


Washington Wizards basketball team and one of seven teams in the Atlantic distribution of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Started as the Chicago Packers, the team also played as the Chicago Zephyrs, Baltimore Bullets, and Washington Bullets before adopting its present name. The Wizards play in the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., and dress in jerseys of red, white, and blue. As the Washington Bullets, the team reached the NBA Finals four times in the 1970s. In 1978 they won the NBA title with a team that featured center Wes Unseld and forward Elvin Hayes.
The NBA Washington Wizards Basketball came into the 1961-62 season as the Chicago Packers, winning only 18 games in its first season. In spite of the bad start, the team boasted talented rookie center Walt Bellamy, who averaged 31.6 points and 19 rebounds per game and won the league's rookie of the year award. Forward Terry Dischinger won the award a year later. Washington Wizards Tickets. The franchise briefly changed its name to the Zephyrs for the 1962-63 season, but in March of that year the team moved to Baltimore and became the Bullets in honor of the area's ammunition factories, which had formed bullets during World War II (1939-1945).