Trevor Ariza

Rock­ets guard Trevor Ariza will be out for the remain­der of the week, miss­ing games against the Magic, Spurs and Jazz, with a severe left hip pointer.

He under­went an MRI on Mon­day and will be re-evaluated next week.

Guard Kevin Mar­tin will move into the start­ing lineup, coach Rick Adel­man said.

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Larry Hughes

The Sacra­mento Kings today waived guard Larry Hughes.

Hughes was acquired from the New York Knicks as part of a three-team trade on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2010, and did not appear in any con­tests with Sacramento.

Over­all this sea­son Hughes, when play­ing for the New York Knicks before com­ing to Sacra­mento, aver­aged 9.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 26.5 min­utes per game.

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Mikki Moore

NBA vet­eran big man Mikki Moore had surgery in mid-December to fix a right heel spur and he is appar­ently going to be ready to go in mid-March.

So any team that did not get a big man at the trade dead­line will have another opportunity.

The Den­ver Nuggets are expected to make an offer to Moore, who can sign with any­body till the end of the reg­u­lar sea­son and still be eli­gi­ble for the playoffs.

His agent says four to five teams have expressed inter­est in Moore.

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Josh Howard

Wiz­ards Pres­i­dent Ernie Grun­feld announced today that guard/forward Josh Howard has a torn ACL in his left knee and will miss the remain­der of the 2010-11 season.

Howard suf­fered the injury in last night’s game vs. Chicago at the 4:23 mark of the first quarter.

In four games (three starts) for Wash­ing­ton this sea­son, Howard aver­aged 14.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game.

No timetable has been announced for Howard’s recovery.

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Zydrunas Ilgauskas

The Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards are get­ting close to buy­ing out the con­tract of one of the fel­las it just got from the Cleve­land Cav­a­liers: Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

And the belief is that he will be headed back to Cleve­land if the NBA will allow it.

A NBA source is say­ing nobody will get in the way of such a thing hap­pen­ing, though the Lithuan­ian big man will have to wait the cus­tom­ary 30 days to do so.

The league will appar­ently only step in if there is proof of some wheel­ing and deal­ing occurred and the Cavs promised Ilguaskas they would take him back before the deal with the Wiz­ards was ever made.

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Allen Iver­son

Allen Iver­son is going to miss the next three games with the Philadel­phia 76ers due to an undi­ag­nosed ill­ness of his four-year-old daugh­ter, Messiah.

He already missed two weeks ear­lier in the year due to the sick­ness. The Six­ers are call­ing his leave indefinite.

“At this time, we feel that it is in the best inter­est of the Six­ers, Allen and his fam­ily that he be allowed to deal with a very seri­ous issue that is far greater than the game of bas­ket­ball,” Six­ers pres­i­dent and gen­eral man­ager Ed Ste­fan­ski said.

Some are think­ing this could be it for Iver­son and the Six­ers, though. Sources reported yes­ter­day that some in the orga­ni­za­tion are ready to send Iver­son packing.

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Antawn Jami­son

Antawn Jami­son came off the bench in his first two games with the Cav­a­liers, but that is expected to change.

“At the end of the day, he’s prob­a­bly going to be a starter for us, he’s a starter in this league,” coach Mike Brown said. “I’ve just got to fig­ure things out and we’re in the process of doing that right now.”

Jami­son started at power for­ward to begin the sec­ond half of Cleveland’s loss to Orlando on Sun­day. He scored 15 of his 19 points in the third and fourth quarters.

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Deron Williams

After the Jazz traded his good friend Ron­nie Brewer, Deron Williams seemed to hint that his exit from the fran­chise could be sooner rather than later.

Speak­ing with reporters the day after the Jazz sent Brewer to Mem­phis for a pro­tected first-round draft pick, Williams expressed frus­tra­tion with the trade and hinted that he too was ready to leave.

“That’s why I signed a three-year deal.”

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Von Wafer

Von Wafer has played in the NBA for five dif­fer­ent teams after get­ting picked in the sec­ond round of the 2005 draft.

He got signed last sum­mer by Olympiakos, the Greek team that is always try­ing to sign folks away from the NBA. Wafer got tossed by Olympiakos this past Decem­ber and has a hard time find­ing an NBA team that will take his ser­vices — until now.

It appears that the Dal­las Mav­er­icks are going to bring Wafer aboard, accord­ing to sources.

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant has missed the Lak­ers’ last five games with a sprained ankle and he has had enough.

After prac­tic­ing Sat­ur­day, Bryant said he expects to return Tues­day against Mem­phis, the ankle, Bryant says, should be ready.

“It should be. If not, I’m fir­ing everybody.”

Bryant is expected to get treat­ment on the ankle today.

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