Anthony Gill's Minutes Are Up 17 a Night for the Wizards
A bench forward is playing starter minutes while a teammate is out, and the tape says he's using them.
Anthony Gill is averaging 17 more minutes a night than his season mark over his last three games with the Wizards, with a teammate out. That is the jump: from a 2025-26 season average of 17.3 minutes to 34.6 minutes a night in his last three outings, through the game on April 12, 2026.
The minutes have come with more scoring. Gill is averaging 12.7 points over that three-game stretch, more than double his 5.8 points a game for the season. Across 55 games this season, his role had been a limited one. The last three games show what he does with a bigger workload: he scores more, because he is on the floor more.
Whether this holds depends on the teammate who is out. If that player stays out, Gill keeps the extra minutes and the scoring load that comes with them. If that player returns, Gill's minutes and points would be expected to come back down toward his season averages of 17.3 minutes and 5.8 points.
For now, the numbers describe a short window: three games, one absence, one player answering with more production. The next few games, and whether the injured teammate is back on the floor, will say whether this is a real shift in the Wizards' rotation or a short-term fill-in.