Hibachi is down!

WASHINGTON -- To put the Hibachi in storage. Gilbert Arenas essentially are made for the seasons. The magicians of Washington indicate to protector had surgery Thursday for left injury of the knee that lateral line he by two to three months. The most optimistic panorama even has becoming only if its equipment handles to make the end of NBA without him. “It's pretty much down,” said DeShawn Stevenson, determining the humor of the quarter of the closet after the Thursday practice. “But at the same time, we are playoff team. We have to worry about the playoffs and winning games.” Arenas were diagnosed with rasgón lateral of the menisco and had surgery arthroscopic in the commemorative hospital of Sibley in Washington. They at night damaged in the first trimester of loss of 108-100 of Wednesday the Charlotte Bobcats. Arenas, that made an average of 28,4 points and six assists this season, always raised with a new slogan. The best ones were their nickname - Agent zero - and “Hibachi” which he would shout when throwing to his bridge. “It is an unfortunate incident,” coach Eddie Jordan said this. “As coaches in the NBA, you have to be prepared for what one of my old coaches use to call 'thunderbolts.' And I think we are prepared."

Thunderbolts, in fact. The Wizards are lost both of their All-Star to injuries in less than one week. Caron Butler broke a bone in his hand in the loss of Sunday to the Bucks and is in favor towards outside of six weeks. Consequently, the magicians are encountering at the end of which it was a very promising season only two months ago. They lost the games leaned mutually Tuesday and Wednesday to lottery-limits Bobcats and has fallen behind the Heats in the race for the suroriental title of the division.

That team had a chance to contend, and to lose their most crucial guy at the most pivotal time ... it really destroys the whole season, everything they did," Heat coach Pat Riley said before his team's game at Cleveland

The Wizards began the station with confidence, declaring the end of the east of the conference as their goal. When he was the butler down, still they hoped to meet around sands - even though they are 2-9 this station in which the butler does not play.

"It's very difficult, to lead a conference and be the best team, and then all of a sudden injuries kind of plague the team," captain Antawn Jamison said. "But it's basketball. It's not the first time this has ever happened. It's just difficult for us because we were on the brink of doing something special as far as contending for the best record and really making some noise. Not to say that is too far-fetched now, but the identity of the team is totally different."

With Arenas goings, Antonio Daniels will work to equipment like a true protector of the point, and Jamison, Stevenson, Etan Thomas, Jarvis Hayes, Darius Songaila and others will have to find ways to compensate the 47,5 combined points facts an average by Sands and the butler - both who also played almost 40 minutes by game.

The bottom line is you can't reinvent the wheel in April," Jordan said. "You stay with your system, but you shift the gears. You shift the focus to what your strength is now. Not Gil, not Caron, but now to Antawn and to Etan."

Arenas had doubled to this season “the takeover,” and during some time it was as good as his word. It fell 60 in the Los Angeles Lakers, 54 in Phoenix and was named player Eastern Conference of the month for December. He leads NBA with 35 games of 30 points. The combined success of sands and the magicians, along with its ostentosa understanding of the one same-commercialization, drove it in another level of stardom. He matched of Everything-Star by the third consecutive year, but this one was the first time that the ventilators voted it like starter.

Arenas began each game for the magicians until the night of Wednesday, when it was benched in the incline-dull opening to be slow for shootaround at the beginning of the day. The sands entered behind schedule the first trimester and were damaged less than two minutes advanced more, when Gerald Wallace of Charlotte inadvertently crashed in sands after layup reverso unbalanced.

Arenas doubled the incorrect way, like the one of a strategist who has been struck low by a installer of lines who undertook. “Once it discovered the injury severity, class of shellshocked a little,” Jamison this. “He is hard due to the type of year that it had, and the second phases came on us and all we know Gilbert - it loves the second phases and the light of calcium and the things like that.” It is first significant injury for sands since an abdominal tension sidelined for 27 games during station 2003-04. Only two games each one of the two last stations needed he.

Arenas finish the regular station with 2,105 points, feeling well to the first player of the license from Walt Bellamy to write down more than 2,000 points in three consecutive stations. “For our players now, this could a little while be shining,” Jordan this. “He is a little while shining for the cars also. When your two better players are down, you are training to equipment now that he has to move advanced.”