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Wizards' Stackhouse says he's out for the seasonWASHINGTON (AP) Wizards swingman Jerry Stackhouse plans to sit out the remainder of the year to rest his ailing left knee. Stackhouse's latest injury was caused by overcompensating for his injured right knee, which kept him out for most of the season and never fully healed. He talked with Coach Eddie Jordan and his teammates after he scored 20 points in 31 minutes of play in Saturday's 122-110 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, and that they support his decision. ``They see me laboring out on the floor,'' Stackhouse said. ``It takes a toll on my whole body. ... I've got to get back to being Jerry Stackhouse.'' Stackhouse, the Wizards' leading scorer last season, played his first game of the season Feb. 1 against Cleveland, and averaged 10.6 points per game in 11 games before his 20-point effort Saturday. He said after Saturday's game that he rushed his return to the lineup. ``I've got to start thinking with my head instead of my heart,'' he said. Stackhouse's exit means the Wizards are without their leading scorer from last year and this year. Larry Hughes had been averaging nearly 19 points a game before going on the injured list earlier this month with a broken left wrist. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets NBA fines Stackhouse $5,000 for throwing ballNEW YORK (AP) Washington Wizards guard Jerry Stackhouse was fined $5,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for throwing a basketball into the stands during a game. Stackhouse was ejected in the third quarter of Washington's 113-85 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday after he tossed the ball to vent frustration over a foul call. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Brown, Arenas work to move on following verbal exchangeWASHINGTON (AP) With the coach's words fresh in their heads, Kwame Brown and Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards tried to move on Tuesday in their first practice since making critical postgame remarks. Coach Eddie Jordan spoke to both players on Monday's day off, trying to short-circuit any festering bad feelings between power forward Brown _ who accused players of being selfish _ and point guard Arenas _ who said Brown needs to do a better job of scoring when he gets the ball. ``Boys will be boys, and it happens with every team,'' Jordan said. ``I would think things have settled down. And a win will be like soap; it'll clean everything up.'' The Wizards have lost five straight by an average of 22 points heading into Wednesday's game at Toronto. The frustration boiled over when Brown and Arenas spoke freely following Sunday's season-high 28-point home blowout to Milwaukee. Brown didn't mention any player by name, but he said the Wizards weren't sharing the ball in recent games and that ``we have one guy with OK numbers, but he's just shooting.'' Arenas responded by saying Brown ``ain't converting'' the chances he does get. On Tuesday, both players tried to explain themselves. ``I don't think everything's hunky-dory, but we've got to go and perform the right way,'' Brown said. ``They want to spin it like I was talking to Gilbert. But when you look at the quotes I said 'we.' It wasn't blown out of proportion. Everybody should be mad at themselves and each other, but you've still got to work together.'' Brown said he spoke with Arenas at practice. ``He said what he said. I said what I said. And we've still got to play. That happens,'' Brown said. ``Coach talked to myself and Gilbert. It's over.'' Arenas said there was ``nothing to talk about'' between him and Brown and that there were no hard feelings. He expounded on comments he made to The Washington Times in which he said that Brown was perhaps feeling the pressure of a disappointing career start after being chosen No. 1 overall in the 2001 draft. ``Anybody in this league, you get picked in the top 10, you're going to have pressure on you to succeed,'' Arenas said. ``I got paid 64 (million dollars). I have great expectations on me, too.'' Jerry Stackhouse, one of the few voices of experience on the Wizards roster, said the struggles were just more evidence of the team's youth. ``I can sit and try to tell them everything, the experience that I've had,'' Stackhouse said. ``But you don't get it until you get there, and they're not there.'' Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Wizards Feb 2004 Archive
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