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"Coach Arenas" as Eddie Jordan called him is staying as involved as possible. That is a huge departure from the approach he took following his surgery last November. Arenas was hardly ever around, did not travel and was not the lively lockeroom presence that he normally is.

He is aiming for December but team president Ernie Grunfeld repeatedly stated today that the team has no timetable in mind and he made it clear that Arenas will not take the court again until the knee is "healthy."

That was telling. I've going on my fourth season covering this team and I've learned that while Grunfeld is often guarded in his answers about his team, it is possible to read between the lines of what he does and does not say. I took Wednesday's responses to mean that the team is prepared for Arenas to be out for a good while. Whether Grunfeld has December or January or February or any month in mind is a mystery, but on ESPN, former Bullet beat man Ric Bucher cited a team source saying that Arenas' December target date is optimistic. That makes sense.