Mike Dunleavy Won’t Be Back for a Long While

Try sometime in 2010, according to his coach: “The last thing Indiana Pacers coach Jim O’Brien claims to be is a doctor. One thing O’Brien believes, though, is swingman Mike Dunleavy will be out until at least January as he rehabilitates his injured right knee. ‘Nothing that I’ve heard has Michael coming back anytime before January,’ O’Brien said. ‘It’s not even on my radar, Michael Dunleavy coming back. I have to approach next year like he’s not coming back because you have to build a team.'”