Gilbert Arenas Out for the Season?

Gilbert Arenas was first said to be targeting December for his return from knee surgery. December got pushed back to January. Now there are rumors that Gilbert Arenas is out for the season. While these rumors have been far from verified by Arenas or anyone with the Wizards, it’d make some sense.

The biggest reason why it’d make sense to keep Arenas out for the rest of the season is because the Washington Wizards are so horrible. The only teams in the NBA who have worse records are the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder. At 5-23, the Wizards are by far the worst team in the Eastern Conference.

Arenas coming back this season makes makes less and less sense as the playoffs become out of the realm of possibilities. If the Wizards are going to miss the playoffs, they might as well be as bad as possible to make sure they get the best chances of having a good draft pick.

At 26, Arenas is young enough to bounce back from this latest knee surgery. Even if he misses the rest of the season, as long as he enters 2009-10 healthy he will be a very intriguing fantasy basketball player. His surgery wasn’t deemed serious and there’s no indication that his career could be in jeopardy.

As for this season, Arenas’ fantasy basketball value is at an all-time new low. Unless you can stash him away on an injured list, there’s really not much reason to have him on your roster.

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