Wednesday’s question of the day: Which off-season NBA move will pay the biggest dividend this season?

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Reporters from the Tribune family tackle the question of the day, then you get a chance to chime in and tell them why they are wrong.

Mark Heisler, Los Angeles Times

Prizes come in unlikely packages, and none unlikelier than Mt. St. Sheed.
At 35, Rasheed Wallace is still ticking, but he’s also still an all-purpose, 6-11 guy who can make outside shots like Robert Horry, and play the post, almost like Tim Duncan. (Well, when he feels like it.)
Even looking as if he had retired without announcing it last spring with the sagging Pistons, Sheed loomed as the answer to more teams than the sawed-off Celtics, who were dying for length with only Kevin Garnett over 6-9.
No one else even get a shot. GM Danny Ainge, Coach Doc Rivers, Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and owner Wyc Grousbeck flew to Detroit, and overwhelmed Wallace, who called off trips to San Antonio and Orlando.
Imagine a giant Cavalier front line with Wallace watching Shaquille O’Neal’s back, which needs watching, or in tandem with Dwight Howard or Duncan.
Instead, he’s a Celtic, which is why they’re still favored to win the East over the improved Cavaliers, who won 66 last season.

Ira Winderman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

With the free-agent additions of Rasheed Wallace and Marquis Daniels in Boston, Doc Rivers not only can afford to pace his Big 3 of Garnett, Pierce and Allen through the regular season, but also can enter the postseason far less concerned about potential foul trouble for Kendrick Perkins. As a bonus, Wallace and Daniels arrive with NBA Finals experience. Depth, as much star power, appears to be the universal upgrade in the East, with Cleveland possibly to reap more from the length of Jamario Moon and Anthony Parker than the bulk of Shaq, and with Orlando to perhaps benefit as much from the versatility of Matt Barnes, Brandon Bass and Jason Williams as the flair of Vince Carter.

Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel
Eight all-star nods. An Olympic gold medal. Vince Carter’s résumé shines except for one glaring deficiency: He doesn’t have an NBA title. Heck, he’s never even reached the third round of the conference playoffs. That’s why Carter will fit in on Orlando’s star-studded team: The Magic give him his best chance to win a title. “I don’t think you need it to become a Hall of Famer, but I want it,” Carter has said. He gives the Magic the go-to guy the team so desperately lacked last season. Coach Stan Van Gundy would rather have Carter handling the ball in a game’s waning moments than Dwight Howard, who struggles at the free-throw line. Even at 32, Carter still can create his own shot, and he’s an underrated passer. So much has been made of Hedo Turkoglu’s departure, but Carter out-scored Turkoglu last season and had a better shooting percentage than Turkoglu.

K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune

Some might find it difficult to digest that the ever-combustible Rasheed Wallace is the most stable of the NBA offseason moves. But Wallace remains one of the best help defenders in the league. And if he resorts to jacking up ill-advised three-pointers, he’ll have Kevin Garnett---or Doc Rivers, or Paul Pierce---in his face. Garnett doesn’t do silly or immature. And with Garnett and Wallace prowling the paint, Boston’s already stout defense just got that much better. Shaq’s move to Cleveland grabbed most all the headlines. Vinsanity in Orlando sounds like a Disney movie. But for rough-and-tumble defense and veteran know-how, Wallace to the Celtics is the best offseason move from this view.