The Caps still look like a solid, contending team — but they haven’t won a playoff series since that magical run five seasons ago, and they are aging by the minute.
The Wizards? Since they went to back-to-back Finals in 1978 and 1979, they haven’t won 50 games in a season or reached the conference finals. They finished 12th in the Eastern Conference last season and might — might — make the 10-teams-per-conference playoffs this season.
Even the soccer teams have fallen off dramatically. D.C. United, which won three titles in the first four seasons of Major League Soccer, last won a playoff game in 2015.