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At the End of the Day, All You Have is Memories

The main focus of this post is a video which you can see at the bottom of this post.  Normally with videos I like to post them as a FanShot, add some witty comment, and then I just let you guys comment away because the video usually speaks pretty well for itself.  However with this video, I feel compelled to provide a little backstory before we get to the embeddable video goodness.

This July, I'm turning 21 years old.  I've seen the Wizards win one playoff series since I was born.  Now that I know I won't be seeing the Wizards win another playoff series before I'm legal, I find myself lthinking back at the one team that was able to break the mold.

Sure, fans from other teams are probably reading this and laughing right now.  I mean, how sad is it that the my favorite team's best season didn't even include a second-round playoff win?  Not only that, but until another team surpasses them, I have to live knowing that the best Wizards team that I've seen in my lifetime included Kwame Brown.

It might not be the most illustrious history ever, but it's ours.  When I look back at this 2004-05 squad, I'm sure that I get the same feelings that fans of other teams do when they think of the best squad from their favorite team, even though most, if not all of them went further in the playoffs than mine did.  Maybe that's wrong, but it's not going to stop me from being nostalgic when I see a highlight reel about the best Wizards team that I've seen in my lifetime.

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I can relate

The last time the Wizards won anything of note, I was being born.

But we have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and keep pressing on.

by Pryme on Apr 10, 2009 9:49 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Don't worry

Barring injury (I know, I know world’s biggest caveat) next year’s team will be better than that. Trust me.

by MR on Apr 10, 2009 10:12 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

next year's team

will be vastly improved, i think. call me a homer, but i think we’re not only a playoff team, but a home court playoff team. that has me feeling positive

what has me feeling negative (really negative, actually) is that we have arenas under contract (top 3 least tradeable contract in the league) for 5 more years. to me, this means that for the next 5 years, our only chance to be a successful team is to score 110+ per game

2 other worries:
1. that we hire avery johnson or someone of his ilk
2. that we don’t get griffin or rubio in the draft. maybe harden could be useful to us, but wow does that leave a bad taste in the mouth as the #3 pick

by chrisrdowd on Apr 10, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

don't worry...

we’re pretty much all homers here

Representing DC with Wizards & Stuff - Truth About It.net and Bullets Forever.

by Truth About It on Apr 10, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Remember

The pick will likely be traded if its not 1 or 2. So I wouldnt worry too much about that.

by lj15 on Apr 10, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

My son was born the year the Bullets won...

… and my daughter was born the following year, when we last made it to the finals.

They have yet to produce any grandchildren but when they do I expect that we will win our next Championship.

So hurry up, kids, yer dad is not getting any younger!

by khrabb on Apr 10, 2009 11:41 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'll be 29 in June

I’ve only “seen” the Wiz win one playoff series, but have been alive for two…..lucky me.

Representing DC with Wizards & Stuff - Truth About It.net and Bullets Forever.

by Truth About It on Apr 10, 2009 12:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Makes two of us

I was born 8 days after the Bullets won their only title. And I have scores of memories from that season. The opening night comeback with 6 guys, the buzzer beaters against the Bucks and the Warriors (Gilbert). Laron Profit’s putback to beat the Bobcats and break a 5-game losing streak (I was there) and then of course the comeback from 2-0 down to beat the Bulls.
It was a marvelous happy time that started one of the greatest 360 days I’ve ever had as a sports fan. Wizards run to the 2005 playoffs, the return of baseball to D.C., the Nationals run to first in June, the Redskins miracle win in Dallas, the unbeaten December that took the Redskins to the playoffs, the rebirth of Georgetown basketball and George Mason’s run to the NCAA Final Four.

"Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home." --- Daffy Duck

by George Templeton on Apr 10, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I must be old

I remember hearing the fat lady sing – while Dick Motta, Wes, E, Kupchak and Greg Ballard celebrated…

Bullets Forever - where "Dagger ! " happens......

by Rook6980 on Apr 10, 2009 4:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I was a kid, but I had a “Fat Lady Sing” t-shirt

by MR on Apr 10, 2009 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nice vid but the music in the second half killed it for me. I remember those years fondly it was a nice time for Wizards basketball. I remember it being the first season with out Jordan and it reminds me of how capable this team was especially with Jordan those previous years. I don’t care what you thought about his stay with us those years but you gotta admit the guy brought excitement back to Washington. It was the last time their arena was consistently being sold out. With hopefully a stronger nucleus of veterans and younger player’s finding their roles with fear of “division”, I have hope for the future. Don’t mean to bring “division” up, lol, but hey can you blame me?.

"But like my father said, you want Jennifer Lopez but does she want you? No. I'll just take what ever they give to me."-Julian Taverez

by purpleonblack86 on Apr 10, 2009 10:55 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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