All eyes are fixed on the end of the regular season in the NBA, and the Franchises are playing it out to gain a position in the post season and to grip onto their dreams of getting hold of the NBA Trophy. As the teams battle it out on court many of the Franchises have a struggle outside the court, with the modern day wage structure as it is, and the players expectations ever increasing some of the Franchises are finding it tricky to survive in the existing structure. In this article we will briefly look into the Washington Wizards, a franchise with a good history and a huge basis of fans. Many of the existing Franchises are produced from enormous investment when the Franchise For Sale decisions were available to possible backers. This is just beginning to be more obligatory in the existing structure as Franchise For Sale decisions are really tricky to find, mainly in this structure. Many of the existing backers are holding strong to their investments in this collapse and are impatient for a turn around in the world markets. Through this stage backers will be managing their own Franchises as a Home Based Franchise, which means that they are cutting their overheads and only spending the least possible amounts. A Home Based Franchise delights itself on not having a large amount of costs and so using the Franchises ability to make a return. The existing NBA Franchises are taking this method, as they don’t want a Franchise For Sale sign hanging at their headquarters. Through many of the Franchises history there has been significant times of change, in GMs, players and financial situations as this Washington Wizards article will illustrate.
The Washington Wizards started as the Chicago Packers in 1961, spent some seasons in Baltimore, and lastly landed in Washington, as the Washington Bullets, in 1974.
After achieving only modest success for a decade, the Bullets grew into a solid unit in the 1970s, built around tough centre Wes Unseld and gifted scorer and re-bounder Elvin Hayes. Washington got to the NBA Finals four times throughout the 1970s and defeated the Seattle SuperSonics for the NBA trophy in 1977-78.
The Bullets were a model of reliability during the ’80s, establishing an NBA record by winning at least 35 games in each of 22 repeated years, from 1967-68 through 1988-89. A seven-year postseason drought concluded in 1996-97 when the Bullets progressed to the playoffs, losing a hard-fought series to the Chicago Bulls. The final game of that series, a 96-95 loss on April 30, 1997, marked the end of an epoch.
On May 15, the team officially became known as the Washington Wizards, a decision made by owner Abe Pollin in union with the Franchises anti-violence campaign. At the same time, the Wizards set up for a move from suburban Landover, Maryland, to the MCI Centre in the centre of Washington.
The 2002-03 season would be the ultimate goodbye for one of the NBA’s best players as Michael Jordan finished his famous 15 year career as a Wizard.
In his closing season in the NBA, Jordan was the only Washington player to compete in all 82 games, starting in 67 of them. He averaged 20 points, 6.1 rebounds 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game in his closing year and shooting 45 percent from the field and 82 percent from the free throw line.
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