<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Similarly, the Washington Wizards had no choice but to attempt to turn lemons into lemonade when NBA steals leader Larry Hughes, who also averaged 22.0 points per game, agreed to a free agent deal to join LeBron James in Cleveland. Personnel officials widely praised the efforts of Washington general manager Ernie Grunfeld, claiming his team's net loss wasn't as nearly as bad as it could have been. "The Wizards rallied when the got Antonio Daniels," said the Western Conference general manager, who added the Caron Butler acquisition from the Kwame Brown trade was a valuable pickup. </div> The Waiting Game
