A: Let's not get ahead of yourself, on two counts. I think championship visions are way too premature for any team battling for a No. 3 seed in a conference. Second, Johnson and Whiteside are not rookies. But your greater point, or at least what I took from it, is heartening, that this team is starting to create a future, and at times we forget just how much of a progression Johnson had made before his shoulder surgery. To me, that's why you do whatever it takes to retain Whiteside. Then you can have the immediate, win-now rotations with Dwyane Wade, Joe Johnson, Goran Dragic, Luol Deng and possibly Chris Bosh, but also have a next wave building momentum. For a team without many draft picks in coming years, it likely is the best way to sustain.