If you remember, the Wizards lined up everything to go after Kevin Durant in free agency, including by letting defensive specialist Trevor Ariza leave. Turns out, Wall still wonders ‘what if’ and says he knew Durant wasn’t coming to Washington. “One thousand percent. We still think about that to this day. I feel like that was the biggest piece we lost,” Wall said whether he felt they should have kept Ariza. “We felt like we weren’t getting Kevin, just from knowing everything and thinking ahead. Like, okay we know Kevin’s not coming here so just keep the core we have. We have a great core with Trevor Ariza and all the guys we had. Don’t get me wrong, Paul was great for us. Paul Pierce was great for us, but we just felt like that experience we had with Trevor and the way he was shooting the ball and things and the way he defended, he was the perfect person we needed for LeBron [James]. Even though nobody’s going to stop LeBron, he just made it tough on LeBron.”