Can someone post the espn insider article on the Wizards?

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It is by Chad Ford on "reinventing themselves"

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WASHINGTON WIZARDS

Starting Five: Gilbert Arenas, Larry Hughes, Jarvis Hayes, Antawn Jamison, Brendan Haywood
Key Subs: Kwame Brown, Etan Thomas, Jared Jeffries, Juan Dixon
Outlook: First, Michael Jordan built the Wizards from the dust by his sheer presence in the owner's box.

Then he destroyed them when he donned a jersey and started systematically picking apart teammates.

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Predictions
Marc Stein: 12th in East
Chad Ford: 10th in East
Now it's up to another Jordan, Eddie Jordan, to rebuild them from the rubble.

Last year was a feeling-out process as Eddie Jordan and new GM Grunfeld got a feel for the pieces that MJ had assembled and tried to work their one big offseason signing, Arenas, into the group.

This year, Jordan and Grunfeld are no longer evaluating. They've taken charge. Leery of adding another young player to the roster, the team shipped off two headaches (Jerry Stackhouse and Christian Laettner) and the No. 5 pick in the draft to Dallas in return for proven low-post scorer Jamison.

Last year Arenas, Hughes and Dixon provided plenty of backcourt firepower, but the frontcourt often fizzled. The team is hoping Jamison brings some balance to the equation.

The key word here, however, is hope.
Eddie Jordan
Jordan is hoping a team built around three former Warriors transforms into a winner. Good luck.

Jordan has his hands full. His nucleus consists of three former Warriors who didn't exactly win a lot of games when they played together two seasons ago in Oakland. That can't be good.

Jordan desperately is trying to implement the same Princeton offense that worked wonderfully in New Jersey the past several years. To get it to work he needs players to cut, pass and move without the ball. The problem is that his best players – Hughes, Arenas and Jamison – all prefer to go it alone. There's a reason that the Wizards ranked last in assists and first in turnovers last season.

The Wizards believe Jamison, who has a rep as being unselfish regardless of what his stats may say, will buy into the system and become the leader this team desperately needs both on the floor and in the locker room.

The team also hopes that Jamison will light a fire under Brown. Trading for Jamison sent a clear message to Brown that the team isn't going to wait around for him anymore. Could it be just what Brown needs to get his career back on track?

Brown is already showing signs of life, despite the fact that he still hasn't been cleared to play after he broke his foot in a pickup game this summer. He's been outspoken for the first time in his career and appears to be angry at the Wizards. It couldn't come at a better time.

For all the talk about Jamison and Arenas, the Wizards know as well as anyone that if they have any shot of breaking this vicious cycle of lottery appearances they have to find a way to turn on Brown.

Remaking the offense, swapping a few player here and there, and changing the front office are all good. But if the Wizards can reinvent Brown this season, they'll be on to something.