Hello, and Goodbye, to James Lang

James Lang, pre-weight loss. Hardly looks the same. (2006 photo by Jonathan Newton - TWP) When James Lang came back from his traveling basketball life, back from Israel and Provo, Utah and a whole bunch of other places and back to D.C., he saw Caron Butler. Caron almost didn't recognize him. "He was like, 'Big fella, that's you?' " Lang reported. "I was like, 'Yeah, it's me.' " Butler's confusion is understandable. Media members and team staffers did the same double takes when Lang showed up for the Wizards' pre-Summer League mini-camp last week. The big man left D.C. in the spring of '07 as a jolly, baby-faced 23-year old kid, released to make room for Mike Hall. He returned to the Verizon Center 45 pounds lighter, with a serious face and serious talk about his career. "I'm not a boy no more," Lang said. "I'm grown, mature, and