Despite sporting the worst record in the Eastern Conference, the Wizards did not go into the draft thinking they needed to rebuild.

Because players like Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood lost virtually their entire seasons to injuries, the front office believes that the team will more closely resemble the one that made four consecutive playoff runs when training camp resumes rather than the atrocity that masqueraded as a professional basketball team in the 2008-09 season, so the plan was to retool rather than rebuild.

With that mindset, the Wizards dealt their way out of the first round, trading the fifth overall pick to Minnesota and getting in return veteran forward Mike Miller and combo guard Randy Foye.

"We're excited about what we did," president of ...More