Avdija sat out Portland's final four games of the regular season with a thumb injury, but his presence back on the court this summer indicates he's fully recovered from the issue. The 2020 ...

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Portland Trail Blazers starting small forward Deni Avdija submitted an exciting performancing during a warm-up contest for ...

Deni Avdija of the Portland Trail Blazers reacts in the final minutes of a 127-113 win over the Atlanta Hawks on April 1, 2025. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/Courtesy) ...

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.

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?

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.

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 ...

There is at least one way that 6-foot-9 Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija is a lot like an ordinary 19-year-old. This year, he’s a freshman again. Avdija is at the beginning of his second ...