WASHINGTON — The Wizards’ trade deadline experience was more drastic than it could have been.



Washington unloaded a couple of players, Otto Porter and Markieff Morris, receiving back a trio of contributors and getting out of the luxury tax in the process. The moves came only a week after team owner Ted Leonsis insisted the franchise would not trade any of Porter, John Wall or Bradley Beal.



Two out of three ain’t bad.



The core duo remaining from an eroded big three could be sticking around longer than the mere remainder of this struggling year. Wall’s recent Achilles’ rupture matched with a pending maximum extension makes him one of the league’s most difficult players to trade. And the organization intends to keep Beal beyond this summer, team president Ernie Grunfeld told The Athletic in an exclusive interview Thursday afternoon.



“We have no intention of trading Bradley,” Grunfeld said, when...