Brendan Haywood likes the trade, not the Poet

Wizards center Brendan Haywood, who missed virtually the entire 2008-09 season with a hand injury, is blogging now, as you know, and had this to say about the trade the Wizards pulled off to bring Randy Foye and Mike Miller to town. I think this trade should cause our fans to be very excited. Mike and Randy both fill huge needs for us. Mike Miller is one of the best shooters in the NBA and has proved to be highly accurate from behind the 3-point arc consistently throughout his career. He's a high IQ player and most importantly understands the importance of ball movement.Uh-oh. Mike Miller is a "high IQ player"? I'm not disputing it, I just find it funny to read an African-American player writing something about a white player that is so often written and said by white commentators. No doubt it is actually accurate in this instance, though. Anyway, on with it....Randy is also a great young player with a lot of potential. He's a guy who averaged a little over 16 points and over 4 assists per game last year and has the ability to play both guard spots very well. He can carry the load for a team if needed and will provide a great insurance policy for us in case Gilbert Arenas happens to go down again.A great deal was made here by our GM Ernie Grunfeld, who has a history of pulling off these types of deals. Let's not forget how he brought in All-Star Antawn Jamison for an aging Christian Laettner and Jerry Stackhouse. He was also responsible for bringing in All-Star Caron Butler for Kwame Brown. This is just another great trade to move our franchise in the right direction. I think it will produce great dividends right away. I can see us winning the Southwest Division, especially if Hedo Turkoglu leaves the Orlando Magic via free agency!So NBA GMs, if you're listening, please offer Hedo a big contract so that he leaves Orlando because I'm not trying to see him and Dwight Howard doing any more pick and rolls! It was lethal!Okay, so he likes the trade, doesn't like playing against Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu. Fair enough. So, does Brendan have any goodbyes to say to the departing Wizards players? Indeed, he does.On a sad note, we're sad to see Darius Songaila leave our team. He's a true professional and did way more than he was asked to for our team, especially last year with all of our injuries. He's a good friend of mine and I'll miss him as well as the Washington staff and fans - we wish him luck!Darius gets a friendly hug on his way out, but, as you probably noticed, nothing for Etan "the Poet" Thomas, with whom Brendan shares a volcanic personal history. I guess some feuds can't be buried, but Haywood and Thomas will have a chance to bury that feud in each other's spines this year when the Wizards and Timberwolves play -- twice. Unless, of course, one or both are out with injuries. That's a distinct possibility, of course, especially with the notoriously fragile Etan Thomas.