Washington Wizards Get No Love On FanSided's Fandom 250
Washington Wizards have a loyal fan base despite the losing, but didn’t get much love on FanSided’s recent fan base ranking – Fandom 250.
Recently, FanSided ranked the top 250 fan bases in the world, including sports, entertainment, superheroes and even politicians.
People love to live vicariously through others.
Most people will never hit a buzzer-beating jump shot in the NBA, walk across the red carpet or run for President of the United States. That’s what being a fan is all about. It allows people to become entrenched in a reality they will never experience.
Washington Wizards fans have seen it all – and by all, I mean mostly losing seasons.
The team hasn’t won a championship since 1978. By now, most of the fans supporting the team weren’t even alive when the Wizards were a contender.
Personally, I fell in love with the team in the mid-2000s when Gilbert Arenas, Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison roamed the Verizon Center. I was always a basketball fan and even though I moved to New York in 2000, I just never found myself rooting for the New York Knicks.
I gravitated towards the Wizards because the team was just…different.
Arenas was way ahead of his time, pulling up from 10 feet beyond the 3-point arc.
More from Wiz of Awes
He was charismatic, both on and off the court.
When he wasn’t hitting game winning shots and raising his arms before the ball even went through the basket, Arenas was blogging about his career.
He was one of the primary reasons why I even began writing about the team, actually.
Butler and Jamison were ahead of their time too.
Butler was a hard-nosed defender, but could score 25+ points on any given night. He was kind of what Jimmy Butler is today.
Jamison was one of the first stretch fours I remember watching in the NBA.
Capable of scoring inside and out, Jamison became one of the league’s most unique offensive threats.
Washington had three All-Stars and all of them were different in their own way. It was a fun team, to say the least. It didn’t hurt that Arenas built a reputation of being an absolute madman off the court, making the team that much more enjoyable to follow.
Through it all – the playoff battles against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers to Gun Gate – Washington Wizards fans stuck around.
The success hasn’t been there, yet people still have pride in the district’s basketball team.
Currently, the Wizards are near the bottom of the Eastern Conference Standings – the exact spot the team has been for years.
But the fans are still there.
So with all of that said, the Wizards didn’t get much love on Fandom 250. Michael Jordan, who played for the Wizards for a short time in the early 2000s (but we’ll forget that ever happened), was the only person with any connection to the team to get ranked.
This article originally appeared on 
