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Agent O-No!

Jimmie | November 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

The Wizards can’t catch a break this season. They’ve managed to fight back after losing the first five games of the year by winning the next five. They won the last two with conviction without Gilbert Arenas, who was sitting out to rest his rehabbed knee.

Now they’ll have to win without him for the next three months.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Washington Wizards leading scorer Gilbert Arenas underwent two different surgical procedures on his left knee on Wednesday and will miss about three months.

Arenas had been experiencing swelling and soreness in the knee which he had surgically repaired late last season. After sitting out the past two games, Arenas did not travel with the team to Charlotte and underwent an MRI Wednesday morning, which revealed a cartilage tear.

I’m trying very hard to curse less but when I read this, the word that escaped my lips was ^%$@&*%^#@$%&^$%#$!!”. Yes, that’s right. I can speak in number-row shift symbols.

Anyway, I suppose now we’ll get the answers to a couple early-season questions. For instance, we’ll find out if Brendan Haywood is for real or if his frenzy of double-doubles has only been a passing fancy. We’ll see if Nick Young can step up and be the bench igniter the team’s going to need. We’ll see if last night’s Andre Blatch was a fluke or a sign of a mature player coming into his abilities. We’ll see if Darius Songaila is better than the third-best player off the bench.

Sheesh.

UPDATE: Had to do a bit of editing because I put an HTML thingie in the wrong place and it ate a couple sentences. That and I tightened the language up a bit. Man, it’s nice to be able to edit on the fly!