Gilbert Arenas-Sixth Man is dead. Gilbert Arenas-Starter is back, at least for now.

Roughly 30 minutes ago, Wizards coach Eddie Jordan announced his starting lineup as Antonio Daniels, DeShawn Stevenson, Brendan Haywood, Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison and saying that for now Arenas was still a backup. He added that if the decision changed, it would be "an 11th-hour decision."

I guess the 11th hour is here.

The Wizards and Cavs just released the starting lineup for tonight's game and for the first time since Nov. 16, Agent Zero was on the list. After 69 games on the shelf and seven games as a backup, Arenas will start.

The move must be a stab at helping the Wizards get off to a better start, and possibly hopefully to create a better rhythm than what Washington has played with in the last two games.

Arenas has averaged 15.5 points in the first two playoff games. In his five regular season games before the postseason began, Arenas averaged 14.6 points in 21.6 minutes.

Whether or not the move to start Arenas means that he is no longer being limited in the minutes department remains to be seen. Jordan said yesterday that Gilbert was "far" from being healthy. But maybe a less-than-100 percent Gilbert is better than Antonio Daniels, who is seriously limited playing with a torn ligament in his left wrist.

-- Mike Jones