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Anthony Gill Returns to Washington for a Seventh Season

The Wizards' longest-tenured player is back after a career-best 5.8 points per game in 2025-26. What it means for fantasy: basically nothing.

Anthony Gill Returns to Washington for a Seventh Season
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Anthony Gill

A career year of 5.8 PPG still isn't rosterable in standard formats.

Key numbers
  • Career-high 5.8 PPG in 2025-26
  • Added 2.9 rebounds per game across 55 games
  • Entering his 7th season in Washington
  • Longest-tenured Wizard on the active roster
  • Been with the team since 2020-21

Anthony Gill is running it back in Washington. The forward has re-signed with the Wizards for his seventh season with the franchise, making him the longest-tenured player on the current active roster. He's coming off a 2025-26 campaign in which he posted career highs of 5.8 points and 2.9 rebounds per game across 55 appearances.

Those are real career bests, and they still land well outside anything that matters in fantasy. Gill has been a rotation piece and a locker-room steadying hand more than a stat producer, and this deal doesn't change that job description. His tenure stretches all the way back to 2020-21 — the last time Washington reached the playoffs.

The Long View

Six years is an eternity in NBA roster terms, especially for a team that spent most of the decade tearing things down and rebuilding. Front offices turn over, whole rosters get flipped, and yet Gill keeps sticking around. He's the guy who takes the minutes he's given, plays clean, and models the right habits for a young Washington core still trying to find its footing.

That professionalism is genuinely valuable to the organization. It just doesn't move the needle for your fantasy team. A player averaging under six points a night, even in a career year, isn't cracking standard-league rosters, and Washington's crowded frontcourt of younger developmental prospects means his role isn't trending toward more.

The Fantasy Fallout

There's no scenario here where Gill becomes a streamer worth chasing. His 2025-26 line was the ceiling, not the floor, and re-signing to a familiar bench role signals more of the same in 2026-27.

Bottom line: if Gill is somehow on your roster in a deep dynasty format, this is a fine spot to move on. In standard leagues he was never a factor and won't be one now. File this under organizational continuity, not fantasy relevance, and spend your waiver attention elsewhere.