Tied with the hapless Los Angeles Clippers for the worst record in the NBA at 10-38, the Washington Wizards are quickly becoming a laughingstock of a franchise. The funny part is, the 10-38 record isn't their biggest problem in my eyes -- it's their decision makers in the front office.

Hiring Eddie Jordan way back when (he's since been canned) was the first indicator of Washington's organizational stupidity. I've been a New Jersey Nets fan all my life, and I was very familiar with Eddie Jordan during his tenure as an assistant coach of said Nets. Jordan always garnered a reasonable amount of media attention, despite the fact that he was merely an assistant, and I never understood that. I probably saw him interviewed over 50 times, and he always managed to sound generic, limited, and just plain dumb.

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This is not something I normally do, but it seems like everywhere I look and listen, there are faulty NBA power rankings. I have no choice but to improve upon what I've seen and heard. It's about that time for me to get my two cents in, but quickly I have to go over a couple rules:

(1) I'm not basing this entirely on records; otherwise there'd be little room for opinion.

(2) There's a little bit of projection going on, meaning it doesn't all have to be about this very moment in time.

That said, here we go...

1-Boston Celtics; 41-10, 2nd in the Eastern Conference

Yes, I'm completely aware of the fact that the Lakers beat the Celtics, in Boston, without Andrew Bynum last night. Still, I refuse to put all my eggs in one basket. I personally prefer the Lakers to the Celtics, and I was rooting for Los Angeles last night, but I'm reserving my biases for the purpose of this post.

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Some trades are simply mind-boggling. The Los Angeles Lakers' trade that sent Vladimir Radmanovic to the Charlotte Bobcats for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown, is alarmingly close to that dubious distinction. If "mind-boggling" isn't the best description, then just plain "dumb" should suffice.

This is an awful, awful trade for the Lakers. I'm sure casual NBA fans will dismiss this deal as an unimportant, minor trade -- but not so fast, my friends. Radmanovic is one of the premier three-point shooters in the NBA, and he's about as close to automatic as they come at 44 percent from beyond the arc. He'd fallen back into Phil Jackson's doghouse of late, and my guess is that The Zenmaster was entirely fed up with the player he often called a "Space Cadet."

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