They are an all star player and good veteran leader away from the 8th seed.
You need veterans to teach young guys how to win. Even OKC has had vets that have had playoff experience in Joe Smith, Earl Watson, Wally Z, Kurt Thomas, and even Kristic/Thabo who are both on the team and were rotation players on playoff teams.
They have enough young talent in Reke, Cousins, Casp, Green, Thompson, Udrih, and so on to compete right now. If you bring an all star for that pick this coming draft and an old guy who isn't too old to not be able to play but not too young to demand big minutes (Fisher/Kurt Thomas type) that team would be better. It is a joke that they haven't even won 20 games in the calendar year of 2010.
An example of a team doing this would be the Nets, their main reason for going out and signing Farmar and trading for Sasha was to add guys who know how to win to a team that doesn't according to their owner and Avery.