Gilbert Arenas had surgery for a left knee injury and
Posted on April 6, 2007
Filed Under Basketball, Sports News
Gilbert Arenas has finished it for the season. On Thursday the point guard of the Washington Wizards’ basketball team had surgery for a left knee injury that will keep him away from playing for two or three months. His soonest return to the game is if his team makes it to the NBA finals without him.
“It’s pretty much down,” said DeShawn Stevenson, While going to the locker room after Thursday’s practice. “But at the same time, we are a playoff team. We have to worry about the playoffs and winning games.”
Arenas was injured in the first quarter with the Charlotte Bobcats, a game that they lost on Wednesday night’s with 108-100. He was diagnosed with a lateral meniscus tear and experienced an arthroscopic surgery at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington.
Arenas averaged 28.4 points and six assists this season. His nicknames were “Agent Zero” or “Hibachi!, nicknames that he would yell when shooting his jumper.
It’s an unfortunate incident. 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.”
In only a week the Wizards lost both their All-Stars players. In the loss with Milwaukee Bucks, Caron Butler broke a bone in his hand, on Sunday. In consequence of losing those two players the Wizards have fallen behind the Miami Heat in the race for the Southeast Division title. Nearly two months ago the Wizards had a very promising start in the season.
“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 the game with Cleveland started.
