WASHINGTON (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.

NEW 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.

WASHINGTON (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.''

WASHINGTON (AP) The blowouts are mounting, and the bickering has begun. In their first post-MJ season, the Washington Wizards are making a strong case as the NBA's most embarrassing team.

With Michael Jordan no longer on the court or in the front office, no team has fewer victories (16). No team loses as badly: Washington has dropped a league-high 25 games by 10 points or more.

And the Wizards look bad in other ways, too. Kwame Brown (a No. 1 overall draft pick) and Gilbert Arenas (a high-priced offseason pickup) traded not-so-subtle barbs in the locker room Sunday after a season-worst 28-point loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.

Sunday's shenanigans also included a fine for coach Eddie Jordan _ no relation to Michael _ and an ejection for Jerry Stackhouse as the Wizards lost by 20-plus points for the 10th time this season.

``When you have a group of tough losses like we've had, I think you have sub-factions begin to form,'' forward Jared Jeffries said. ``But I think it's important for everybody to come together.''

The Wizards have lost five straight games, including four by at least 22 points. They can't even make up deficits in fourth-quarter garbage time, when the winning team is letting up.

They have no semblance of team defense: Opponents have sliced through the paint or taken open jumpers to the tune of 50-percent shooting in four of the last five games.

``At one point I just wanted to foul everybody _ just to show everybody that we can foul,'' Arenas said after Sunday's 113-85 pasting by the Bucks. ``We don't have to give up easy baskets.''

Said Eddie Jordan: ``We just didn't compete. At the start of the game, we were up two, and that was really the only sign of life.''

Well, Brown did show some life after the game _ when asked what was wrong.

``To me, it just seems like guys are going out just to get numbers,'' Brown said. ``They're not passing. ... Games that we're getting killed on, we have one guy with OK numbers, but he's just shooting. We don't pass the ball. We don't play like a team. We've just got guys just whining and complaining about offense, and that's not basketball. It makes me sick.''

Told of Brown's words, point guard Arenas was quick to take exception. Arenas, who led the team Sunday in points (21) and shots taken (21), hit back with a blistering critique of Brown's game.

``Everybody's getting the same amount of touches: If you ain't converting, you ain't converting,'' Arenas said. ``Last time I checked, I pass him the ball like six, seven times, he passes to somebody else, right under the basket.''

Actually, the team's offensive chemistry has been hindered since the start of the season, when knee surgery forced Stackhouse to the sideline for months. Arenas also missed a chunk of time with an abdominal injury. Then, just as those two got healthy, leading scorer Larry Hughes broke his wrist.

As a result _ and because the rest of the roster is so young _ first-year coach Jordan had to ditch most of the Princeton-style offense he hoped to install. His plan for set player rotations lasted only a couple of weeks.

Usually, when a team is this bad, the coach will try something _ anything _ to shake up his team. But Jordan has run out of things to change.

``We'll keep working hard and digging down,'' he said. ``We'll teach improved technique, and we'll see how it goes. Maybe the tide will turn.''

The coach also has to put out whatever might be simmering from the Brown-Arenas remarks when practice resumes Tuesday. Brown, 2-for-4 from the field with six points against the Bucks, doesn't plan to bring up the issue.

``It can't come from me. I guess people don't respect me; I'm a third-year guy,'' said Brown, who has yet to live up to the promise of his No. 1 overall selection in the 2001 draft. ``It's got to come from the coach. We've got guys in here, vets, that have got to step up to the plate.''

One of those veterans, Stackhouse, vented his frustration by tossing the ball about 100 feet to protest a foul call in the third quarter against the Bucks. Stackhouse was ejected, and he wasn't available to comment afterward.

Two days earlier, it was Eddie Jordan who got into trouble. His postgame rant at an official following Friday's loss to Indiana was penalized Sunday with a $7,500 fine.

The only upside is that Michael Jordan is no longer with the team, so fewer people care. Sunday's crowd of 14,296 was only a few hundred more than attended the Maryland-Duke women's college game at nearby College Park.

Plus, the fans are used to it. The Wizards haven't been to the playoffs in seven years and haven't won a playoff game in 16 years. At 16-38, they're 7{ games out of the last postseason berth in the Eastern Conference.

Infighting just comes with the territory.

``It is frustrating. When you get frustrated, you start blaming people,'' Arenas said. ``You start blaming everything else. But individually, it's yourself. Everybody should just stop pointing fingers and just pick up themselves.''

NEW YORK (AP) Orlando Magic guard Tracy McGrady and Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan were fined by the NBA on Sunday.

McGrady was fined $10,000 for kicking a basketball into the stands twice at the end of the first half of Orlando's 102-98 victory over Denver on Friday night.

McGrady kicked the ball into the stands, and when it was returned to the court, he kicked it into the stands again. He received two technicals and was ejected.

Jordan was fined $7,500 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner at the end of the Washington's 96-87 loss to Indiana on Friday.

Jordan, upset about a no-call when Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas' fadeaway shot over Jeff Foster was disrupted by contact in the final two minutes, berated official Leon Wood in the middle of the court after the final whistle before security intervened.

WASHINGTON (AP) Wizards scoring leader Larry Hughes has a broken left wrist and will miss four to six weeks.

Hughes was hurt in the second half of last week's game against Memphis, but the injury initially was thought to be a sprain.

Hughes played two days later and scored 21 points in 45 minutes against the Los Angeles Clippers, but he left in the first quarter of Sunday's game at Cleveland.

The broken bone was revealed when Hughes was re-examined Tuesday.

``During the healing period he will be able to run and shoot, and hopefully we will have him back as soon as possible,'' general manager Ernie Grunfeld said.

The 6-foot-5 guard has started 48 of 49 games this season and leads the team with 18.7 points. He is also averaging 5.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists.

His injury came just as the Wizards finally got their full lineup intact. Jerry Stackhouse and Gilbert Arenas returned from long rehabilitations last week, and the Memphis game was the first time this season that Stackhouse, Arenas and Hughes played together.

WASHINGTON (AP) Gilbert Arenas was activated Wednesday by the Washington Wizards, joining Jerry Stackhouse as a badly needed sparkplug in the starting lineup.

Arenas missed 26 games and had three stints on the injured list with a lower abdominal strain. He was first injured Nov. 23 against Seattle and reaggravated the injury twice when he tried to come back too quickly. His last game was Jan. 9 against Orlando.

Stackhouse missed the first 45 games of the season while recovering from knee surgery. He returned Sunday against Cleveland.

To make room for Arenas on the roster, the Wizards released forward Torraye Braggs.

Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas won't return until after the All-Star Game with a possible return date of February 19 at Houston.

"I'm just going to wait until after All-Star, get 100 percent and come back and play," said Arenas, who indicated last week he would be back before the Feb. 15 All-Star Game in his hometown of Los Angeles. "No one is going to be happy if I come back too soon, so I'm just going to make everyone happy and come back after All-Star."

Arenas has missed 26 games this season with a severely strained abdomen.

CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Cavaliers were unable to return home after their victory in Washington on Sunday because of mechanical problems with the team plane.

Cavaliers spokesman Tad Carper in Cleveland said the team was waiting on a replacement part to arrive in Washington.

Instead of practicing at Gund Arena on Monday, the Cavaliers will practice in Washington, then fly to Detroit for a game Tuesday night.

Wizards guard Jerry Stackhouse was activated off of the injured list and saw game action for the first time this season Sunday against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

He was a bit rusty though.

"I hadn't played in three months, so you know I was thinking about my knee," said Stackhouse, who had 13 points on 5-of-14 shooting, grabbed two rebounds but had a team-high four turnovers. "I'm over most of the physical hurt of the surgery, now it's a mental thing of getting back into a rhythm of basketball, being the player I am as opposed to just trying to float and be on the floor. That's not what I want to be. I'm doing that right now."