"It was a bad move," Magic coach Doc Rivers admits. "Horrible move."

It is ironic that two seasons after trading Ben Wallace to the Detroit Pistons to help land Grant Hill the Magic, one game down to the Charlotte Hornets in the opening round of the NBA playoffs, are lacking two major ingredients; rebounding and defense.  The irony is that they player they shipped was the same player who led the NBA in rebounds this season and was named the NBA?s Defensive Player of the Year only days back.

In the meantime the Magic?s acquisition continues to spend more and more time on the sidelines with yet another instance of the injured ankle that some believe will end his career prematurely.  While Orlando laughed on the day Hill bolted for ?greener pastures?, Detroit is laughing now, some even joking that if the Pistons get past the Raptors Wallace will have won one more playoff series in Detroit than Hill ever did.

"It's part of sports," Magic GM John Gabriel says. "It's the nature of this job to be second-guessed. But I challenge you to find anybody back then who said getting Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady wasn't worth anything we had on our roster. It was a no-brainer back then, but now it isn't."