Over a year ago, Andray Blatche introduced some of us to the idea of "Lapdance Tuesday ." So it's only fitting, like a nine-dollar vodka and cranberry and an ill-conceived calf tattoo barely concealed by knee high boots, that the Washington Wizards have waived the mercurial forward on his holiest of high holidays. The Wizards have used the amnesty provision on Andray, knocking the final three years and $23 million of his contract off of their salary cap books. Blatche will receive the difference between the rest of that cash and the salary that his next team signs him to should another squad pick him up on the waiver wire. Because, make no mistake, he will be signed again; if just perhaps not off the waiver wire. Blatche has size and touch, and those attributes will always find a home in the NBA. Though his heft sometimes makes Andray look older than the 26 candles he'll blow out on August 22nd (a Wednesday, unfortunately), the scoring forward will still be years removed from his prime while also a few years removed from putting up a pretty solid 17.6 Player Efficiency Rating in 2009-10. NBA teams love a reclamation project, especially on the cheap, and NBA GMs love signing the sorts of players they'd never want to coach. Andray clicks all those boxes. The move from Washington's end, as first reported by the Washington Post's Michael Lee , was further discussed by team owner Ted Leonsis on his personal website :

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