WASHINGTON — It looked like a wave and sounded like a party as fans here rose from their lower-bowl seats and roared for the visiting point guard Washington once called its own for a decade.
“At guard, 6-foot-2, from Kentucky,” the public-address announcer boomed during Saturday’s introduction of the visiting starting lineup, and that was enough for John Wall’s homecoming to begin.
Only minutes later, during a first-quarter timeout, another standing ovation followed Washington’s 90-second tribute video for Wall left the former Wizards star raising both arms and waving. There were calls of “I love you!” from the lower bowl. And there was the scene Wall had perhaps envisioned the most since signing with the Clippers in July, seeing that his first return to Washington with fans in attendance since being traded in 2020 would fall on a Saturday night in December.
