Washington
Most points in a playoff game: Washington Wizards
1. Elvin Hayes, 46 points
1975 Eastern Conference Semis, Game 5
Hayes tops this list with a stellar performance against the Buffalo Braves in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference Semifinals series in 1975. He scored 46 points, shooting 19-for-26 from the field and 8-for-13 from the free-throw line. In addition to his scoring contributions, Hayes provided 12 rebounds and five assists. No other player on the (then-)Bullets scored more than 14 points, but the Bullets still won the game. They would eventually win the series in seven games. Washington made it to the NBA Finals that season, and was swept by the Warriors.
2. Gilbert Arenas, 44 points
2006 Eastern Conference First Round, Game 5
Arenas made three All-Star teams during his time with the Wizards. He also made three trips to the playoffs. His best scoring outburst came in Game 5 of a 2006 Eastern Conference first round series against the Cavaliers. The game went to overtime, which helped Arenas score 44 points over 53 minutes. LeBron James scored 45 points for the Cavaliers, though, and the Wizards ended up losing the game. The Wizards would go on to lose the series in six games.
3. John Wall, 42 points
2017 Eastern Conference First Round, Game 6
The Wizards selected Wall with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 Draft. He went on to make five All-Star teams with the franchise. In his four playoff stints with the team, his best scoring performance came in Game 6 of an Eastern Conference first round series against the Hawks in 2017. He scored 42 points, shooting 16-for-25 from the field and 9-for-10 from the free-throw line. The Wizards won the game and advanced to face the Celtics, to whom they eventually lost in seven games.
4. Kevin Grevey, 41 points
1978 Eastern Conference First Round, Game 2
The Bullets selected Grevey with the 18th pick of the 1975 Draft, and he spent the first eight seasons of his career with the franchise. During the regular season, his highest scoring average came in 1980-81 when he averaged 17.2 points. However, he stepped up to score 41 points in Game 2 of a 1978 Eastern Conference first round series with the Hawks. He shot 15-for-24 from the field and 11-for-13 from the free-throw line in the game. The Bullets would go on to win their lone championship that season.
5. Elvin Hayes, John Wall – 40 points
1974 East Semis, Game 1; 2017 East Semis, Game 2
Two players tied for the fifth spot on this list. Hayes scored 40 points in Game 1 of a 1974 Eastern Conference Semifinals series with the Knicks. Wall also scored 40 points in Game 2 of a 2017 Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the Celtics. Wall’s performance came in a game that went into overtime, while Hayes’ performance came in regulation. Still, Hayes logged 48 minutes in his 40-point performance, while Wall played 47 minutes in his.
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USWNT forward Trinity Rodman signed a three-year deal with the NWSL’s Washington Spirit. The deal makes Rodman the highest-paid female footballer in the world.
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Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury has announced that she and her husband Matt are expecting a baby in July.
The couple made the announcement in a video on the Spirit’s social media channels, holding a baby goalkeeper jersey on the pitch at Audi Field.
Kingsbury becomes the most recent Spirit star to go on maternity leave, following defender Casey Krueger, midfielder Andi Sullivan and forward Ashley Hatch.
Sullivan gave birth to daughter Millie in July, while Hatch welcomed her son Leo in January.
Krueger announced she was pregnant with her second child in October.
Kingsbury has served as the Spirit’s starting goalkeeper since 2018, and has been named the NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year twice (2019 and 2021).
The 34-year-old has two caps with the U.S. women’s national team, and was named to the 2023 World Cup roster.
The club captain will leave a major void for the Spirit, who have finished as NWSL runner-up in back-to-back seasons.
Sandy MacIver and Kaylie Collins are expected to compete for the starting role while Kingsbury is on maternity leave.
The Spirit kick off their 2026 campaign on March 13 against the Portland Thorns.
YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima could soon take a major step toward redesigning Sixth Avenue after the Washington State Public Works Board awarded the city a $985,600 loan.
The loan was approved for the design engineering phase of the Sixth Avenue project. The funding can also be used along Sixth Avenue for utility replacement and updated ADA use.
The Yakima City Council must decide whether to accept the award. If the council accepts it, the city’s engineering work will move forward with the design of Sixth Avenue.
The cost of installing trolley lines is excluded from the plan. The historic trolleys would need to raise the funds required to add trolley lines.
The award is scheduled to be discussed during next week’s City Council meeting.
Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.
Brad Smith, the company’s president, made the announcement at a press conference with University of Washington President Robert Jones on Tuesday.
That means hiring more UW graduates as interns at Microsoft, he said.
And he said all students, faculty, and researchers should have access to free, or at least deeply-discounted, AI.
“ Some of it is compute that Microsoft is donating, and some of it is pursuant to an agreement where, believe me, we give the University of Washington probably the best pricing that anybody’s gonna find anywhere,” Smith said. He assured the small group of reporters present that it would be “many millions of dollars of additional computational resources.”
The announcement today didn’t include any specific numbers.
But Smith said Microsoft has already invested $165 million in the UW over several decades.
He pointed to Jones’ vision to spur “radical collaborations with businesses and communities to advance positive change,” and eliminate “any artificial barriers between the university and the communities it serves.”
Microsoft’s goal is for AI to help UW researchers solve some of the world’s biggest problems without introducing new ones.
At Tuesday’s announcement, several research students were present to demonstrate how AI supports their work.
Amelia Keyser-Gibson is an environmental scientist at the UW. She’s using AI to analyze photographs of vines, to find which adapt best to climate change.
It’s a paradox: AI produces carbon emissions. At the same time, it’s also a new tool to help reduce them.
So how do those things square for Keyser-Gibson?
“ That’s a great question, and honestly, I don’t know the answer to that,” she said. “I’m highly aware that there’s a lot of environmental impact of using AI, but what I can say is that this has allowed us to make research innovations that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.”
“If we had had to manually annotate every single image that would’ve been an undergrad doing that for hours,” Keyser-Gibson continued. “And we didn’t have the budget. We didn’t have the manpower to do that.”
“AI exists. If we don’t use it as researchers, we’re gonna fall behind.”
Microsoft reports on its own carbon emissions. But like most AI companies, it doesn’t reveal everything.
That’s one reason another UW student named Zhihan Zhang is using AI to estimate how much energy AI is using.
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