Josh Howard will not be with the Wizards when they face the Jazz on Monday as he visits a specialist in New York to receive treatment for tendinitis in his left knee.

Howard first had a setback with tendinitis in November and after receiving a pain-relieving cortisone injection, he will have to sit out at least a week before he's evaluated again.

He missed the first 24 games of the regular season recovering from knee surgery to repair a torn left anterior cruciate ligament.

"Nothing to discover, just going to get a shot I've been talking about for a month or two now. I hope I can get some good results with it," said Howard, who has played in just eight games this season.

"Nothing different, nothing out of the ordinary. Just another way to handle my tendon problem, my tendinitis. It's a really bad case."