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\"I can pretty much, in my opinion, just be super adaptable to any team I go to,\" he said.

He added that his experiences playing on U.S. national teams throughout high school with NBA players had made it easy for him to \"just plug and put me in anywhere.\"

\"I think I'm pretty adaptable,\" he said. \"If you need me to score, I can do that. If you need me to play defense, I can do that.\"

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Looking ahead to his first NBA season, Dybantsa said his goal is to help the Wizards make the playoffs.

\"D.C. has been waiting to make the playoffs for a long time now -- the fans deserve it, the city deserves it,\" he said.

He said he also has early plans to get involved with the team and help with efforts to give back.

\"The Wizards are just super dialed into the community,\" he said. \"I see them do a whole bunch of stuff with kids and hospitals, at school, so I'm definitely gonna be tapped in with them.\"

He added, \"I also have my own foundation, which is called the AJ Dybantsa Foundation, where we're going to start with 20 kids in Jamaica and Congo to send them to different colleges. But after that, we're going to start going all over the world.\"

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