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Mike Dunleavy practices, targets a February return to action

Published Jan. 25, 2016 6:42 p.m. ET

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Brett Pollakoff

Mike Dunleavy was a key rotation player for the Bulls last year who started in all 63 of his regular season appearances and averaged 29.2 minutes per game while knocking down almost 41 percent of his looks from three-point distance.

He has yet to play this year as he's recovered from offseason back surgery, but he's practicing with the team, will travel on the West coast trip that begins Thursday, and hopes to return to the lineup sometime next month.

“The back feels great. It's mostly conditioning, rhythm, timing,” Dunleavy said, via CSN Chicago. “I haven't played a game since May. There's kind of a readjustment and getting back in the swing of things. But overall I feel really good.”

“It's been awful, from a personal standpoint,” Dunleavy said. “I feel mostly bad for the organization, my teammates, coaches, just not being there for them. Somebody who considers himself reliable and someone you can count on, not being able to be there is the biggest thing for me. Looking forward to being out there and being with the guys and contributing.”

Dunleavy is a three-and-D type of player that could really help if he can return to last season's levels of production. He singlehandedly rattled a young Bucks team in the first round of the playoffs, and is a guy who tends to be in the right place at the right time in doing all of the little things that can make a team successful.

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