Hornets shooting guard Eric Gordon will continue to spend more time on the sidelines than on the court (Photo: Parker Waters).
The New Orleans Hornets will be without their established top star for awhile.
Eric Gordon is out indefinitely with a right knee injury, Hornets head coach Monty Williams told reporters on the morning of the team's season opener Wednesday.
The injury is the same one that limited him to just nine games last season - Gordon's first with New Orleans. He had arthroscopic surgery on the knee in February.
"He's going to be out," Williams said. "The way I understand it, he's going to be out indefinitely until we get some more clarity on what's going on so I don't have to answer these questions every day and give you guys the update. We'll just go from there."
Gordon signed a four-year, $58-million offer sheet in the offseason that the Hornets matched.
The Hornets' media relations staff not give reporters access to Gordon.
Gordon missed the entire preseason nursing the injury, but the shooting guard out of Indiana had been practicing with the team in hopes of playing in Wednesday night's season-opener against the San Antonio Spurs.
Gordon averaged 22.3 points and 4.4 assists per game in his last season (2010-11) with the L.A. Clippers before he was packaged to New Orleans in a deal for All-Star point guard Chris Paul.
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