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duncan228
03-31-2008, 01:45 PM
Apparantly the Pacers can use him for the stretch run.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/nba/03/31/oneal.ap/index.html

Pacers' O'Neal set to return Monday

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal says he will return to the court Monday night after sitting out more than two months with a bone bruise on his left knee.

O'Neal is among the league's best interior defenders, and the Pacers could use him for the stretch run. They enter Monday's game against the Miami Heat three games behind Atlanta for the eighth and final playoff slot in the Eastern Conference with nine games left.

O'Neal averaged 15 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in 33 games before leaving in the first quarter Jan. 16 against Golden State.
sribb43
03-31-2008, 02:28 PM
Can't wait until the headlines read tomorrow "O'Neal Sidelined by Swollen Knee"
JamStone
03-31-2008, 02:44 PM
Good luck JO on your auditioning for an off-season trade to some team that can somehow match salaries without gutting their roster.
Reggie Miller
03-31-2008, 03:05 PM
Good luck JO on your auditioning for an off-season trade to some team that can somehow match salaries without gutting their roster.

BINGO! Please come down front with the winning card.
PacerFan
03-31-2008, 04:58 PM
No way will a team that is run right want JO with his salary.
SpursFanFirst
03-31-2008, 06:25 PM
There goes any chemistry this team was building.
ugh...I'm so tired of him. He needs to go...PRONTO. :bang
JamStone
03-31-2008, 06:27 PM
No way will a team that is run right want JO with his salary.

Maybe Isiah can convince Donnie Walsh to do it.
PacerFan
03-31-2008, 06:29 PM
That is about the Pacers only hope in dumping him.
ChuckD
03-31-2008, 07:56 PM
No way will a team that is run right want JO with his salary.
Right, but that description covers maybe 10 teams, leaving 20 teams to peddle his bum knee and huge contract to. Someone will bite.
PacerFan
03-31-2008, 10:13 PM
I can only hope so chuck, but I must say I am pretty pessimistic here. The Pacers have a better shot at someone biting on Tinsley IMO.