Wizards shift focus to a more specialized training staff: After a disastrous 2015-16 in which they were among the NBA’s most battered and injured teams, the Wizards are heading in a new direction with their athletic training staff and are close to finalizing a new structure that focuses more on the clinical side, league sources tell CSNmidatlantic.com. Longtime head athletic trainer Eric Waters was fired with one year left on his contract after a 41-41 season in which multiple players were injured and stayed in street clothes for long stretches. -- CSN Mid-Atlantic

Shawn Dawson goes from Wizards to Pelicans: Shawn Dawson, who played for the Wizards at Las Vegas summer league but declined a training camp invite last week, will attend training camp with the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources tell CSNmidatlantic.com. Dawson played in four games last month and came off the bench in an attempt to play his way into the NBA as an undrafted rookie from Israel. -- CSN Mid-Atlantic