Wizards Franchise

[Power And Proud]

Well, the season has come to an end, and the Wizards lead the NBA with a record of 70-12. The will face the 8th seeded Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the playoffs as Michael Jordan may start and make one last run at the title.

[Power And Proud]

Time to announce the League Leaders and Team Leaders:

League Leaders:
Pts- Shaquille O'Neal with 30.0 points per game
Reb- Kevin Garnett with 13.1 rebounds per game
Blk- Kwame Brown with 4.1 blocks per game
Stl- Allen Iverson with 2.8 steals per game
Ast- Andre Miller with 10.2 assists per game

Team Leaders:
Pts- Jerry Stackhouse with 27.7 points per game
Reb- Kwame Brown with 8.9 rebounds per game
Blk- Kwame Brown with 4.1 blocks per game
Stl- Larry Hughes with 1.1 steals per game
Ast- Larry Hughes with 7.8 assists per game

[Power And Proud]

Oh, on a side note, Kwame Brown averaged 21 points per game.

[Power And Proud]

Now to announce the NBA Awards, here's David Stern:

Stern: "First, with the league MVP, congratulations to the Lakers, Shaquille O'Neal."

Stern: "Second, with the NBA Most Improved Player, congratulations to the Wizards 3rd year forward, Kwame Brown."

Stern: "The NBA 6th Man of the Year Award goes to a player no one ever though would ever win it, congratulations, Michael Jordan."

Stern: "The NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, Ben Wallace. Well done Ben"

Stern: "Last but not least, the NBA's Rookie of the Year, congratulations to the Chicago Bulls, Mats Bulic."

Stern: "And finally, the NBA's GM of the Year Award goes to the Washington Wizards, MJForever."

Stern: "To announce the NBA's team's of the year, here's Wizards GM, MJForever."

MJF: "Thank you Mr. Stern. First with the All-NBA team.
C- Shaquille O'Neal
PF- Chris Webber
SF- Kevin Garnett
SG- Allen Iverson
PG- Jason Kidd"

"Congratulations to those players."

MJF: "The NBA's All-Defensive team
C- Ben Wallace
PF- Kwame Brown
SF- Shawn Marion
SG- Allen Iverson
PG- Darrell Armstrong"

"Well done"

MJF: "And finally the All-Rookie team.
M. Bulic (CHI)
A. Carter (IND)
J. Green (MIL)
R. Ranks (UTA)
R. Brown (SEA)

"Well done to those players. That brings an end the NBA Awards night. Goodnight everyone."

[Power And Proud]

The Wizards faced the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the playoffs. And as expected, the Wizards moved into the 2nd round by sweeping the Hawks 3-0. The Wizards were by Kwame Brown in the series, who averaged 30ppg and 10rpg.

The Wizards will face the Indiana Pacers in the second round.

[Boyk]

Good Shit there Troy.

Kwame looks like the MVP for next season

keep it up!

[Power And Proud]

After the Wizards sweeping of the Atlanta Hawks, Kwame Brown held a press conference when he returned to Washington DC.

Q: Kwame, congratulations on winning MIP. What are your personnal goals now?

KB: Well, next season, I hope to have a better year then I did this year, and maybe in 2 or 3 years, I can be an MVP candidate.

Q: Are you going to be the go-to-guy next season?

KB: I don't know, that's coach's decision. Coach has liked what I've done this year, and if he wants to take it one step further next season, that's great, but if not, no big.

Q: Can this team win the NBA Championship this season?

KB: Absolutely, I mean, we got to the finals last year, but are inexperience apart from Michael of coarse hurt us, but now we've been there, and we look to win it all this year, and send Michael out the way he should be.

Q: Are the rumors about a coaching change next year true?

KB: I have no idea. When Michael returns to the front office next season, probably in the GM position, if he wants to find a new coach, I'm cool wit dat. Coach Collins has been great.

Q: If Doug Collins isn't the head coach next year, who would you like to see be the head coach?

KB: Ummm, prolly GM MJForever. He's been at our training's this year, he's been very involved with the coaching decisions, sitting on the bench with the coach's at all the games. Yeah, so if Doug isn't here, I want MJForever as coach.

Q: Thanks Kwame.

KB: No problem.

[Power And Proud]

I have played Game's 1-4 in the 2nd round against Indiana. And the series is locked at 2-2. Wizards took Game 1, Pacers took Game 2, Wizards in a blowout in Game 3, and Wizards go down by 3 in Game 4.

The series returns to Washington for Game 5, goes back to Indiana for Game 6, and Game 7 if required will be in Washington.

[Power And Proud]

In the EC Finals against Indiana, I went on to win 4-3. I just couldn't win in Indiana, (except for Game 2) and now I face the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.

Game 1- The Lakers were lead by Derek Fisher with his parade of 3 point bombs, as the Lakers went on to claim Game 1 in LA.
Lakers lead 1-0

Game 2- The Wizards were unlucky not to win Game 1, and they kept to their game plan in Game 2, eventually getting a split in LA, as the Wizards took Game 2.
Series tied 1-1

Game 3- As the series moved to the nations capital, the Wizards took full advantage of their home court, as they went on to a very solid Game 3 win, led by Kwame Brown.
Wizards lead 2-1

Game 4- The Lakers were very dissappointed with their performance in the previous game, and led the game up until the final minute, with the Wizards stealing a 1 point win, and a chance to win the NBA Championship in Washington in Game 5.
Wizards lead 3-1

Game 5- At MCI Center, Washington DC
Game 6- At Staples Center, Los Angeles (if required)
Game 7- At Staples Center, Los Angeles (if required)

[Power And Proud]

WIZARDS ARE THE 2004 NBA CHAMPIONS! Riding the back of Kwame Brown, the Wizards led all the way, and despite a brief fightback from LA, who got the lead down to 6, the Wizards blew it back up to 18 points.

Congratulations to Kwame Brown on winning the 2004 Finals MVP award.

[Power And Proud]

OK, time to tell you about the off-season happenings.

First, retiring players:
D. Barros, M. Bullard, M. Curry, V. Del Negro, C. Gatling, L. Hunter, Mark Jackson, M. Jordan, G. McCloud, D. McKey, R. Miller, J. Newman, H. Olajuwon, M. Richmond and M. Strickland.

Draft Lottery/Picks:
#1- New Jersey/ pick unknown
#2- Phoenix/ pick unknown
#3- Milwaukee/ pick unknown
#29- Washington/ Danso Emeagwali (Center)

I forfeited my second round pick for salary reasons.

Re-Sign Players:
Walter McCarty- team did not re-sign
Etan Thomas- re-signed for 3 years, 100,000

Sign FA's (available points, 194,261):
Wizards signed SG Desmond Mason to a 7yr, 191,700 contract

Trade Players:
Wizards traded Jerry Stackhouse and Desmond Mason to Warriors for Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas

Wizards traded Brendan Haywood and Christian Laettner to Hornets for Jamaal Magloire

Season begins.

Signed FA's Mike Wilks, Corsley Edwards and John Amaechi to minimum contracts.

[Power And Proud]

Team Roster:

Starters
C- Magloire
PF- Kwame
SF- Jamison
SG- Hughes
PG- Arenas

Bench
Lue
Jeffries
Thomas
Dixon
Amaechi
Edwards
Wilks

IR
Emeagwali

[Boyk]

nice roster there Troy

[Mark.]

you should give amaechi good minutes hes a king

[Power And Proud]

Amaechi is the back-up center, and Thomas plays back-up PF.

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Five games into the 04-05 season, the Wizards have got off to a shaky start at 3-2. Kwame Brown continues to be a monster for the Wizards and is averaging 27 points per game, 10 rebounds per game, 2 assists per game and 6 blocks per game. Yet, he is not in the Top 5 MVP Candidates.

Andrew, can you explain that one to me? Why isn't Kwame in the Top 5?

[Mark.]

i rekon all u have to do is increase his scoring a littel or his rebounding, u play 12 quaters aye so dat shudnt be too hard if u play him a little more, make him your main man like pierce or mcgrady dat plays like the whole game or at lest 35 mins+. i had lebron with 37 points, 12 assists 3 blocks and 2 steals, but only 3 rebounds, and im crap at rebounding wit my team so i jst increased his assisting a bit and he was stragit in to number 2 candidate behind mcgrady who avs 39ppg 8 apg and 8 rpg.
anyweay hows old john going 4 ya??

[Power And Proud]

I play 6 min quarter while the simulated quarters are 12 mins. Could that be the reason? As for Amaechi, he's just being a role player, just going out and rebounding and getting garbage points, but when's he's on the court with Thomas, Etan dominates that boards.

[Mark.]

mmmm i think six minutes may be a bit too short i find 8 is best but that is with the fg% downa bit, give him a few more points i say

[Power And Proud]

Well in my OT win against Detroit, Kwame had 32 points, 5 more than his average.

[Mark.]

good stuff man kepp it up, wats ur record now??

[Power And Proud]

4-3

[Mark.]

good stuff i think having an even or slightly over 500% record is far more fun cos it makes the playoffs more of a challenge.
but sadly im 19-2 this season but i do have a team molded to my playing style.

[Power And Proud]

This is gonna sound weird, but last season when I went 70-12, I was kinda pissed coz I was winning so much with a young team. But I'm kinda annoyed that I'm not winning as much as I was last season with a team that has improved, despite trading away it's best player in Jerry Stackhouse.

[Mark.]

yeah man dats exactly what i mean, i hate winning by heaps but hate not being able to win all the time its pretty weird but dats how it is, im finished exams for the week so i mite play a couple b4 i have to play tonite.