He got dropped in my league last week, the person used there # 1 waiver priority on him, now that he's out "indefinatly" he was dropped again..... anyone have ANY idea how long it's going to be til he comes back? and what personally are you guys doing with him?

Im in a 8 man league where there are alotta good FAs still on WWs. I drafted him and dropped him a week ago when the news came out that he was out "indfinite." Someone dropped Deng, and I picked him up instead. How deep is your league and can u afford to stash him?

Its 18 man, 10 team, h2h, daily roster moves.... But HIGHLY competitive, and the same amount of $$ for first in the regular season, as there is for winning the league.... Doubt I'll use my waiver priority on him (#4) but if he's out on the free agents I might take a flier for a week or so until I hear some news...

Wow, 18 teams is a lot of teams! Tuff call, but I like your assessment of taking a flier on him. He's still on WW in my league bc every game counts. GL

he said 10 teams

Jesus, he should not be on any waiver wires. The person with the #1 priority should claim him.

The guy was like #25 overall last year! Even if he misses a month, he's still going to easily justify the roster spot.

Yeah I can't see Dunleavy being a WW pick-up in any 8 or more team leagues. It stinks to have to sit back and wait this early in the year, but once he's cleared there's nothing blocking him from 35 minute a game nights. I'd aim to buy low on him at this point.

I'm always amazed how impatient fantasy owners are.

He should be held or picked up, period. Ginobli and Ellis are missing half the season, but they are universally owned.

Hanging on to him. There's no point in dropping him for the flavor of the week.

It's a little tough to have him on your team when no new news regarding his injury has surfaced yet. I dunno if the injury is serious or if Dunleavy is just being soft, but the fact of the matter is, no news regarding his injury has surfaced and owners are now thinking the worst. At least with Manu there's a time table set for his return.

Arenas, Ellis, Manu, and Dunleavy are all in the waiver for my league. I"m debating whether I should drop Warrick for Manu or Dunleavy. I'm more inclined to get Manu because he has a returning date, and because Manu one tough fella.

im really tempted to drop him seeing as how my league only has 4 bench spots and i've also got tony parker, but i've waited a few weeks, i can wait a few more.

it seems like Dunleavy's knee is not good at all. i have a strong feeling that he'll undergo the knife.
but that's just my speculation.

besides, Marquis Daniels is filling in just fine for him.

I used my #1 waiver priorty and grabbed him last week. Between him, Redd and Iverson on my bench most of last week, I got smoked. I'm just being patient for now hoping for the best.

That's the one thing that stops me from sending a buy-low offer to his beleaguered owner. There has been absolutely no positive news on him.

Dunleavy has been reasonably healthy in his career, but this may be the year he stays hurt. Who knows.

That the exact time another owner might be willing to panic. Once there is some positive news his values goes up.

If a owner knew he was returning in 2 weeks, vs now when we not sure when he will return. Which do you think would be cheaper to get?

don't worry dunleavy owners, i just picked up marquis daniels a few nights ago, so im sure he'll be back in a week or so.

Lol, I have him sitting there on the WW. I want to pick him up and drop Daniels but Daniels is hot right now and I can't afford to have two people on my bench.

the Pacers should let Dunleavy get surgery right now. they won't win the championship this season anyway.
might as well let Marquis Daniels develop this year. then next year when Dunleavy comes back, they'll have an awesome trio in Granger, Daniels, and Dunleavy. and the Boston Celtics will be another year older.

otherwise, if the Pacers try to play Dunleavy this year, it could aggravate the injury further. and he'll be bothered the whole season with it. thus doing more damage to it.
and plus, if he gets surgery done right now, he might be able to come back come playoff time.

Spoken like a true Daniels owner.

I'll laugh when Dunleavy comes back and you have to drop Daniels.

Desperation to the extreme

My team only has 3 bench spots (roster below). At what point would it be worth it to pick up Dunleavy if I'm going to get hammered in the mean time (esp with tony parker taking up a spot.)

Not to sure how that would be all that funny.

Dropped him, and it was worth it. He's still sitting on my WWs. No news is worse than bad news IMO up to this point. I mean the guy hasn't even started practicing with the team yet. Dunleavy owners will be very frustrated with that spot just eating away stats. Plus, last year was a career year for him. I don't see him reproducing like that especially with the way Granger is ballin right now, Muprhy is finally healthy for them, TJ Ford eats up some of the looks now, and not to mention that Daniels (if Dun comes back) will get some PT bc of what he has shown so far.

The cards just don't look good for Dunleavy.

I have him in an 8-team Roto league, and have resisted temptation to this point to drop him.

That's primarily due to the fact that, with 18-man rosters, the size of the player pool is comparable to a 10-12 team league, and while guys like NateRob, Pietrus and Azubuike are available, I'm pretty sure I'd rather have a healthy Dunleavy than one of them (could be wrong, but that's the story I'm sticking to for now). I'm pretty confident that someone else would snap him up and stash him away.

That being said, I'm currently running 8th (also have Redd and other teams are using up games now), so I'd like to get some definitive news/plans sooner, rather than later.

Wow, that is a deep team. if we had 18 man rosters he'd probably be scooped up in my league as well. But with 18 man rosters why is Nate still avail. Guy is killin right now, and he doesn't show signs of stopping under Coach D.

No idea....I already have Duhon and Chandler from that squad, and if I didn't already also have Jameer and Foye at PG (along with Billups), I'd probably have grabbed him by now. I may still if Meer plays like his mediocre self for another couple days.

The worst part about it is that I only joined up cause I wanted to get a draft in and hadn't done Roto in BBall before....I figured it would be fun, low pressure, new experience - and I go into today 35 points behind.

If I could go back in time.....

Still hanging on to him... If he can't replicate or improve on last year's numbers, he'll definitely be traded to another team next year...

I agree with one of the previous posters, where if we knew Dunleavy was coming back in 2-3 weeks, I'd prob pick him up, however, the guy has only played 12 minutes all preseason, and hasn't stepped on the court in forever, and there's no updates what so ever.. and even if he does come back, with Indy having next to no shot at the playoffs, do they really play him the remaining 55-60 games or 35 min a game if they think he does need surgery?? I just don't see it.. If someone like Nate Rob was on my waiver wire.. I'd take him and let someone else deal with the headache, but for most of us in deeper leagues its a little tougher call I guess....

Also, to the person who said they had Duhon and Chandler so they didn't want to pick up Nate Rob.. I'd drop Duhon for Nate Rob in a heartbeat.. but that's just me...

That's not necessarily what I wrote. I'm already heavy at PG but the majority aren't big Assist men (or at least they haven't been), but Duhon is, so that's why I haven't made such a switch. But like I also wrote, I might just move out Jameer in the near future.

I'd be a little more Knick-centric than I'd prefer, but I suppose it doesn't matter that much.

He was just dropped in my league too. My gut reflex was to put a waiver claim on him, but I know it'll drive me crazy having that roster spot taken up 'indefinitely.'

I'm in a 10-team, 13-player league with 3 bench spots... I'm having a hell of a time with Josh Smith, Tony Parker, Kevin Martin and Al Harrington all useless right now. Dunleavy was dropped and will clear waivers tomorrow (if nobody puts in a claim)... I'm sitting on the #2 waiver priority and I'm not sure I wanna use it on him, or just keep checking the FA pool around 12:30 in hopes nobody's swooped on him. I'm basically screwed this week/next week/foreseeable future... is adding another busted-up player in hopes that the team comes back with a ridiculous vengeance somewhere down the road completely ludicrous? Don't have much more to lose at this point...

Anybody hear any updates on Dunleavy? This is getting ridiculous ...

Throw me a bone - Pacers.

He just hit wavers in my league this morning.

Anything??? ANybody???

Him & Gilbert are on the wire, but I got burnt by Gilbert last year and Dunleavy led me to the Championship so I am willing to take a gamble on him if his lead doesn't get amputated.

He was recently dropped in a 14-team league. I dumped Louis Williams for him by using my waiver claim.

I love adding valuable players who are temporarily sidelined. I'm just hoping he'll come back and get plenty of PT now.

I am of the opinion that, unless you are in an exceptionally shallow league, he should be owned, simply because we don't know anything about his future. If some news comes out about surgery, go ahead and drop him, no harm done. But if he comes back in a week or four and plays at his previous season's level? You're golden.

I'm in a 10-team H2H league with 16 roster spots. Dunleavy got dropped this past week and I claimed him - now I've got him, Gilbert Arenas and Francisco Garcia taking up space on my bench. I sure hope 2 of the 3 come back soon as I don't think I'll last in 1st place for very long without the extra games...

As a Garcia owner I slightly feel Dunleavy owners' pain, but this is getting ridiculous. How has there not been an update on an organization's franchise player for the entire first month of the season? (I know Granger is the franchise player but Dunleavy is right there)

At least you are in 1st. Tread water in H2H leagues. Likely if you can scrap by week to week, when those guys come back you will be sitting on a ton of value to move in and out depending on games played for the week.

BEST CASE SCENERIO: Let's say he is healed in two weeks and can start practice.

How long do you think it will take him to get back in basketball shape?

Will this injury continue through out the season?

How effective will he be?(will he be the same dunleavy from last yr)

Is he worth losing stats every week for until he comes back/gets in shape?

Waiting till any news at all on his return, dropping Daniels and swooping him before anyone can get him, hopefully.

These are tough questions that I have managed to ignore so far. I'm not dropping him since it's a keeper league, but the number of remaining effective games is certainly growing smaller.

The lack of forthcoming information from the organization is more aggravating than the injury itself.

It's so nice to Own Dunleavy & Ginobuli right now....and have been the first one to nab both Daniels & Mason Jr....

so as soon as those 2 are back.... got the stud starters anyways....

My nightmare with the Dunleavy situation is that he comes back and his knee is so tender that they split minutes with him & Daniels and ruin both their values.... That's my **roll my eyes** scenario I wouldn't be surprised it if played out...

He's doing what you have to do with tendonitis...resting. I'm assuming we haven't heard anything because there's nothing new to say. So, IMO, no news is good news.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic.

With Deron Williams, Josh Smith, Manu and Monta on my bench, I had no choice bit to drop him. At least with the aforementioned players, there is some sort of idea where we stand -- I think that Monta has a better chance of producing this year.

I disagree with you on that take on Monta. Until we know the status of Dunleavy, he's my pick to outperform Ellis this year still. Unless we learn something new in the next few weeks.

What makes you think that Dunleavy would come close to the numbers he put up last year even healthy. Ford has been playing out of his mind and Marquis has earned enough playing time to cut into Dunleavy's production as well. Monta is and will be the better Fantasy player and option.

Offered Al Thornton for Dunleavy, and was rejected. The owner now has TMac, Artest, Okur, JRich, and Dunleavy. Guess when it rains, it pours...

Monta had a horrible ligament tear man. And he did it on a f'ing moped! He was docked 30 games pay as well. I find it highly unlikely that he plays in Dec or Jan and may not even make it back fully healthy this season. Dunleavy on the other hand could come back and play and play at the same level of last season. Daniels is not the answer. TJ is one hard drive in the lane from missing a month or more (remember this guy NEVER can last a full season). O'Neal is gone so it's Granger and Dunleavy with TJ when healthy. If Dunleavy goes under the knife then all bets are off and I would say neither Dunleavy or Ellis will get you anything this season. But at this point today, with the information I have available to me, I'll take Dunleavy because I think Ellis is going to struggle to come back fully healthy this season.

One of the biggest factors in Monta's level of production is the fact that he's riding the Nellie Go Round. Who knows if Nellie will be in love with a new player by then, or if he decides to further 'punish' Monta by cutting minutes.