In the conference final, the Wizards would fall behind 4 points to 1 to the Los Angeles Galaxy and their season seemed to be coming to an end.

The Wizards would lead early on an 11th minute goal by Miklos Molnar.

The Wizards would return to the top half of the West in 2003 with a record of 11 – 10 – 9.

In the first round, the Wizards would defeat the Colorado Rapids in the aggregate goal series, 3 – 1.

The Wizards would twice take the lead, but twice, the Earthquakes battled back and forced golden goal in overtime by Landon Donovan in the 117th minute, which sent his team to the 2003 MLS Cup and the Wizards home.

Looking to build on their momentum from the previous year, the Wizards would start out 2004 mediocre before turning around in the summer and contending for the conference championship.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Wizards would lose the first game to defending champions San Jose Earthquakes, 2 – 0, putting in a seemingly impossible situation to score 3 goals and concede none in game 2 of aggregate goal series.

In that game, the Wizards would easily hold off the Los Angeles Galaxy on two Davy Arnaud goals to send the Wizards to their second MLS Cup.

The Wizards would get off to a great start as Jose Burciaga caught United unprepared as he scored a long range goal in the 6th minute.

Things would go from bad to worse in the 26th minute for the Wizards as Alex Zotinca committed an own goal.

The Wizards hoped that that would propel them to more goals as they put 10 shots on goal.

In the conference final the Wizards would come up short to the Houston Dynamo, 2 – 0.

Shortly after the release of the adventure book Wizards of the Coast announced they would not be releasing any further products for the game.

Kevin Durant dunking against the Washington Wizards on March 11, 2011On July 2, 2008, upon settlement of a lawsuit with the city of Seattle, the Seattle SuperSonics announced they would relocate to Oklahoma City on July 3, and begin play at Oklahoma City's Ford Center in the 2008 – 2009 NBA season.

In September 2008, Main Street Pictures announced that it would collaborate with Bakshi on a sequel to Wizards.

In 1990, Richard Garfield approached Wizards of the Coast with the idea for a new board game called RoboRally, but was turned down because the game would have been too expensive for Wizards of the Coast to produce.

In November 1999, Wizards announced that Gen Con would leave Milwaukee after the 2002 convention.

The gaming center was closed by March 2001 and eventually Wizards announced in December 2003 that it would close all of its stores in order to concentrate on game design.

On April 23, 2007, Weis announced Wizards of the Coast had not renewed Sovereign's license, and that Dragonlance RPG game supplements and accessories would only be released through the end of the year.

On May 10, 2012, Fantasy Flight Games announced that they would be releasing Android: Netrunner in the third quarter of 2012, a new card game based on Netrunner, under license from Wizards of the Coast.

On September 20, 2011, Mike Mearls announced that Cook would be taking over his " Legends & Lore " column for the Wizards of the Coast website ..

The Wizards lost only 2 games in September and finished the season on a 6 game unbeaten streak to finish 14 – 9 – 9, for the Western Conference regular season championship.

Bakshi first turned to rotoscoping because he was refused by 20th Century Fox for a $ 50, 000 budget increase to finish Wizards, and thus had to resort to the rotoscope technique to finish the battle sequences.

The Wizards struggled to finish the season with Arenas and teammate Caron Butler both being injured.

The Wizards had losing records for the 1998 and 1999 seasons, ending up last place in the Western Conference both years.

In 1999, Wizards of the Coast was itself purchased by Hasbro, Inc.

In January 1999, Wizards of the Coast began publishing the highly successful Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Seeing the continued success of Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, the game and toy giant Hasbro bought Wizards of the Coast in September 1999, for about US $ 325 million.

Avalon Hill was made a division of Wizards of the Coast, in late 1999 ; the company had been purchased by Hasbro in the summer of 1998.

Vince Caluori became President of Wizards of the Coast in November 1999.

After the company's great success in 1999 with Pokémon, Wizards of the Coast acquired and expanded " The Game Keeper ," a US chain of retail gaming stores, eventually changing its name to " Wizards of the Coast ", including the company's flagship gaming center on the Ave in Seattle for several years, and its retail stores, which were mostly in shopping malls in the US.

A book by the same name was written by Ray and Valerie Vallese and released by Wizards of the Coast in 1999.

In 1999, Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast.

By 2008 Hasbro ( which purchased Wizards of the Coast in 1999 ) had allowed the trademarks to expire.

In 1999 Terry Pratchett made both Jack Cohen and Professor Ian Stewart " Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University " at the same ceremony at which the University of Warwick gave Terry Pratchett an honorary degree.

At the first „ Wizards of OS “ conference in July 1999 a spontaneous discussion round was founded after the panel „ New Economy ?“.

Pratchett made them both " Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University " at the same 1999 ceremony where the University of Warwick gave Pratchett an honorary degree.

The title features digital version of cards from the first three sets of the trading card game originally released in English by Wizards of the Coast between 1998 and 1999, as well as exclusive cards not available outside of the game.

TSR was purchased by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, which in turn was purchased by Hasbro in 1999.

The first Wizards of OS conference took place in 1999, the third conference in 2004 had the topic " The Future of the Digital Commons " and featured, among others, the launch of the German translation of the Creative Commons licenses.

Hasbro ( parent company to Milton Bradley ) moved Axis & Allies to its Avalon Hill imprint ( specializing in board wargames ) in 1999, and Avalon Hill itself was made into a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, another Hasbro imprint ( specializing in board games for a more dedicated " gamer " audience ), in 2004.

In 1999, Legend of the Five Rings changed hands once more when Wizards was purchased by toy-making giant Hasbro ( however, " Wizards " continued operations under their original name ).

In 1999, Wizards of the Coast published Keep on the Borderlands, a novelization by Ru Emerson for the Greyhawk Classics series.

He spent the 1998 season with the MetroStars before being traded, along with Tony Meola, to the Kansas City Wizards for Mark Chung and Mike Ammann on January 28, 1999.

Lalas spent one season with the Wizards before announcing his retirement on October 10, 1999.