The Washington Wizards have removed themselves from the Jordan Poole experiment after two seasons dealing with the highs-and-lows rostering the Michigan product brings to an organization.
Washington landed Poole in a deal with the Golden State Warriors after sending Chris Paul to the Western Conference as part of the fallout from the Bradley Beal blockbuster a couple offseasons ago.
The Wizards were in a place where taking a swing on Poole's potential seemed far more beneficial than keeping an aging Paul in the DMV as a mentor, which now looking back could be reviewed as a questionable decision.
Regardless, the Wizards and head coach Brian Keefe in specific managed to get the best they could out of the explosive guard this past season which alone was a victory in its own, especially considering the fact that Keefe made the decision to bench the young playmaker during the final stretch of his first season in D.C.
Still, despite his tenure with Washington coming to an end, there's still plenty of takeaways being gathered from his stint with the Wizards with the most recent coming from NBA legend and current ESPN analyst, Richard Jefferson.
As most people know, prior to Poole's arrival in Washington, a league-wide headline formed regarding the physical altercation within a team' practice between Poole and long-time Warrior Draymond Green.
With tensions seemingly growing between the two for quite some time, a heated practice led to punches being thrown and a major ordeal that essentially put the writing on the wall for Poole to be moved to a new destination.
And while many people viewed Green as the individual in the wrong for the altercation considering his constant instigation of Poole, Jefferson shared his thoughts about the dispute as the dust continues to settle.
"I think we've seen Draymond continue to navigate some of his frustration on the court in other ways, and we've seen Jordan Poole act out of pocket on a basketball court. That should be checked," Jefferson noted on a recent episode of the Road Trippin' podcast.
"Even when he was with the Wizards, some of the things that he was doing on the court and his behavior are the behavior of a basketball player that needs to be checked, right?"
"Talented player, NBA champion, no question… But on the Wizards, we've seen some of the shots, some of the f—ry, some of the attitude. We've seen that,"
Initially, it seemed that Steve Kerr's motivation for Poole to stand up to Green and the results of that may have steered Poole in the direction to take the game more serious.
Undoubtedly Jefferson doesn't exactly believe that to be true suggesting multiple occasions in which the guard carried over the same head scratching decision-making that could have sparked controversy in Golden State.
Perhaps the Wizards' front office agrees wiith Jefferson's take and that may be the reason for the team's decision to end the Poole Party when they did.