Carrying a rare winning streak, the Washington Wizards will look to complete a 3-for-3 road swing when they face the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday in New York.

Washington (8-41) heads into the contest with the worst record in the NBA, having suffered a 16th straight loss for the second time this season when they fell 134-96 to the visiting Los Angeles Lakers on January 30.
However, on Saturday, the Wizards scored their first win since January 1 by prevailing 105-103 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis. Washington followed it up with a 124-114 victory over the host Charlotte Hornets on Monday, securing just the second winning streak of the 2024-25 campaign. The Wizards have not won three straight games since last March.
Corey Kispert scored a season-high 25 points on Monday, while Bilal Coulibaly added 26 points, his highest total since December 13. Washington is 2-1 when Coulibaly scores at least 26 points, and three of the Wizards’ eight wins have come when he notched at least 20 points. Washington is 2-2 in Kispert’s four games of 20 or more points.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn (17-33) enters the Wednesday matchup with a three-game winning streak, matching its best run of the campaign. The latest two victories came against the Western Conference’s third-place team, the Houston Rockets.
After downing the Rockets 110-98 in Texas on Saturday, the Nets scored a 99-97 home victory over Houston on Tuesday, thanks to a stunning rally in the final 10 seconds. Brooklyn trailed by four points before Keon Johnson sank a 3-pointer with 8.1 seconds left. Tosan Evbuomwan then stole the inbounds pass, and D’Angelo Russell sank the game-winning 3-pointer with 3.4 seconds remaining. The Rockets’ Jalen Green missed a desperation 3-point attempt in the last second.
Johnson’s 22 points led injury-depleted Brooklyn in the first leg of its midweek back-to-back. The Nets were without Noah Clowney (ankle), Cam Thomas (hamstring), and Cameron Johnson (ankle). Bojan Bogdanovic, who has yet to suit up this season, is moving closer to a return from offseason foot surgery.
Generating consistent offense has been a struggle for Brooklyn amid lingering issues and roster changes this season, as the Nets rank next to last in the NBA in scoring (105.4 points per game). However, Brooklyn has been solid on defense, allowing 112.1 points per game, which ranks 12th among the league’s 30 teams. The Nets held their opponent to fewer than 100 points in all three games during the current streak, which began on January 29 with a 104-83 rout at Charlotte.
Johnson has been a key factor on both sides of the ball, particularly in the past month. The Tuesday performance was his fifth time scoring 20 or more points since January 10, bumping his season average from 8.0 to 9.7 points per game. He also registered his fifth multiple-steal game since January 10, with two thefts on Tuesday.