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 clubs play it out on court many of the Franchises have a battle outside the court, with the modern day wage structure as it is, and the players expectations ever growing some of the Franchises are finding it tricky to survive in the present structure. In this article we will briefly look into the Washington Wizards, a team with a good history and a great basis of fans. Many of the present Franchises are produced from enormous investment when the Franchise For Sale decisions were available to potential backers. This is just beginning to be more obligatory in the present 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 throughout 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 using the least possible amounts. A Home Based Franchise delights itself on not having a great deal of costs and therefore using the Franchises ability to make a return. The present NBA Franchises are taking this approach, 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 demonstrate.

The Washington Wizards started as the Chicago Packers in 1961, spent quite a few seasons in Baltimore, and finally landed in Washington, as the Washington Bullets, in 1974.

After achieving only moderate success for a decade, the Bullets developed into a solid unit in the 1970s, developed around tough centre Wes Unseld and talented scorer and re-bounder Elvin Hayes. Washington achieved it to the NBA Finals four times through the 1970s and beat the Seattle SuperSonics for the NBA trophy in 1977-78.

The Bullets were a model of consistency during the ’80s, creating an NBA record by winning at least 35 games in each of 22 successive years, from 1967-68 through 1988-89. A seven-year postseason drought finished in 1996-97 when the Bullets made it to the playoffs, losing a hard-fought series to the Chicago Bulls. The ending game of that series, a 96-95 loss on April 30, 1997, marked the end of an age.

On May 15, the team officially became known as the Washington Wizards, a judgement made by owner Abe Pollin in conjunction with the Franchises anti-violence operation. At the same time, the Wizards prepared for a move from suburban Landover, Maryland, to the MCI Centre in downtown Washington.

The 2002-03 season would be the last goodbye for one of the NBA’s greatest players as Michael Jordan completed his remarkable 15 year career as a Wizard.

In his last 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 last year and shooting 45 percent from the field and 82 percent from the free throw line.