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<span style="font-style: italic">Nov 7</span> - Yesterday at Verizon Center, the team's leading scorer sat out his second straight practice and again did not address reporters wanting to know whether his surgically repaired knee is causing him problems.</p>

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Washington coach Eddie Jordan provided the closest thing to an answer.</p>

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"I have always said that he's not the real Gil," he said. -- <font color="#000000">Washington Times</font></p>

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[*]For now, Gilbert Arenas is an inefficient scorer, no threat from the 3-point line, and the corrosive effect on the Wizards is obvious. They might as well be dragging a ball and chain around the floor.

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The notion that the season is barely under way provides a measure of levity.</p>

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Yet that notion is only as strong as the troublesome knee attached to Arenas. -- <font color="#000000">Washington Times</font></p>

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[*]According to Jordan, the Wizards expected Arenas to experience some discomfort as he got used to playing at full speed following a summer of rehabilitation work.

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"I think it's just normal recovery, rehab sort of thing," Jordan said. "His timetable was almost to the letter of what it was supposed to be from the time when he injured it to surgery to rehab to when he was hitting the floor again in August and September. Things have gone according to schedule, and these kinds of things come up along the way. We're trying to find the correct measures to allow him to be healthy and feel as well as possible so he can play at a high level." -- <font color="#000000">Washington Post</font></p></div>
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