A.J. Price injured his left knee in a charity basketball game Saturday night in New York. He was examined by Pacers doctors Monday afternoon and will undergo surgery Tuesday in Indianapolis to repair a fractured left patella.

He will rehabilitate here with the Pacers? medical staff and is expected to be out four to six months.

Pacers point guard A.J. Price suffered a knee injury on Saturday while playing in a charity game in Long Island.

Price told Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star that he will have surgery on his left knee something this week.

"I was making a move to the basket and it happened," Price said. "It's something with my kneecap. I'm going to be out a few months."

A second-round pick out of Connecticut, Price averaged 7.3 points and 1.9 assists in his rookie season.

Gordon Hayward would love to play for his hometown Indiana Pacers.

However, he realizes that playing for the Pacers would also bring added pressure.

"I think playing at home, there is that extra pressure with me growing up there my whole life and the Pacers are going through some struggles right now," Hayward said Thursday. "But for me, it would be special to play anywhere."

Indiana has the No. 10 pick in next month's NBA Draft and some have projected Hayward to go as high as the tenth in the first round.

There have been murmurs that the Pacers could leave Indianapolis if the city doesn't agree to pay Conseco Fieldhouse's operating costs.

Team officials aren't ruling anything out, even though moving the team isn't their intent.

The operating costs for the Fieldhouse are $15.4 million annually.

The Indianapolis Star writes that, according to experts familiar with similar situations, it's not likely that the Pacers will relocate.

The team has a complicated contract with the city and there are a limited number of cities that could offer the Pacers an enticing deal.

If the Nets land the first overall pick, and in turn Kentucky's John Wall, current point guard Devin Harris might become available.

Although New Jersey hasn't ruled out playing the two together in the event they draft Wall, president Rod Thorn has already received calls about Harris.

"I can't lie about it," Thorn said. "I've had calls about that."

The Hawks, Heat and Pacers may have interest in Harris.

A new study has determined that Indianapolis businesses would lose $55 million if the Pacers left town.

Hunden Strategic Partners conducted the research for the Marion County Capital Improvement Board.

The CIB owns Conseco Fieldhouse, where the Pacers play home games. The Pacers have been paying $15 million in operating costs each year.

More than a year ago, the CIB said the team could move, be sold or shut down if a resolution isn't reached.

The Pacers have said they'd like to have a deal in place by June 30.

The Pacers are looking to bring in a big man's coach to work with young center Roy Hibbert.

They are still trying to figure out just who that coach might be, but Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star says that Kevin McHale is a possibility.

Pacers assistant coach Dan Burke has worked with Hibbert a lot and he showed noticeable improvement in his season NBA season.

As expected, Pacers point guard T.J. Ford is picking up his player option for next season.

Ford will make $8.5 million in the final year of his contract.

His agent, Bob Myers, says that the paperwork is in the process.

Indiana coach Jim O'Brien benched Ford at midseason in favor of veteran Earl Watson and rookie A.J. Price.

Ford told RealGM's Andrew Perna back in March that he expected to hear his name in trade rumors this summer.

The Pacers fired vice president of player relations Sam Perkins on Friday.

Perkins, who spent part of his playing career in Indiana, held the position for two years.

The firing had been coming for quite some time, according to Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star.

Perkins and the rest of the front office didn't always see eye-to-eye and the team didn't feel he was a good communicator.