“What’s your shoe size? Before you answer, can I guess?” “Can you do the dougie?” “Who is your celebrity crush?” These are real questions. Or, at the very least, better than the run-of-the-mill cliche-feeding that invariably takes over ever pre and postgame press conference. Things are better when De’La, our intrepid “junior reporter” for the Washington Wizards, has the mic in her hands. Right, Marty?

Wizards guard John Wall and Magic guard Ish Smith exchanged a pair of fine plays in the Wizards’ 120-91 drubbing of the Magic Monday night. All this from a Wizards-Magic game, seriously.

Things can’t get worse for a 3-18 basketball team, you say? Let’s examine the Washington Wizards. They are said 3-18 team, and by most accounts have nowhere to go but up. But budding young point guard John Wall, who hasn’t played a game yet this season, might be shut down for good thanks to new-found complications in a left knee injury.

John Wall was once a phenom playing high school basketball. At Reebok’s Breakout Challenge, Wall found himself staring down a new rising high school hoops star. So a game of one-on-one — and trash talking one-upmanship — was necessary. [h/t Dan Devine's Twitter]

Question: Should the Wizards sign Chris Brown for next season? The answer, of course, is no. But the thought has to cross your mind for a moment after the watching singer/rapper/dancer/loose cannon run the break and hit John Wall for an alley-oop. Video after the jump.

Try as they might, it would be very difficult for Wizards fans (and the Wizards team) to take anything positive from the 103-65 drubbing the Knicks put on the D.C. crew last night. There was little effort, and even the moments of inspired basketball were squandered by poor execution. But hey, Wiz fans, John Wall had a sweet alley-oop in the third quarter. So, that’s cool. Watch Wall sky over Baron Davis after the jump.

A cool moment occurred after last night’s Wizards-Heat game, when LeBron James and Dwyane Wade went over to give some words of encouragement to youngster John Wall (the Heat crushed the beleaguered Wiz, 106-89). As LeBron talked to Wall, he covered his mouth. What was he saying? It had to be some version “I know your team sucks, but you have to keep pushing,” right? Why else would he cover up his mouth so the cameras couldn’t see? Video of the conversation (and of LeBron messing with Chris Bosh), after the jump.

Jeremy Lin continues to impress, as in the span of a week he’s gone from being the last man on the Knicks bench to hearing the “M-V-P!” chant… at away games, nonetheless. And tonight, in Washington, he was able to win over Wizards fans when he crossed over John Wall and threw down a pretty impressive dunk.