"Enes Kanter has worked out for Cleveland, Minnesota, Utah and Toronto. He made a second trip to Cleveland to meet with owner Dan Gilbert on Monday, and he is projected to go as high as second -- if the Timberwolves aren't just bluffing about taking him over Derrick Williams -- in the NBA draft.

The chances of the Wizards getting Kanter were essentially lost the moment they dropped two spots to sixth in the draft lottery, but that has not removed the soft spot that he continues to hold for a city that he didn't even visit during the pre-draft process.

Kanter wants Washington, but the Wizards can't have him unless he makes a surprising fall, since it doesn't appear that the team is interested in moving up to get him. "I would love to go to D.C. It's an international city," Kanter said. President "Obama loves basketball. And I would love to play with John Wall. I think they are a great team."

Kanter said he really enjoyed his workout with the Wizards last Friday in Chicago, where the team put him through a series of drills and let him use his low post moves on Wizards assistant Don Zierden. "It was so funny, he tried to post me up, but I didn't hurt him," Kanter said with a laugh. "It was really good. It was one of my best practices. I shoot the ball really good. I just tried to show my ability. I tried to go hard and play hard."

The 6-foot-11, 260-pound Kanter would bring a nice, interior presence for the Wizards and provide some frontcourt balance for a team that relies on mostly finesse bigs in JaVale McGee and Andray Blatche. Kanter is willing to do some of the things the Wizards' current bigs won't or can't do and it doesn't hurt that he has a previous relationship with Wall. "