Washington Wizards 

The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division.  In 1973, after moving to Land over, Maryland, they played a season as the Capital Bullets, and in 1974 they became the Washington Bullets, a name they kept until 1995, when owner Abe Pollen renamed the team the Washington Wizards because of the violent  of the word bullet. Founded in 1961 as the Chicago Packers, the team relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1963 and became the Bullets. The Bullets reached the NBA play-offs for the first time in history during the 1964 -1965 season, but it was not until the 1970s that future Hall of Fame players such as Earl Monroe, Gus Johnson, Wes Unsold, and Elvin Hayes made the Bullets yearly contenders for the NBA championship. From the 1988–89 season to the 2003–04 season, however, Washington qualified for the postseason only once.