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Well, probably not. Although if Wes Unseld was still the GM in D.C. it might have been possible.

But seriously folks, have you taken a look at the mock drafts floating around the net? There are some wild, wild variances out there. One had Shelden Williams as the No. 7 pick in the draft. Another had him going somewhere in the 30's. A few had Rashad McCants in the top 10 and another had McCants going to the Trail Blazers with the No. 35 pick. Another had Sean May, who's claimed all along he's coming back to UNC, going No. 4 in the draft. Huh?

The lesson here? Nobody really knows what's going to happen with the draft until we know everyone that's going to declare for it. But the tricky part is that it's hard to figure out whether people will declare when you don't have any idea where they might go in the draft.

Sean May and Shelden Williams seem to personify this confusion. Both dominant big men by college standards, it's very hard to project what they'll do in the NBA, where apparently it's very, very important to be 6-9, instead of 6-8, for some reason. More tangibly, May and Williams will need to show more of a face-up game in the pros, something they haven't needed to display in college. Can they do that? It's certainly possible. But it's also possible they might not. The difference between can/can't on this is the difference between lottery and mid-second round.

So until we have more answers, we watch and wait ... and wait.

But the joy of blogging is that we can still speculate - even wildly, if necessary.

I have this feeling that Shelden Williams will get enough mixed reviews from scouts and enough persuasion from Coach K and the Duke staff that he'll stay in Durham next season.

As for the UNC situation, I'll leave that to Carlton. As Jerry once said to George - "Good luck, with all that."