<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Jermaine O'Neal was forced to miss Wednesday night's game at New Orleans with swelling in his left knee, and there's no definitive return date for the Indiana Pacers forward.</p> Pacers coach Jim O'Brien said the team plans to sit O'Neal until an answer is found for the constant swelling.</p> "It doesn't help him or help us to have him on the court at 60 percent," O'Brien said. "We have to get him corrected and we'll do whatever we have to do to get that done."</p> O'Neal said he will undergo an MRI on his knee Friday.</p> "The biggest concern is why my knee is swelling at the rate it's swelling at," he said. "When you have fluid in your leg, it eliminates all strength in it."</p> O'Neal had surgery shortly after last season. He missed most of this preseason after injuring the same knee when he collided with teammate Shawne Williams in practice and hyperextended it after slipping on a wet spot in a preseason game.</p> O'Neal is averaging 13.2 points and shooting a career-worst 39 percent.</p> The six-time All-Star recently talked to Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas about how to deal with knee problems. Arenas will miss about three months after undergoing surgery.</div></p> http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...0542/-1/LOCAL17</p> Wow that JO no trade is starting to look really good for us now. Especially since Bynum is outplaying JO, and as horrible of a season LO has been having, he really hasn't been THAT much worse than JO. And to think Larry Bird wanted both Bynum AND Odom.....</p>
LOL i think i have the same injry as him... every time i warm up before a game or try and jump my left knee hurts like hell.. but i play through it and dont feel the pain during the game... but after, it starts to swell up real bad and i have to ice it for it to relax or what not... then whenever i pick up a ball it swells again over and over... i cant see why JO cant play through what i have (if it is a similar problem to his)</p>
