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Wizards To Add G League Affiliate For '18-19 Season; Could Bullets Name Be In Play?

The Wizards yesterday announced that they will officially "add an NBA G League team" ahead of the '18-19 season, becoming the 27th club to "run and operate its own affiliate," according to Candace Buckner of the WASHINGTON POST. The name of the team has not been announced, and the squad will "play its games in the Wizards’ as-of-yet constructed facility on the campus of the former St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Southeast DC." The facility, which will also "hold the Wizards’ practice floor and the Mystics’ home court, is scheduled to open" in '18 (WASHINGTON POST, 6/22). In DC, Dan Steinberg writes the new team "should be known as the Washington Bullets." This will be a "new franchise, one with no connection" to late Bullets Owner Abe Pollin, who "intentionally marched away from the Bullets name." This new team "isn’t burdened by a past name change." The name "would not be disrespectful to Pollin or his legacy," but rather "totally fresh." The Bullets would "almost certainly lead the G League in merchandise sales" and would "immediately have a fan base." They would "even make people think more kindly about the Wizards" (WASHINGTON POST, 6/22).

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