OK, this Tim Duncan fella can become a free agent after the 2002/03 season. If that's news to you, then I'm sorry to hear about your coma.

The Miami Heat, among other teams, have been carefully planning their future around being able to sign a Duncan, Jermaine O'Neal or Antonio McDyess. But while Miami is in position to clear roughyly $20 million in salary cap room at that time, Peter Vecsey suggests the Heat may make another move by the Trade Deadline.

And that is to trade Eddie Jones and Brian Grant to Dallas for Juwan Howard.

Or roughly akin to finding an Xbox on sale for $2.99 and getting Elizabeth Hurley to come home and set it up for you.

Would Riley dare help elevate the Mavs to nearly the equal of the Lakers for years to come? What's the point of rebuilding in the East when your Western Counterpart will be either the Lakers (Shaq + Kobe) or Dallas (Finley + Nowitzki + Jones + Nash + Grant)?