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About The Washington Wizards

After deciding to pull the trigger and move to the Baltimore area, the team garnered good fortune in drafting two future Hall of Famers in Earl Monroe and Wes Unseld in the late 1960s, along the way winning 57 games in the 1968-1969 season and making the playoffs. They improved their position in the next two years, with the team making its first NBA Finals in 1971. Foreshadowing the future success of sales of Washington Wizards tickets would be strong sales of Finals tickets that year.

The 1970s turned out to be a good decade for the future Washington Wizards, with the club be consistent playoff performers, having good-to-excellent seasons in most years. They’d make it back to the Finals yet again in 1975, when they were truly powerhouse in character, winning 60 regular season games. They’d finally put it all together, smoking the heavily-favored Seattle Supersonics in the 1978 Finals in seven hard-fought games, presaging the excitement the would be felt in the future, when Washington Wizards tickets would be sold.

The ancestors of the Washington Wizards (the Washington Bullets) would work hard and make a return to the Finals in the last year of the 1970s – making those four finals appearances for the decade – eventually going down to the ‘Sonics that year. They’d sell plenty of Washington Wizards tickets (even though they were named the Bullets at the time) that season. The next decade would be one that had a few up and a few downs, for the most part, though they’d still continue to make the playoffs with regularity, depending upon the talents of players like Manute Bol, Moses Malone and Jeff Malone.

For a number of years after 1985, the then-Washington Bullets would have difficulty climbing to a winning record, finally doing so in the 1996-1997 season, when they finally became the Wizards in May of the 1997. They’d also move into a new, stylish arena which is now known as the Verizon Center, in the process selling plenty of Washington Wizards tickets partly as a result of the excitement the team’s name change generated. 1997-1998 would see the team shoot their way to a winning record once again.

The years since then has seen an effort by the team to reengineer itself, and included a number of blockbuster trades and, finally, the return to the basketball court – playing for the Wizards – of the greatest NBA player of all time, Michael Jordan in time for the 2001-2002 season. Washington Wizards tickets sales really took off. Jordan would help propel the team to an 18-game improvement. He’d also gather a few good players to himself the following year. Players like Larry Hughes would help him – at age 39 – average 20 points a game for the season.

After Jordan again hung up the sneakers, the club went through a short period of tribulation, but has since seen a recent resurgence, storming to a 45 win season in 2005, making the playoffs with the help of Jerry Stackhouse and Christian Laettner. Washington Wizards tickets couldn’t have been hotter at the time. Under players like Caron Butler and Gilbert Arenas, the team looks to improve greatly from the 2008-2009 season, which was a struggle during many times of the year.