The network has not publicly identified any candidates for the job. But there are several obvious names who — based on their local ties, personalities, professional ambitions and broadcasting experience — would make sense as potential candidates. Among those names: former Mystics guard Kara Lawson; former Wizards players Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, Antonio Daniels and Drew Gooden; and former Maryland star Christy Winters-Scott.

The regional sports network plans to compile a shortlist of candidates, who will then audition sometime this summer. Chenier will continue to work for CSN, joining the new broadcast for some three-person booths and appearing on Wizards pregame and postgame studio shows. His replacement, though, will immediately become among the most prominent voices covering local basketball, with a chance to become a generational fixture in local homes.

These sorts of jobs, needless to say, don’t come open very often. Chenier, the only full-time color analyst in franchise history, got the job without an audition when Home Team Sports began its first season of full-time coverage in 1984, which means D.C. basketball fans have never witnessed a search quite like this one.

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And it’s not just unusual for local basketball fans.The television voices of the Washington Capitals — Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin — have been in place for more than 20 years, while Wizards play-by-play voice Steve Buckhantz’s 20th anniversary with CSN will arrive this fall. Bob Carpenter has logged more than a decade as the Nationals television play-by-play voice on MASN, making F.P. Santangelo — who arrived in 2010 — by far the least experienced voice calling local games on television. And while the new hire might not have Chenier’s Bullets championship bona fides, there are plenty of candidates who would make sense in the role.

Start with Lawson, a Washington area native and graduate of West Springfield High who was raised on Washington sports. Lawson played 13 seasons in the WNBA, the last two for the Mystics, who share ownership with the Wizards. She also has perhaps the most game broadcasting experience of any realistic candidate for the job. Lawson began her media ascent early in her playing career, doing studio analysis for local Sacramento Kings broadcasts in 2004, and starting her ESPN work around the same time.

Since then she’s performed virtually every basketball broadcasting job imaginable, from game analyst to studio analyst to sideline reporter to play-by-play voice. She’s covered men’s and women’s college basketball, was the first woman analyst on a nationally televised NBA game, and spent this spring as an ESPN Radio analyst for NBA playoff games. She also would offer CSN and the Wizards a chance to make history by hiring the first full-time female game analyst in the NBA.

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Likewise for Winters-Scott, who has gained increasing prominence in recent years for her CSN work as a pregame and postgame studio analyst. Winters-Scott — like Lawson, a local product and former All-Met Player of the Year — also has done game broadcasts for a variety of television outlets, and has become a regular local media voice on the Wizards. She serves as the girls basketball coach at South Lakes, her alma mater, a role that would presumably be incompatible with full-time game broadcasting.

Of former Wizards players, Butler is perhaps the most decorated candidate. He spent just four-and-a-half years in D.C. during his 14-year career, but it was in Washington that he became an all-star and a fan favorite, and where he established himself as a boldfaced NBA name. Butler lives in Southern California, but he’s frequently said the D.C. area still feels like home, and he earns endless handshakes and hugs whenever he visits Verizon Center.

Butler twice attended broadcasting boot camps at Syracuse University, and has made dozens of media appearances over the past year — from Fox Sports to ESPN to Turner — as he transitioned from playing to analyzing. He already has a studio in his Los Angeles home, and told associates that he would definitely be interested in the CSN analyst job.

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The search could also include two of his ex-teammates in Haywood and Daniels, who each have burgeoning media careers. Haywood, the incisive and often-hilarious former Wizards center, has done broadcasting work for SiriusXM NBA Radio, ESPN, CBS Sports and Turner, getting a large national audience for his studio work during the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Haywood spent nearly nine seasons playing for the Wizards — almost exactly the same tenure Chenier logged with the franchise — and he still ranks in the top 10 in franchise history in a host of categories, including games played, rebounds and blocked shots.

Daniels spent a bit more than three seasons here, overlapping with Haywood and Butler during the peak years of that playoff era. Like the other two, he was a media favorite, both amusing and insightful, and was a natural when he moved into broadcasting. He serves now as a pregame, halftime and postgame analyst for the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans, and as a studio host for SiriusXM NBA Radio. Daniels lives in San Antonio, where he was named the “local radio sports personality of the year” two years ago.

While those three players all hail from the previous Wizards playoff era, at least one veteran of the more recent era could also be in the mix. Gooden spent the final three seasons of his 14-year career in Washington; he had been living and training in Montgomery County before hooking on with the team in 2014. Like the others, he was a go-to source for media members during his time here and made appearances on NBA TV and SiriusXM NBA Radio this spring.