Wizards will likely keep Stack

Wizards are likely to keep Stackhouse

Recent conversations with Wizards front-office people has revealed that the decision makers haven't lost patience with two-time All-Star Jerry Stackhouse, who missed 51 games this season because of injury and now comes off the bench when his knees aren't wracked with pain.
After a Wizards game, radio's would-be coaching intelligentsia offer plans for the future. Many are advising the Wizards to move Stackhouse, who has three years remaining on his contract.
Ultimately, president of basketball operations Ernie Grunfeld and coach Eddie Jordan will huddle, reach a conclusion and then act on any number of situations that lottery teams are saddled with. But right now, a look inside the spin doesn't indicate that trading Stackhouse is the order of the day, or, for that matter, the summer.

Even if they wanted to trade the 29-year-old Stackhouse, the list of potential suitors would be short because the opinion around the league — rightly or wrongly — is that he is damaged goods. Whether he is can only be determined in season.

This news does not make me happy at all, I want Stack to go, I like the Wizards and he's not impressing me. Me and a lot of other Washingto fans want the guy to go, but no one else really wants him anyways.

Arenas, Hughes, and Stackhouse looked good on paper. It was just that Stack's legs gave up on him.

Chris McCosky's quick hits

* The Wizards apparently considered leaving former Piston Jerry Stackhouse unprotected and available to the Charlotte franchise in the June expansion draft, but seemingly have reconsidered. It is highly doubtful the Bobcats would take Stackhouse and his three-year, $25 million contract, unless they planned to trade him. Christian Laettner, another former Piston, and Juan Dixon certainly will be left unprotected. Stackhouse, as we mentioned here last week, is not a happy camper.

There goes Washington's chance of getting rid of Stack easily and freeing up some cap space in the process. It still might be worth leaving him unprotected on the off chance the Bobcats will take him.

I'm surprised that the franchise wants to leave Juan Dixon unprotected. His game is similar to Allen Iverson's but not as smooth. I'd rather have Jared Jeffries go to the Bobcats.

Wizards Are Young, but Nothing's New

Didn't he intimate that Stackhouse was not a leader, that Kwame Brown lacked competitive fire, that Washington's post players are too limited offensively, that young knuckleheads are young knuckleheads, not kids who need syrupy confidence boosts? Jordan said all that.

It's too late to prove Jordan wrong for some. Stackhouse is most likely bound for some offseason deal for a veteran big man, if he is not taken by the Charlotte Bobcats in the expansion draft first. Christian Laettner's days of influencing impressionable minds in the Wizards' locker room are about to come to an end, too. The club may buy out his contract.

Etan Thomas, puffing out his pectorals and just a week past 26, was dunking with malice, bringing his knees up, using his rump to seal off old man Dikembe Mutombo. The two were going at each other with elbows, forearms and profanities. Their little generation-gap spat turned a quiet, summer-league run into jolting NBA theater.

But then, with the Knicks ahead by only two, Mutombo grabbed a rebound off a missed three-pointer with about eight seconds left. Thomas, within a foot of Mutombo, inexplicably did not foul one of the most atrocious free throw shooters in the league. This was still a winnable game if Mutombo misses one or both. Instead, Moochie Norris seals the game with two free throws.

Mutombo isn't that bad a free throw shooter.

Maybe Arenas and Hughes trust their teammates more and chuck from 25 feet less. Maybe Brown and Arenas put their sandbox feud aside and realize, at 22, what they can do together instead of apart. Maybe Eddie Jordan is much more than just the seventh Wizards coach in five years.

Well, I expect Stack to play like he was during the 00-01 season where he was second in the league in scoring. I think Stack just plays better when he has a good team in my opinion.

He's injury-prone. Knees don't usually heal as fast as other parts of the body, depending on the severity, just look at Grant Hill. Stackhouse is never going to be able to get his jump back to where it was.

It's Grant Hill's ankle...but you're right about knees.

I meant to say Mashburn.. lol

He never really got bad to his old form.

same with Vince, they all got bum knees.....don't they all have a similar body??? Big SG's? well Mash is SF

anyways, Washington need a good post guy. Who is Kwame gonna learn off?

they still have a good future team, they'll have a good pick. I think they should take a seasoned 3,4yr dude rather than some younger dude. Look at Marquis Daniels, Battier, E Brand. Although it may not be likely to find guys of that quality with their pick, those college dudes all contributed immediately

Well, I expect Stack to play like he was during the 00-01 season where he was second in the league in scoring. I think Stack just plays better when he has a good team in my opinion.

Yea, he averaged 29.8 points but still couldn't shoot, look how Detroit changed when Rip came. He shot 40.2% by the way, and grabbed 3.9 rebounds in 40.2 minutes. Detroit was also a horrible rebounding team then, Ben got boards but the rest of the team and especially Uncle Cliff and Stack didn't. Oh wait, he also averaged 4 turnovers per game, the guy is just a cancer to Washington and needs to go.

Go to a championship team that is already really good and his many liabilities won't hurt them. The best things for him would be to become a 6th man, kinda like Ricky has, he can hog, play bad defense, shoot bad, and turnover the ball all he wants off the bench.

If he stays in Washington next year I hope he becomes the sixth man, maybe we can swing a Stack for Rashard Lewis deal. As some might not know Rashard is on the block, or might be, the Sonics feel he has peaked at his development, and Vlad might be the better option at becoming a 3 rather than them trying to force him to play the 4. He's more aggressive, and they think he has more potential to be and All-Star than Rashard, but would I accept that trade (with some other guys of course because of contracts), no, not at all.

same with Vince, they all got bum knees.....don't they all have a similar body??? Big SG's? well Mash is SF

anyways, Washington need a good post guy. Who is Kwame gonna learn off?

they still have a good future team, they'll have a good pick. I think they should take a seasoned 3,4yr dude rather than some younger dude. Look at Marquis Daniels, Battier, E Brand. Although it may not be likely to find guys of that quality with their pick, those college dudes all contributed immediately

Vince is playing, that's the difference, he missed 9 games this season, Stack missed 55, and Mash just kept missing games and is out for the playoffs.
Kwame is our post guy, you should worry less about that and worry more about how we can get your man Stack out of Washington, he can go cancer up some other team

if you say so.....he can cancer up the Pacers

Yes Al Harrington and Bender come on over