ESPN The Magazine has published their annual rankings of every franchise in all four major pro sports, where teams are ranked on a combination of coaching, management, players, fan experience, bang for the buck, affordability, stadium experience and their track to a title.
This year, the Wizards moved up from 73rd to 63rd out of 122 teams, thanks to improvements in seven of the eight categories. The only category where the team dropped was coaching, where the Wizards fell from 98th to 105th. Clearly, Randy Wittman's playoff performance this spring wasn't enough to change the minds of the fans surveyed, unless the survey was done before the Wizards started their playoff run in April.