The Washington Wizards Shouldn't Tank Just To Get Blake Griffin

There’s about 14 games remaining in the NBA regular season, which for some fans of the Washington Wizards, is the final lap of the epic failure that has been the franchise this season.

No sign of Gilbert Arenas and the potential of Brendan Haywood coming back for a few games has only been trumped by one uniform thought throughout Wizards nation—the possibility of landing the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, and the rights to Oklahoma's Blake Griffin.

Some say that, to ensure such a pick, the Wizards should coast into the offseason and enhance their chances of picking up Griffin with the top spot.

But fortune just isn’t the Wizards' style.

And that’s why the team shouldn’t tank for what fate has already minimized its chances of receiving.

Do you really believe that a team that has fired its coach and had two starters out for the entire season has chance on its side?

This same team, before it fired Eddie Jordan and had Arenas and Haywood out for the year, annually had Arenas, Butler or Jamison go out with injury just prior to the playoffs?

For whatever cosmic curse the Wizards have been forced to endure, there’s no logical reason to assume it will suddenly reverse course so Washington can land Blake Griffin.

And even if it did, the last time fate extended a hand to the Wizards, the cosmic joke turned out to be Kwame Brown.

Let the draft take its course. There’s no reason to ask proud players like Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler to mail it in, specifically when they are still in mentoring mode for most of the Wizards big dummies.

If it’s not Griffin, then there’s sure to be another player poised to underwhelm Wizards nation and bear the brunt of Arenas’ cruel rookie hazing techniques.

Fate is already against us. There’s no need to give her more ammunition.

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