“on whether or not he should come back. "I mean, seven wins? Would you?” He asked me. He went on to say, “Right now, I’m not even close. It’s a matter of recovery. It’s taking a good two or three days to recover depending on how hard I go when playing 2-on-2. So, I’m not even sure. What am I gonna do, play a game here, play five minutes a game there?”"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/outlet/2009/Jan/09/post-game-rap/

I think the teams record is irrelevant to whether or not Arenas returns. Nobody is expecting him to play 40 mpg night after night. The whole point of his coming back is first, to give the team a chance to reorient itself to an Arenas-run offense so that we don’t lose the first couple of months of the 09/10 season making the adjustment. Secondly, we need to know what Arenas has left, if he can still be an all-NBA PG so that we can make appropriate trades and acquisitions in building our 09/10 roster.