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

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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.

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?

When Deni Avdija, the Israeli swingman who starred for Maccabi Tel Aviv and was projected to go as high as No. 2 in this year’s NBA draft, slipped to No. 9, there was celebration in the Wizards ...

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.

Back in April, Avdija was shooting just 33.6 percent from three, and he was even worse from the free-throw line, where he was at 52 percent in 47 games. However, I also spoke about the 19-year-old ...