This coming Monday, Ron Mercer will undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery, which is expected to knock him out for at least one month.

"We have no timetable for his return because they don't know exactly [what is wrong]," explained Nets GM Ed Stefanski. "When they go in, they'll find out what it is and obviously do the procedure. But they don't know until they go in and scope it.

"They'll go in and if they see it's nothing, it may be a month or so ? but if there's something there, they'll address it there. But they don't know. That's why we got a second opinion," Stefanski said.