History of the Wizards
In 1991, the team names the first female president of a franchise in the history of the NBA. The president Susan O'Malley came from a long line of owners of professional teams, as she is the sister one of the former owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Peter O'Malley and the daughter of another Walter O'Malley.
In 1995, the owner, Abe Pollin decided to rename the Washington Bullets and held a contest to decide on a new name, some of the choices were for the Express, the Sea Dogs, the Dragons and the Wizards. In May the Bullets became the Wizards, however this caused some controversy because one of the ranks in the Ku Klux Klan is the Wizards. However the name stuck and the team stayed the Wizards. They also moved into the MCI Center that changed its name to the Verizon Center.
In 1999, after retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan became the Wizards' president of basketball operations, and in 2001, he came out of retirement to play on the team, however he could not play the entire season because of injuries. In the next season Michael Jordan did return to play and he was listed as the only player to play in whole of the 82 games.
When this season was over, the owner Abe Pollin fired Jordan as the team president, he justified this move by pointing out that he made poor trades, benched key players and used the 1st draft pick by choosing a high school kid named Kwame Brown. Losing Michael was in itself a bad move since the team lost really badly in 2003-04 seasons. The team replaced Jordan with Coach Eddie Jordan and the main General Manager who is called Ernie Grunfeld.
In 2004-2005 the team was moved to the new Southeast Division and made it to the playoffs, they also had two players in the 2005 Eastern Conference All Star Team. In the 2005-2006 they returned for the playoffs and almost won. They suffered a loss in the game to the Cavaliers in overtime.
Now with their 2007-08 Roster boosting Oleksiy Pecherov, Nick Young and Dominic McGuire. The team is ready to make this their best season yet; they are taking one game at a time.