The Wizards appear to be ... doing it right?!

An impossibly young team is picking up early season wins.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt; Claude Monet; 1868

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Scores

Hawks 120, Wizards 133 — My preseason hunch that the Hawks were not very good is vindicated; my first-week hunch that the Hawks might have it again is destroyed. I don’t know. This team’s weird. Or it’s just that Dyson Daniels, Bogdan Bogdanovic and De’Andre Hunter are important.

Anyways, shout out to the critically young Wizards getting some early season wins. The starting five in this game had an average age of 20.8. Jordan Poole, the vet, is four years older than the next oldest starter, Kyshawn George, who was a freshman at The U this time last year.

And they are out here winning games. Bilal Coulibaly is showing something early this season.

You play Alex Sarr and Bub Carrington and Kyshawn George starter minutes in hopes they develop quickly like Coulibaly.

Credit to vets like Jonas Valanciunas and Corey Kispert for being fine (it would seem) coming off the bench behind much less accomplished players, and credit to Brian Keefe and the Wizards front office for executing a vision from Day 1, and now waiting until February and March to let the kids run. This is frankly inspiring.

Pistons 105, Sixers 95 — In times like these — with Joel Embiid and Paul George still DNP for the season — you really miss Tobias Harris. And then you see him, dropping 18-14 for the opponent, a moribund team he fled to for financial reasons.

That Sixers supporting cast now supporting only Tyrese Maxey should look a lot better with the stars back. Assuming they come back.

Celtics 132, Pacers 135 — A zesty game and a huge win for Indiana, who led by 24 in the third quarter but ended up in overtime as the Celtics ripped back in the fourth. Boston was down nine with 96 seconds remaining.

After the regulation disaster, Pascal Siakam hit the tying shot and the winner. Spicy.

Salute to the Celtics for fighting back amid what looked like an inevitable loss, and salute to the Pacers for finding a way to preserve what looked like a horrifying collapse. And hey, how about Bennedict Mathurin with 30-11 in 43 minutes off the bench?

Lakers 110, Cavaliers 134 — Kenny Atkinson had to shuffle his rotation due to early foul trouble for Darius Garland, but Donovan Mitchell showed out early to help Cleveland to a big lead, and the Cavaliers just never let off the gas. Mitchell had 15 in the first (24 overall), Jarrett Allen had 14 in the second (20 overall) and then Evan Mobley finished it off with 17 in the first seven minutes of the fourth (25 overall). Complete domination from the only undefeated team left in the East.

A few sweet moments surrounding Bronny James, who spent a whole lot of time in the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse as a kid. The Cavs had a tribute video to both Jameses early.