Former Wizards Guard Spencer Dinwiddie Asked 'What Are We Doing?' During Time in DC

It didn't take long for Spencer Dinwiddie to go from Bradley Beal's right-hand man to being traded from the Washington Wizards to the Dallas Mavericks, and he recently opened up about the chaos that led to his departure.

Former Washington Wizards guard Spencer Dinwiddie has been around during his time in the NBA. 

In his ninth season right now he only spent part of one in 2021 with the Wizards but has experience as a member of the Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, and Dallas Mavericks as well. 

Having been around so many different franchises, he's a guy who could be viewed as someone who recognizes well-run basketball squads when he sees one. 

And it took him less than four months of playing in Washington to realize the situation was not right for him. 

"We had Rui (Hachimura) coming back from what he was struggling with," Dinwiddie said when speaking with Bleacher Report about his time with the Wizards. "Deni (Avdija) was supposed to be the second coming of Luka (Doncic), you got Brad (Beal) who's obviously the 'max guy', you got the Lakers guys coming over who want to establish themselves independently of Lebron...people playing for deals - all that stuff. And it was a situation where I was just saying like, 'What are we doing?'"

If it sounds hectic, it's because it was. 

The Wizards got that year off to a solid start winning 13 of their first 20 games with Dinwiddie appearing in all but two of them. 

But they won just seven of the next 20 and Dinwiddie only got on the court during five. 

With a roster full of players seemingly pulling in different directions, he felt like the team was lost, but more so his role within it was unclear.

"I thought I was coming into a situation where I was going to play No. 2 to Brad and Brad was going to do his 30-point thing and then we were going to try to piece this whole thing together to try to build towards winning," Dinwiddie continued. "That's what I was told and that's what I planned on doing. But then when the narrative got spun that they were saying I wanted to run the team or whatever else it was like, 'Bruh, I didn't even sign here to do that.'"

After being dealt in a sign-and-trade to the Wizards the offseason before the 2021 NBA season, Dinwiddie was again sent to a new team - along with forward Davis Bertans in the trade that brought Kristaps Porzingis in.

Since then, Dinwiddie says he got more clarity from the Mavericks, and even now that he's back with the Nets for a second stint, he feels more comfortable because the environment around him is more established.

"My whole sticking point was just, 'What are we doing?' If you can give me clarity, I'll do it," he says. "And I think the funny part about it is - even when I said that back then and everybody tried to spin it however they tried to spin it...the last year and a half have shown that...If you can give me what I need to do, fine. But if we're like, 'Aaaah, we got eight things we're trying to do,' then I'm sitting here like 'Bruh, what are we doing?'"

Dinwiddie and the Nets are currently holding the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference with playoff basketball growing ever closer. 

Meanwhile, Washington has 32 wins to 41 losses and sits 12th in the East. 

After losing four straight, including one to the 30-win Orlando Magic, it turns out Dinwiddie was asking in 2021 what most of us are asking the Wizards today...'Bruh, what are we doing?'

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