Yesterday’s trade of Rashard Lewis for Trevor Ariza and Emeka Okafor brought a lot of criticsm to the Wizards and in particular their general manager Ernie Grunfeld. John Hollinger absolutely ripped into the Wizards (for some reason the ESPN link wasn’t working) in an article analyzing the trade which was highlighted by his quote “Seriously, can anyone explain why this guy is still running a basketball team?” However, unlike Hollinger I don’t mind this trade because like I said while we are guaranteeing ourselves 2 years of medicority, we are also setting ourselves up for success in 2012 if the dominoes fall our way (which we would need them to anyways to be successful). This title sounds very condescending but really this post is not meant to rip Grunfeld because of this most recent trade but the question I am asking myself is if EG (Ernie Grunfeld) really meant to set this team up for success in 2012 or was his plan for the team that he will be fielding in the next 2 years to be title contenders?  Read more...