General manager Otis Smith, whose resignation was accepted on the same day [Stan] Van Gundy was axed, was so lousy at his job as to be almost avant-garde—watching Smith construct a roster around [Dwight] Howard was the equivalent of being at a fantasy draft with someone who carefully consults his notes, strokes his chin, and then drafts Senator Barbara Boxer or a specific YouTube video of a Welsh Corgi with his first pick.