DAN DALY: In draft, timing is No. 1 thing

Once again at lottery time, the Wizards were cursed with too much ping - or not enough pong. The jewel of the 2009 draft, Blake Griffin, will go to the Clippers, and Washington fans will spend the next decade wondering how a power forward with Karl Malone's muscle and Amare Stoudemire's spring might have fit in with Agent Zero and Co. (Wild guess: They probably would have found a way not to bump into one another.) Yes, you can obsess too much about getting the first overall pick. As history has shown, it's not always the key to happiness. But ... Email </a