While Washington has Beal back and are surging on a three-game winning streak, health remains an obstacle in an injury-riddled campaign. Beal will be on a strict minutes limit for the time being and said he will likely be held out of one of the Wizards’ games in their upcoming back-to-back set against the Indiana Pacers on Friday and Boston Celtics on Saturday. He scored 11 points on 3-of-8 shooting in 22 minutes Wednesday.

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“I thought he got winded,” Wizards Coach Randy Wittman said. “As much as you think you can do off the coach in terms of conditioning, it’s not what it is when you get on the court. But I though he did fine for missing x-amount of weeks or whatever it ended up being. Coming back in, getting his feet wet, get his legs under him a little bit. You could tell his legs were a little wobbly, but that was expected.”

The Wizards are also closely monitoring minutes for Nene and Drew Gooden III, their top two centers until Marcin Gortat returns from an infection in his left knee.

Gortat missed his second straight game Wednesday because of the infection, which he contracted in the hours after Washington’s win over the Orlando Magic Saturday. He was admitted to a hospital Tuesday and also received treatment there Wednesday. He doesn’t, however, have a staph infection, which the Wizards initially feared.