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.

"I know what Jerry can do, and what I see is a player who is frustrated," said Grunfeld, who is at the Portsmouth (Va.) Invitational scouting potential second-round picks. "He's not able to do the things that he's done in the past. But our job is to make sure that everything is in place for him so that he can return to that level, which we haveno doubt he will."