Hansbrough probably out for the rest of the year

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Not very good news for ex National Player of the Year and lottery pick Tyler Hansbrough as it sounds that he will not return to the line up this season for the Indiana Pacers. So says the head coach of the team in this small online article. In all the power forward from Poplar Bluff has missed the last 23 of 27 games for his team due to an inner ear infection and in the games he did play he had to come out due to dizziness. It has gotten so bad that the rookie forward hasn’t been allowed to do any on-court work out since the beginning of the month. Coach Jim O’Brien said this in an interview on the radio:

“I’m not sure we’re going to have Tyler back this year,” O’Brien said. “His difficulties might last throughout this year. If he got better in three weeks, he would have to recondition and I don’t know if it would be in his best interest to make a showing.”

It’s definitely not been the season that Hansbrough, or anyone else around him, had wanted. Before the season the rookie had to sit out due to shin problems. Now this inner ear infection. I am sure that Hansbrough, who has always been reknowned for his hard work, must be truly upset with all of this, and would love to be working at proving more and more of his critics wrong. During his first year, where he played 29 games, he averaged 17.6 minutes, 8.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.0 assists. I am sure that those numbers would have grown if the young man had been able to be on the court on a constant basis.

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