Charles Barkley Will Only Call The Wizards The Bullets Because The Wizards Name Is Stupid
via – The Bulls “are [No. 1] one if Derrick Rose is healthy,” Barkley said. “Chicago and Cleveland, they’re the two best teams in the Eastern Conference. Then I think you’ve got the Bullets, and…” “The Bullets?” someone asked. “The Bullets,” Barkley repeated. “I told you man, I’m not calling them the Wizards. That’s stupid.” “No, that’s stupid not calling them the name of their team,” Kenny Smith argued. “That’s their name,” Ernie Johnson added. “I told you,” Barkley repeated. “The only crooks in D.C., they’re in Congress. But Toronto and the Wizards are the third- and fourth-best teams in the Eastern Conference,” Barkley went on. “You called them the Wizards,” Johnson pointed out. But by this point, everyone was too busy laughing to argue.
Can we do it? Can we pull off the “two name-change controversies in one city” extravaganza?? I think pretty much everyone agrees Wizards is a stupid name. The old owner of the Bullets, Abe Pollin, changed it because DC was so crime-riddled and he worked a lot with the youth or whatever and he wanted to change the image and didn’t want the name of the basketball team he owned to influence anyway. I guess that’s fair, but Bullets was, and still is, such a cool name for a team. It’s original, and it’s awesome. It’s not some lame animal or something ridiculous like Utah Jazz. Yea, bullets kill a ton of people in DC, but what can ya do? You win some you lose some. The thing about the Wizards now are they aren’t really defined by their stupid name, but more of the red, white, and blue color scheme and dope jerseys. They just need a better name to go with them.
Oh, and it’s still going to happen, with Rose sitting out games because his future daughter might get married in 30 years.
