Juan Carlos Navarro, shooting guard for Barcelona, is interested in leaving Europe for the NBA. The Wizards control Navarro's NBA rights but his contract with the Spanish club contains a hefty buyout clause.

"It's a door I do not want to close," Navarro said during a news conference yesterday in Barcelona. "I have been thinking about [playing in the NBA] this year, but there are many complications."

According to the police report of Gilbert Arenas' arrest, he said: "You can't arrest me. I'm a basketball player. I play for the Washington Wizards and I'm not going to leave my teammate."

Arenas said he never made such a statement.

"All I did was get out of the car to ask where they were taking Awvee so I could come get him out, and some officer comes up from behind and cuffs me," Arenas said in a phone interview.

"Everyone knows me. They know I don't have a cocky personality. I don't use my name to get in trouble and I don't use my name to get out of trouble. That would never come out of my mouth."

Gilbert Arenas and Awvee Storey, both of the Washington Wizards, have been arrested on charges of disobeying police.

According to police reports, Storey was blocking traffic in the middle of a busy street in Miami Beach when an officer told him to get back to the sidewalk Saturday night. Storey didn't get out of the street, and the officer arrested him and charged him with failure to obey a command.

Arenas got out of a vehicle and walked toward the arresting officers. According to reports, an officer told Arenas to get back in his vehicle, but he refused, saying he wanted to stand next to his teammate. The officer took Arenas into custody and charged him with resisting without violence.

As Arenas was being arrested, according to reports, he said, "You can't arrest me. I'm a basketball player. I play for the Washington Wizards, and I'm not going to leave my teammate."

The Wizards confirmed Wednesday that Eddie Jordan was docked $25,000 by the league for comments he made following a 97-96 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 3.

"The truth is the truth," Jordan said the next day. "I want our players to understand that we did a lot of things to win the game, and because a travel wasn't called, you don't win the game."

Jordan added that Wizards star Gilbert Arenas "doesn't get the calls that LeBron gets."

Commissioner David Stern said on Monday that Washington Coach Eddie Jordan had been fined $25,000 for suggesting that the referees favored Cleveland's LeBron James and that James had traveled at the end of Game 3 in the teams' first-round series.

Stern's disclosure came while speaking about owners and coaches who criticize the officiating and the N.B.A. in general.

Jordan had said, "I'm not going to get fined for saying what's obvious"

The Sacramento Kings have not formally contacted the Washington Wizards to request permission to speak with Coach Eddie Jordan about their open coaching position, according to a Wizards team source.

Jordan has one season left on his contract with the Wizards and is rumored to be heavily recruited by Kings ownership.

"I am under contract and I plan on honoring that contract,"  said Jordan on his current term with the Wizards.

Just one day after Ernie Grunfeld said there is a "no time frame" for extending Eddie Jordan's contract, the Sacramento Bee listed Jordan as a potential candidate to coach the Sacramento Kings in a report.

Jordan was hired by owner Abe Pollin before Grunfeld assumed duties as president of basketball operations.

Jordan was an assistant with the Kings for five seasons before becoming head coach with 15 games remaining in the 1996-97 season.  Adelman was hired during that summer before the start of the 1997-1998 campaign.

The Washington Post is reporting that the Wizards could be interested in acquiring former Maryland star Chris Wilcox.

Seattle General Manager Rick Sund has said re-signing Wilcox will be the team's "number one priority in free agency."

He was acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers for Vladimir Radmanovic.

Ernie Grunfeld has made major moves as general manager of the Wizards during each summer of his tenure, but he is looking to be a little less active this year.

"I'm comfortable with what we have," Grunfeld said Tuesday, "because I think we've shown that we can compete on the highest level with anybody. Having said that, you always look for things to see if you can make your team better. I think we've shown in our three years here that if the right opportunity presents itself, we're not afraid to pull the trigger."

"I believe in continuity," he said. "I believe in consistency, and you can't make wholesale changes every single year and expect to have that good chemistry."

According to the Associated Press, Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas reiterated the sentiment that the Cavaliers got the breaks in the first round series between the two teams because of LeBron James during the teams exit meetings on Monday.

"It was little things that stood out in big times in the games," Arenas said. "You're going to get away with walks and travels and fouls at the beginning of the game, but that last 30 seconds to a minute. ... I said earlier in the series: We have to actually beat them to beat them. If it's a close game, we're not going to win."