Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
The franchise that became the Washington Wizards was founded as the Chicago Packers in 1961, then became the Chicago Zephyrs before relocating to Baltimore in 1963 as the Baltimore Bullets. The team moved to Washington, D.C. in 1973 as the Capital Bullets (later Washington Bullets, and finally Washington Wizards in 1997). Washington's modern era began on December 2, 1997, when the Wizards played their first game at the newly opened MCI Center, a 20,700-seat downtown arena. The building carried three names over its three decades: MCI Center (1997–2006), Verizon Center (2006–2017), and Capital One Arena (2017–present).
- Current home: Capital One Arena (2017–present) — originally MCI Center (1997–2006), renamed Verizon Center (2006–2017), renamed again to Capital One Arena (2017–present)
Ticket Timeline's game data covers Wizards home games at the downtown Washington arena in its current and previous naming iterations, with emphasis on the modern era beginning in 1997.
If your ticket names MCI Center or Verizon Center, that's the same downtown Washington venue under earlier corporate names—the Wizards didn't move, only the sponsor changed.
Washington Wizards play home games at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Washington time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names an earlier name of the same building.