Rashard Lewis is considering surgery to alleviate nagging tendonitis issues in his right knee, but for now he isn't ready to bail out on the Wizards.

"Surgery is an option, just to clean it out, a scope, but it's not something that I want to do right now," Lewis said. "I think it'd be an option after the season, but we're going to see how it feels over these next couple of games leading up to the break, just to decide what we're going to do."

Lewis said the knee has been giving him problems on and off for the last couple of seasons, but that it's ramped up this year.

"He's been playing a lot of minutes," Wizards coach Flip Saunders said. "He went from playing the four, where basically he's going to be around the basket a lot, to guarding a lot of threes, chasing, moving a lot more offensively from one side to another. He's got a lot more wear and tear with how we've been using him recently."