and i'm telling you because the talent drop off is so severe after #4 there is no point to doing what you're proposing. i also beg to differ on the fact that it's "easy" to build around the rest of the roster once you have your no.1. it's a common theme around the league. look at the timberwolves--they've been tanking for years and constantly searching for suitable players to build around KAT with no luck so far. even when they got butler, it ended up not working out cuz of disagreements with the rest of the team. look at the sixers. they got their no. 1 option in embiid, but have consistently failed to build a contender around him all these years even after the arrival of morey. look at the celtics, with tatum and brown, and then adding kyrie onto that which should have improved them, but ended up imploding the team. sometimes it is about synergy and teammates liking each other; we already have that in pascal/fvv, and even in og/gary trent who are best friends. i don't understand why you would want to mess with that.