1988–89 Washington Bullets season

[2][3][4][5][6] During the off-season, the team acquired Dave Feitl from the Golden State Warriors.

[7][8][9] Under Wes Unseld's first full season as head coach,[10] and with the addition of Grant and Eackles,[11][12] the Bullets struggled losing seven straight games in December, which led to a 4–14 start,[13] and held a 17–28 record at the All-Star break.

[14] However, the team played above .500 for the remainder of the regular season, and finished in fourth place in the Atlantic Division with a 40–42 record, which was two more wins then the previous season, but the team failed to qualify for the playoffs, finishing just two games behind the 8th-seeded Boston Celtics.

[15][16] Jeff Malone led the team in scoring averaging 21.7 points per game, while Bernard King averaged 20.7 points per game, and sixth man Hot Plate Williams provided the team with 13.7 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game off the bench, and finished in fourth place in Sixth Man of the Year voting.

[24][25][26][19] Following the season, Catledge was left unprotected in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft, where he was selected by the newly expansion Orlando Magic,[27][28][29][30][31] and Feitl was released to free agency.