This year, the Wizards continued to add both young talent and veteran presence to their roster. Before the NBA Draft, the Wizards traded Jordan Poole for CJ McCollum<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the NBA Draft, the Wizards picked Tre Johnson<\/a>, who looks like a very promising prospect. But there\u2019s one move that made that has everyone in the NBA applauding their front office.<\/p>\n The Wizards landed Cam Whitmore from the Houston Rockets<\/a>, adding a brilliant young star with limitless potential to their ranks.<\/p>\n The Washington Wizards have a unique blend of young prospects and veteran presence. The hope is that the older stars can set the culture and help develop these prospects into future superstars.<\/p>\n This is what the 2025-26 Washington Wizards lineup is expected to look like:<\/p>\n Starting LineupSecond UnitCJ McCollumBub CarringtonTre JohnsonAJ JohnsonCam WhitmoreCorey KispertBilal CoulibalyKhris MiddletonAlexandre SarrMarvin Bagley III<\/p>\n The Wizards are likely to move Bub Carrington back to the bench after landing an experienced point guard like CJ McCollum<\/a>, who can conduct the offense.<\/p>\n While Cam Whitmore<\/a> might start the season on the bench, given his talent, it\u2019s highly likely that he forces Wizards head coach Brian Keefe<\/a> to put him in the lineup in place of Khris Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n Washington Wizards have an incredible young core to build around<\/p>\n The Washington Wizards are quietly putting together a brilliant young core of players. Once they all develop into proper talent, these young stars could massively elevate the Wizards.<\/p>\n Bub Carrington, Tre Johnson, Cam Whitmore, Bilal Coulibaly<\/a>, and Alexandre Sarr<\/a> have the talent and potential to be a championship starting five if they all reach their fullest potential.<\/p>\n However, landing these young stars was the easy part. Now the Wizards need to make sure these young stars are given everything they need to develop the right way.<\/p>\n Talent development has been a struggle for the Wizards in years past. But with the quality of this core, they absolutely cannot afford to let things go wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards could finally reap the rewards of their patient team-building over the last five years. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[67067,24621,49,48,8221,23934,57341,459,82,8027],"class_list":{"0":"post-120611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alexandre-sarr","9":"tag-bilal-coulibaly","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-cj-mccollum","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-khris-middleton","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-washington-wizards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2024](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2159823554-941x627.jpg\")
Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images2025-26 Washington Wizards projected starting lineup<\/p>\n