Big Midseason Trade

With the trade deadline approaching, teams at this point are trying to make trades that will take their team to title contention level aswell or trying to free up salary cap space for the 2010 legendary free agent class. When the Mavericks acquired Brendan Haywood, Caron Butler, and Deshawn Stevenson from the Wizards, they jumped from a playoff status team to the one of the top teams in the league.The Wizards basically gave those players away, all of whom were once viewed as key pieces to a dynasty along with Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas. Well, it looked like a dynasty on paper anyway; Gilbert Arenas, the superstar and franchise player on the team was plagued by injury's, and was recently suspended for the rest of this season for bringing guns to the Wizard's stadium in DC. After Gilbert was suspended, the Wizards realized that the dynasty was never going to happen and is now just shipping away the pieces. The Wizards acquired Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, James Singleton and Quinton Ross, but even more important to the Wizards, they cleared up cap space so that they could potentially sign a big free agent. In 2011, when Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony becomes a few agent, and the ordeal about "Gilbert's Guns" finally fades, Carmelo could possibly headed for Washington DC. Dallas on the other hand, will benefit from the trade in the near future. The trade gives them three starters and two outside scorers to compliment Dirk Nowitski, the career scoring leader of the franchise. This trade could put the Mavericks right up there with the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets as the top team in the Western conference.