So far, Vince Carter has been leaps and bounds better than Antawn Jamison.

Our One On One feature this week will deal with a pair of certain Hall of Famers in Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley, and, not surprisingly, that's one of the games we discuss. Also, remember the 1998 draft? We did, and two of the top five players from that draft are discussed as well. And, as always, click here to register your comments via e-mail.

Charles Barkley Rockets Has too much pride to see his team lose every night like this.	S. Marbury Nets Has too much talent to let his team lose every night like this.	Mitch Richmond Wizards This is the week he starts to play better. We think.	Brian Grant Blazers Can he show up every night, or is he still hurt?	Larry Hughes 76ers Here's your shot, kid.

Friday: Houston at Portland, 8 p.m. ET
Um, remember some trade that these teams made before the season? Didn't really make headlines, but we'd like to bring it up again anyway.

WHO CARES?

Saturday: Chicago at Dallas, 8 p.m. ET -- Elton Brand vs. Dirk Nowitzki. Randy Brown and Robert Pack. Will Perdue starts against Sean Rooks. We can't control out emotions in anticipation for this one. In fairness, the Mavs do score a lot of points and they have some pretty good players, namely Michael Finley, Cedric Ceballos and an emerging guy in Erick Strickland. Plus, Nowitzki is holding his own. The Bulls? They have Brand and fellow rook Ron Artest. And they seem to be trying very hard. People are starting to talk about the Bulls challenging the 1972-73 Sixers' record for futility. It's a little early for that. Talk to us in March.

Talk about a change of fortunes for two teams. We don't really think the Rockets are 2-10 because Scottie Pippen is no longer on the team. We don't blame Steve Francis either. In fact, we're not sure why this team leads the NBA in losses. We are sure that Sir Charles Barkley will have the troops ready for this one. (By the way, we'd be remiss if we didn't add this fact on the teams the Rockets have fallen to: Only two have losing records.)

Pippen's enjoying his stay in Portland, as his team has lost only once and people are already talking about this team challenging for the Bulls' record for wins in a season. It's a cliche, but you can probably forget about the records in this one. Barkley may not win this one, but don't expect him to get blown out.

Also on Friday night, Vince Carter visits Utah and Jamie Feick challenges Shaq. Good luck, Jamie.

Saturday: Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. ET
Toronto picked fourth and Golden State went fifth. Both players came from the respected program at North Carolina and frankly, at the time of the trade, who knew it would work out like this. Even Toronto couldn't have imagined.

We're discussing, of course, the trade of Antawn Jamison for Vince Carter. With the Tar Heels, Jamison was the college player of the year and expected to be a stud. Carter was a nice player, a high-riser, but not a stud. And don't blame the Warriors for a horrible trade. If Jamison never makes it real big, it's a bad draft pick, not really a trade. They wanted Jamison all along. They actually gave the Raptors Carter and the cash for Jamison.

Currently, Carter is among the league leaders in scoring at more than 23 points a game and makes every highlight reel from here to Tokyo. He was an easy choice as the NBA rookie of the year last season and his team is among the best in the Eastern Conference.

Jamison averaged less than 10 points a game last year on a bad team. P.J. was itching to play him more but couldn't because the rookie wasn't getting it done. This year Jamison, clearly the team's best player, is averaging 16.6 points and 7.4 rebounds and is showing signs of being a really nice player. But he's no Carter. And his team is Bad with a capital B. Either way, Jamison wasn't really a bad draft pick.

Anyway, to make a long story short, these guys didn't get to meet in a game as rookies thanks to the shortened season and they get it on for the first time tonight. In our Power Rankings, the Raptors are No. 6 and the Warriors are No. 27.