All eyes are fixed on the end of the regular season in the NBA, and the Franchises are fighting it out to gain a position in the post season and to hold onto their dreams of getting hold of the NBA Trophy. As the teams battle it out on court a number of the Franchises have a fight 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 club with a good history and a great basis of fans. Many of the present Franchises are produced from massive investment when the Franchise For Sale decisions were available to prospective 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 during this collapse and are impatient for a turn around in the world markets. Throughout 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 much costs and so using the Franchises ability to make a return. The present NBA Franchises are taking this lin, as they don’t want a Franchise For Sale sign hanging at their headquarters. Throughout a number 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 began as the Chicago Packers in 1961, spent quite a few seasons in Baltimore, and at last arrived in Washington, as the Washington Bullets, in 1974.

After achieving only average success for a decade, the Bullets grew into a solid unit in the 1970s, formed around rough centre Wes Unseld and gifted scorer and re-bounder Elvin Hayes. Washington got to the NBA Finals four times through the 1970s and defeated the Seattle SuperSonics for the NBA championship in 1977-78.

The Bullets were a model of reliability throughout the '80s, creating 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 ended 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 era.

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

The 2002-03 season would be the final goodbye for one of the NBA's all-time great players as Michael Jordan finished his historic 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, beginning 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.