Also, from a Mavs perspective (which I am a Mavs Fan) then we get a guy (probable Jordan Hill) who won’t make immediate huge impact, but will add much needed altheticism and size in the paint. Plus, if he does mature than it adds a future piece to the puzzle that will become the dallas mavericks post dirk era. Mavs would then need to add a shooter with the 22 pick. I think if Wayne Ellington is available then he might be a good pick up. A lot of people say Gerald Henderson. Either way, this player would be a bench player. Mavs then should trade the expiring contract of Erick Dampier and Jerry Stackhouse to the Suns who would save more money than the deal with the cavs for Shaq.I think the last piece would be getting a better back-up center than Ryan Hollins. Ryan Hollins is a good 3-5 minute guy a game, but you need another guy who could pull 15-20 mins behind Shaq. I think one of the better players to get would be Gortat from the Magic. He is a restricted free agent, but with the finals run he might get some other offers. He is a great defender and would pair well with Dirk, who he has played with before in Germany. Then you have a real contending team in the Dallas Mavericks, assuming kidd and bass are resigned.

The team would be: dirk, shaq, kidd, Josh Howard, Antoine Wright (would still get less mins than bench players, but would start to give mavs a stronger bench). Coming off the bench, you would have Jordan Hill, Nick Young (who I think has a real future), JJ Barea, Gortat (or equivalent back-up center), #22 draft pick, Brandon Bass, Ryan Hollins. etc. .

the young kobe didnt have the mindset of guarding the best player’s opposing wing yet but his D was still there and his rebound numbers almost doubled Youngs in their 2nd years.

There isnt going to be many players like Kobe but i do think Nick Young will be a nice rotation player in the future but to me hes just gonna be a scorer and if hes stuck with a coach that doesnt focus on D, its gonna be tough for him to develope into a complete player. But If anyone in the league that could bring the best out of the players on the offensive end, it would be Flip Saunders so I will be excited to see how Flip plays NY in a very offensive minded Wizards Team.

Washington Gets Vince Carter, while using the No5 pick on Tyreeke evens
Jersey Gets TMAC, its not as if they’re going to the playoffs next year anyway and the Rockets get, expiring contract fillers. Mike James, deshawn stevenson, Yi Jinlan. and Ethan thomas after he picks up his option.

Heres what the wiz roster could look like.
PG. Arenas SG Carter SF Butler PF Jameson C Haywood
Bench
PG Evens SG Young Ect

young Kobe didn’t play any defense or rebound the ball when he first started.I just looked at both of their stats and they compare favorably.In Kobe’s second year he averaged 3 more mins than Nick Young and put up 4 more pts.A true Wizards fan like me who went to games saw that earlier this season when Eddie Jordan was running the team Nick Young was averaging 15ppg in about 25mins a game.Then Ed Tappscot came in with his no type of rotation having ass and Young’s mins dropped.Hell i’ve seen alot of games where he the #1 scoring option off the bench didn’t even get in the 1st quarter.The Wizards had plenty of games under Tappscot where they couldn’t get shots falling and still NY was on the bench only to start the second quarter when they are down by 10 or more.Flip will bring out the best in NY and all of you will see why I call him Young Kobe