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The Wizards are essentially a rival-less team

This is SB Nation’s rivalry week. Team sites across the network will reflect on the rivalries they had throughout history.

For the Washington Wizards, this is ... sorta weird. They haven’t won 50 games in a regular season since the 1978-79 NBA season as the Washington Bullets. And because they were never a top-tier team for over 40 years, they’ve never really had any long-standing rivals that beat the test of time.

In the last two decades, the 2000s and the 2010s, the Wizards never really had a true mutual rivalry, at least in my opinion.