Jamison

A team spokesman said doctors did not find any major damage in Jamison's knee but that he would miss the remainder of the season.

Jamison, a 6-foot-9, 223-pound forward in his second season, will be on crutches for the next few days before beginning a rehabilitation program.

"I don't want to speculate. Let's see how the therapy goes," coach Garry St. Jean said. "The key is that everything went well and he'll be ready for the summer program as well as next year."

Jamison, 23, had missed Golden State's last four games due to soreness in the knee. He is averaging a team-best 19.6 points and 8.4 rebounds in 43 games with the Warriors this season. He was selected fourth by Toronto in 1999 and then traded to Golden State for Vince Carter, the fifth pick and his former college teammate at North Carolina.

Jamison said before Golden State's 112-103 win over Washington on Sunday that he could be sidelined for just two weeks, but admitted it also was possible that he may miss the rest of the season.

The Warriors had been eager to see how Jamison and newly acquired guard Larry Hughes work together.

But nobody in the organization wants to rush Jamison back just to see him play the last week or so this season for a team not going to the playoffs.

Jamison, the fourth overall pick in the 1998 draft out of North Carolina, doesn't need to prove anything to anybody this season, anyway, St. Jean said.

"I think Antawn established himself this year," St. Jean said. "He created an identity for himself. ... And I think he sees now what he's capable of doing."