LAS VEGAS — Well, now.Thomas & Mack Center saw the latest iteration of “Who’s Next” in the NBA on Thursday. For the first time in almost a generation, the Washington Wizards had the guy at the forefront of the debate.AJ Dybantsa’s first night in a Wizards uniform produced electricity that hasn’t been seen in a Washington player or in a Washington game in a good, good long while. And it made the three years of tanking, the last producing enough ping-pong balls following a 17-65 season, for Washington to win May’s lottery and get the No. 1 pick. There was never much doubt whom the Wizards were going to take.Thursday showed everyone why.Dybantsa had 27 points, seven rebounds, two steals and two assists in the Wizards’ 92-88 win over the Utah Jazz. He was dynamic. He was aggressive.“He’s got his own shoe already?” a stunned Paul Pierce, the Hall of Famer, sitting courtside, asked early in the first quarter, seeing Dybantsa in his new Nike rollout, a to-be-named shoe expected to be part of Nike’s GT Model.The Wizards gave the ball to AJ Dybantsa, shown guarded by Cody Williams, frequently as a point forward Thursday. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)Then, to Dybantsa: “I need a size 15, my boy.”Two minutes later, at the other end of the court, Dybantsa drove the paint, lost the ball halfway up — but gathered it back, and in one motion, punched it on Utah’s Justin Harmon. The highlight-reel play produced the kind of roar from the near-sellout crowd that has almost always been reserved for Wizards’ opponents much of the last decade.“That looked like No. 1 to me!” Pierce said. “I’m about to leave. I’ve seen enough.” And The Truth, indeed, headed out a couple of minutes later.If everything around him seemed to swirl and pulsate, Dybantsa was not at all shaken in the eye of the storm.“Everything felt normal,” Dybantsa said afterward. “I think my game kind of is built for the NBA — me getting in transition a lot, me getting downhill a lot, and me being able to make plays for my teammates.”His soon-to-be regular-season teammates came out in force Thursday. Most every Wizard who will be in the regular rotation next season was at Thomas & Mack: Trae Young, Anthony Davis, Alex Sarr, Kyshawn George, Justin Champagnie, Bub Carrington and the newly reacquired Khris Middleton. Most of them sat together courtside, next to coach Brian Keefe, general manager Will Dawkins and the team’s governor, Ted Leonsis.