had about 19 minutes remaining on their four-game road trip, but an entertaining and uneven week — which tested their depth, strength...

Jordan Crawford has supreme confidence , carries an extreme chip on his shoulder, calls himself "Sizzle" and never steps on court believing that he should take a back seat to anyone. Those qualities helped Crawford overachieve for much of his career but also proved to work against him in his final days as a member of the Washington Wizards. On Thursday, Washington traded the disgruntled third-year shooting guard to the Boston Celtics for injured veteran guard Leandro Barbosa...

Moving day? A look at possible moves that could be made before the NBA's trade deadline at 3 p.m. Thursday: Jordan Crawford → , Wizards The third-year guard's playing time (and production) has plummeted since he returned from a bone bruise in his left ankle last month. He's still the Wizards' third-leading scorer, but with John Wall back and Bradley Beal emerging, would Washington be better off trading him before he becomes a restricted free agent in 2014?

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — The Washington Wizards have seen Jordan Crawford go on scoring binges built from unconscionable shots, Bradley Beal get into a zone from beyond the three-point line, Martell Webster collect four-point plays, John Wall form a one-man parade down the lane and Nene play with such force inside that his dreadlocks have come loose from the elastic band meant to keep them together. What the Wizards haven't seen this season is any player on their roster score 30 points...

Nene saved a loose ball under the Minnesota Timberwolves' basket and never had to bother running after tossing a pass ahead to John Wall at midcourt. After catching the pass, Wall found an extra gear, avoided a reach-in by Dante Cunningham, did a pirouette around Ricky Rubio, dipped past Derrick Williams and flipped an underhanded, no-look shot off the glass that even he could not explain. "I didn't even know what I was doing there," Wall said. It was that easy for Wall and the...

SALT LAKE CITY — The camaraderie and upbeat attitude that has developed during the Washington Wizards ' longest trip of the season was evident in pregame warmups, as players lined up and mimicked Jordan Crawford 's game-winning shot in Portland two nights earlier. After Martell Webster 's deep three-pointer dropped, Webster let out his tongue, leaned over and ran down the court as Crawford and other teammates laughed. But shortly after the Wizards...

Even on a night when the Washington Wizards ignited their unpredictable offense, shared the ball, received a strong performance from a big man off the bench and saw their backup shooting guard settle into his temporary role at point guard for a season-best performance they still couldn't find a way to have it all add up to a victory. The Wizards fell, 100-95, in overtime Tuesday night at Verizon Center, marking their sixth consecutive loss to the Atlanta Hawks in...

Jordan Crawford winced with his left hand pressing against his lower back as he hobbled down the hallway from the Washington Wizards ' practice court toward the players' lounge, where he was supposed to get a massage. The strain of carrying the Wizards against the Miami Heat the night before — when the team lost John Wall to an ejection — was apparently too much for a scrawny, perpetually slouching rookie. "This is definitely hurting," Crawford said, rubbing his lower back.

SALT LAKE CITY – When Jordan Crawford decided that it was time to rest a bone bruise in his left ankle and the Washington Wizards reeled off their first three-game winning streak outside of April in nearly five years, the value of the team's leading scorer was suddenly brought into question: How would he fit when he returned? What role was he going to play? John Wall had finally joined the lineup, raising the competence and confidence of the team , and Bradley Beal was beginning to...

In their first 32 games, the Washington Wizards were 4-28. In the past seven games, they are 5-2. Just in the past two weeks, it's pretty clear what they've been missing so badly this season: another lockout to cancel the first two months of the season. Okay, John Wall , too. But think about it. If they had another 50- or 52-game sprint that opened in late December, then Wall and Nene begin the season healthy, and this town is buzzing about a potential playoff team.