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[QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4293804, member: 5798"]
That was a l-o-n-g time ago.

[B]Fun fact -[/B] Why was the name abruptly changed from one (the bullets) that carried an NBA World Championship to the Wizards? And why change the patriotic color scheme of red white and blue to white blue and bronze?

When did the Bullets change their name? In 1973, after moving to Landover, Maryland, they played a season as the Capital Bullets, and in [B]1974[/B] they became the Washington Bullets, a name they kept until 1995, when owner Abe Pollin renamed the team the Washington Wizards because of the violent overtones of the word bullets.

On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and close friend of then Wizards owner Abe Pollin, was assassinated at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Four days after his funeral, Pollin made the announcement that his team would no longer go by the name "Bullets," after 32 years of sporting the moniker. "My friend was shot in the back by bullets,” Pollin said. “The name ‘Bullets’ is no longer appropriate for a sports team.”
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