Here’s CSN Washington on the difficult scenario where a player enjoys the team he just played for, and had a big role, and enjoyed success, yet may wind up moving on because that’s things often work:
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Whether or not Trevor Ariza comes back to the Wizards won’t be decided by one factor. Everyone knows that he loves the West coast, that he wants to win now and that his families mean everything to him. Yes, both.
“My family is definitely the most important thing to me before basketball, everything. That plays a big factor into a log of things,” Ariza said Friday after he packed up his locker and prepared to leave Verizon Center following the Wizards’ playoff elimination to the Indiana Pacers the previous night. “But when you build something with people that’s hard to let go, too. What we built in this locker room this season, this is a beautiful thing to me. I really enjoyed playing with those guys. I love those dudes like they’re my brothers.”
Ariza, who made $7.7 million, will be an unrestricted free agent and will have options.
