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PJ Washington: 'I just hate losing. Even as a kid I was always like this'

“I was in a restaurant with my wife when I found out,” PJ Washington tells me. This is surely not the typical NBA player's recounting of the moment he finds out he's been traded. Five years after he was drafted in the first round by the longtime cellar-dwelling Charlotte Hornets, Washington got a call at the trade deadline in February that was life-changing: he was headed home to Texas.