Alonzo Gee

Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced Sunday that the team has signed guard/forward Alonzo Gee to a ten-day contract.

Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.

Gee averaged 21.0 points and 6.6 rebounds per game in 36 games for the NBA D-League’s Austin Toros.

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Jerry Stackhouse

Jerry Stackhouse spent a few seasons in Washington earlier in his career and faced off against the Wizards while with the Bucks earlier this week.

Stackhouse touched on the trouble Gilbert Arenas has gotten himself into, but he raised some eyebrows when he suggested the Wizards might be cursed with the injury bug.

“It’s like, I don’t want to say it’s a curse, but tough things happen to people when they go to that city, as far as injuries,” he told the Washington Post.

Josh Howard, acquired from the Mavericks in the Caron Butler trade last month, tore his ACL after only four games with the team.

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Mike James

Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced today that the team has waived Mike James after coming to a mutual agreement on a contract buyout.

James appeared in four games for the Wizards this season, averaging 4.5 points and 1.3 assists.

Overall, he averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 assists in 57 games with the Wizards after being acquired from New Orleans in a three-team deal.

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Brendan Haywood

The trade that put the Mavericks in contention may be even better than expected.

Those who said that center Brendan Haywood, not former All-Star guard Caron Butler, was really the key to the deal — owner Mark Cuban was first but not alone in this chorus — were dead on.

And that is what makes the Mavericks’ current five-game winning streak more significant than any they have had in years.

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Zydrunas Ilgauskas

The Wizards and center Zydrunas Ilgauskas completed a buyout agreement on Thursday and the Hawks wasted no time making a pitch to sign the soon-to-be free agent.

“Once he clears waivers and becomes a free agent [on Monday], hopefully he will consider us,” Hawks general manager Rick Sund said. “We talked to his agent [Herb Rudoy]. He knows we are interested, as are a couple other teams.”

Ilgauskas has long been expected to re-sign with the Cavaliers, who traded him to the Wizards last week.

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Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Zydrunas Ilgauskas and the Washington Wizards agreed to a buyout Wednesday evening, according to a league source. The buyout will save the Wizards just over $1M.

Ilgauskas is expected to sign with the Cavaliers 30 days after the date he was traded, but he will also receive offers from Atlanta, Denver and Dallas.

Reports claim that he will especially listen to offers from the Nuggets and Mavericks.

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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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Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Zydrunas Ilgauskas could officially reach a buyout agreement with the Wizards within the next couple of days, the center’s agent said.

Agent Herb Rudoy said he is “hopeful” that a buyout would be completed by “Monday or Tuesday,” after having discussions with Washington general manager Ernie Grunfeld over the weekend.

The Los Angeles Times reported the NBA has told teams the center will not be allowed to return to the Cavaliers, based on evidence there was a prearranged deal. Players have to wait 30 days before re-signing with the team that just traded them.

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Josh Howard and Mark Cuban

Josh Howard may want to “stick it” to the Mavericks when he plays his former team, but sources say his departure was brought on by his own partying.

The Mavericks took the high road, with owner Mark Cuban saying only, “I wish Josh nothing but the best.”

The juicy piece of irony is that Howard ended up in Washington, which may well have been the site where he had met the beginning of the end, according to several Maverick sources.

They say Howard had a long night of partying on Jan. 19, the night after the Mavericks had won in Boston and less than 24 hours before playing the Wizards.

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