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Marc J Spears saying that the Wizards are interested in trading for Giannis is huge because Marc is very tapped in and very reliable and believable. However, the miami heat might have the best offer for Giannis without needing a 3rd team involved. So, do the Wizards trade Trae with young guys like Bilal, Kyshawn, and picks? I wouldn’t mind trading Trae tbh. But then we’ll need to search for a PG. Also, for spacing purposes trade AD for KD straight up in a separate trade. Potential lineup could be:

PG: Sign Ayo Dosunmu
SG: Draft AJ
SF: KD
PF: Giannis
C: Sarr

6th Man: Tre Johnson (with upside to start if he significantly improves)

This line up would immediately compete for a championship. Let’s Go Wizards!!

The Wizards got the #1 pick and we should be extremely fortunate!! Trading this pick away would be very shameful and very irresponsible. AJ Dybantsa is the only decision at 1, and I am a Darryn Peterson fan. AJ Dybantsa has way more upside in this draft because similar to Cooper Flagg, he can be both an All NBA player and All NBA Defensive Player in the same season for multiple years, even during his rookie contract when he’s barely getting paid. AJ Dybantsa at 6’9 with a 7 foot wingspan is the type of Wing that can be one of the future stars of the NBA. The Wizards cannot mess this up. Peterson is great! He will also be an All NBA player too. But you can’t teach 6’9. It’s genuinely that simple. AJ and Darryn are arguably the same players in how they play/operate offensively. But AJ has the edge with defensive upside, athleticism, strength, and positional versatility. Imagine the different lineups we can create with AJ. At 6’9, AJ can literally play 1-5 on the floor, especially in this small ball era of basketball. AJ is the can’t miss prospect and he will be a player that breaks the mold in the NBA and plays 75+ games a season. He will be the Anthony Edwards of the Wizards with the size. I love Will Dawkins, but he cannot mess this up. This is a layup of a pick. There’s no team to trade with us. Whether they’re in the lottery or outside the lottery. I checked every lottery team’s roster and they’re all not worth AJ. Don’t give me some Ace Bailey trade, it’s not worth it, and I personally like Ace, but not over AJ. I liked Dylan Harper and VJ Edgecombe more than Ace, so what makes Ace and another player the needle mover? Utah and Danny Ainge are slime balls. I hope the Wizards don’t even communicate with them. Danny Ainge especially knows his roster is mid and wants a guy he can build around similar to his Celtics days when he had two Wings in Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. He clearly knows the formula, it’s to have a do it all jumbo wing with positional versatility, so Will Dawkins should hang up that phone and do not entertain Danny Ainge! Moving forward, there’s no star to really trade for AJ because we’ll get AJ for super cheap for 4 years until we pay his rookie extension. Similar to the NFL and taking advantage of a rookie QB, we can build a team around AJ, just like how OKC built a cheap team and won a championship. That’s the model. Trading AJ for future picks doesn’t make sense either because there’s no prospect to look forward to in the near future, and the Wizards have multiple pick swaps with the Suns already from the Brad trade and draft capital from the Deni trade. We’re good on more draft picks, honestly. We have a generational wing and a collection of young talent that plays defense and wants to play fast with more on the way. AJ is our future and THE future of the NBA. AJ is already signed to Nike, AJ is on his way to being a highly endorsed player in the NBA, with likely a shoe line come soon. He alone will bring the Wizards back and skyrocket the team to heights we have never seen before or could ever imagine. AJ can literally be one of the Faces of the NBA moving forward, and he’s going to be with the Wizards. A team that’s been a laughingstock for years and the bud of all basketball jokes. For Will Dawkins, he has come a long way from drafting Bilal with his first pick as a GM, cleaning house and trading so many players, to now having the #1 pick, who can be an impactful #1 pick like Wemby, Ant, Cade, and Flagg. As much as I admire and respect Will Dawkins, he cannot mess this up or I will be beyond disappointed.

If you have seen the videos with the lottery balls for the NBA draft, then you know they only do the lottery balls for the top 4 picks only. After they finish those top 4 picks, the 5-14 picks in the lottery will be organized by regular season records. Which is why if the Wizards do not get a top 4 pick, we’re automatically regulated to the 5th pick. It is important to have this image in front of you because this is the position every team SHOULD be in. For example, if the Hornets aren’t the 14th pick then that means they moved into the top 4. If teams in the middle positions like Memphis, Atlanta, or Dallas aren’t picks 7, 8, 9 or somewhere in that area they moved into the top 4. Any team that is not in there position as listed or at least close to it by a spot or 2 spots, means they moved into the top 4, which kicks out teams like the Wizards from a top 4 pick. The more teams you see out of there positions, the likelihood the Wizards are the 5th pick, unfortunately. It’s complicated to keep up with, but you’ll understand as you have this list in front of you as Mark Tatum announces teams. Hoping for the best.

I would trade AD in a heartbeat for KD! AD is having quite the media rollout, talking too much, sending cryptic PR messages that he wants to leave, but in a respectful manner. After the elimination of the Rockets and KD’s controversial season with his teammates. It seems like KD is probably gone too. And where KD is in his career, a KD and AD trade actually makes too much sense for both sides. The contracts literally match and no picks are needed at all. Just a 1 for 1. Plus, Trae and KD! Trae going to High School in Norman, Oklahoma and going to the University of Oklahoma is very familiar with KD. Plus, KD gets a point guard that he desperately needs! The last time KD was truly competitive was on the Brooklyn Nets and he had two PG’s (Kyrie and Harden) and obviously he was really successful with Steph. Trae Young and KD can revitalize this Wizards team. It just makes too much sense and I hope it actually happens! Wizards fans have come a long way since the Summer of 2016, when we were praying that unrestricted free agent KD would team up with John Wall and Beal. 10 years later, bringing KD to the Wizards is more realistic than ever before! Watching LeBron on the Lakers for the past 8 years shows me that KD needs a home like that, and Trae young can be his running mate, similar to LeBron and AD (ironic enough). And if we get a top 4 pick in this draft, which is a 52.1% chance, then we’re immediately contenders in the East!