The Suns finally dealt Markieff Morris to Washington http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nba/1843/markieff-morris for a protected first-round pick and some cap relief. The two players sent from the Wizards were Kris Humphries, whose intellectual caliber led him to marry a Kardashian, and DeJuan Blair, probably the only man in history to somehow play without an anterior cruciate ligament in EITHER knee. Blair was quickly waived, Humphries went right into the starting lineup of this victory-starved team.

Let’s face it, though: Stockpiling draft choices and then drafting teen-agers still learning how to play is a delusional approach to building a winning NBA team. Franchise or impact players are rarely in that group. And, if they are, it takes some time for them to mature.