In order to fix his ongoing left knee injury, Jermaine O'Neal is willing to sit out the rest of the season.

O'Neal told the Indianapolis Star on Sunday that his knee has not fully recovered and that he returned to the court too soon following his April surgery.

"That's really the prime option for me," O'Neal said Sunday afternoon, of sitting out the rest of the season. "We're going to rehab now like it was the summer with an extensive rehab. If that consists of a month or the rest of the season, I need to take the necessary steps to not come back on something that's not really healthy."

"That's the thing we have been saying. It's OK, but it really hasn't really been OK."