SMDHAndrew Bynum has left the Indiana Pacers. It was mutual.
Well, that couldn’t have gone much worse.
Let’s take a look back at the Andrew Bynum era in Indiana: 36 minutes over the course of two games, scoring 23 points and pulling down 19 rebounds during what amounted to two little tests in the regular season. Oh, and he used a lot of training room ice. Spent some time in the anti-gravity treadmill. That’s basically all of it.
Andrew Bynum’s time in Indiana is done, the team announced Wednesday — he will miss the remainder of the playoffs and not be with the team.
“We want to thank Andrew and our medical staff for trying to get the issues with his knee resolved,” Pacers President Larry Bird said in a released statement. “We wish him the best in the future.”
The Pacers signed him as a free agent Feb. 1 for $1 million. Despite Bird’s public protestations, this was really a signing designed to keep Bynum away from the Heat or another team that might use him against the Pacers in the playoffs (at the time of the signing that was a concern). If the Pacers got anything out of Bynum, great, but when he was signed the guys in the locker room shrugged.
To be fair Bynum is not at fault for the collapse we have seen in Indiana — he was barely around the team, he didn’t change the chemistry, he was not taken seriously enough to damage chemistry. It’s not Bynum’s fault that somehow Roy Hibbert has morphed into a poor man’s Kendrick Perkins on the court. (The Danny Granger for Evan Turner move by Bird had a bigger impact in the locker room and on the court.)
Bynum’s NBA future going forward is largely nonexistent. He has serious knee issues and doesn’t like to play through pain in them. His chances in Cleveland and Indiana largely went poorly — he can do some things still on the court but he can’t really get and stay on the court.
I like Bynum, he’s smart and honest. He’s got a diversity of interests in his life, he is curious and likes to explore. That makes for an interesting person. However, it doesn’t really make for a great NBA player — that requires a singular focus that is just not in Bynum’s nature.
Because he’s big and skilled some team may give him a small, non-guaranteed contract. Maybe a training camp invite. But the days of investing in Bynum are gone, and soon he will be free to bowl when he wants, to flamenco dance his way across Europe without being bothered by nagging NBA responsibilities and fans.
Too bad his ty at ude finally caught up with him. Now it's time for him to spend all his money, and be on 30 for 30 in 10 years.
Even with Hibbert playing like Kwame, they still got rid of Baby Drew. Wow
Just another victim of the LkrFan Curse
Esteban is on a roll lately. Going to surpass the Undertaker's Wrestlemania streak, except it's a losing record
After cutting off the tumor, the healing may begin. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Pacers sweep the rest of the series now.
RIP
23pts and 19 rebounds in 26 mins???
holy ing , Spurs need to sign this for the min. Hand him a used Duncan kneebrace, a used TD jockstrap and in Pop's system he'll probably make the 2015 allstar team
do it RC
ClasshJust another victim of the LkrFan Curse
If it's really his knees holding him back, he'll sign with the Suns; it'd be a perfect fit for both.
If it is his at ude (more than likely) I hope he spends all his money in Blair-like fashion.
tbh nothing to lose
11.5p and 9.5r per game and Indiana didn't let him play more than 36 minutes in two games?
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Except for the Suns will actually want him to run, something he couldn't even do before his knees exploded.
Baby Drew is probably retiring. He went out like a pimp stealing millions tho.
They'd change their style a bit if their medical staff could work another miracle tbh imo fwiw.
3/11 - makes Pacers debut, 3/4 8PTS 10REB
3/12 - did not practice
3/14 - did not play in first of B2B
3/15 - plays against Sixers, 6/18 15PTS 7REB
3/17 - did not play, MRI on knee
3/18 - fluid drained
3/20 - out indefinitely
4/17 - out for 1st round
5/7 - removed from team
If true, there's nothing wrong with that. We see it all the time in society, the guy who was an engineer, a fry cook, a construction laborer, a truck driver, got a master's degree in Biology, then went to go roughneck, works at a call center, then goes on to become a research scientist at ExxonMobil.
Definitely the most interesting scros to meet. A wide variety of skills but specialize in nothing and work menial jobs but are some of the happiest/carefree scros around. They will never have impressive careers or get to the top. Unfortunately, it looks bad when you're a professional athlete (and black)
In before the Spurs sign him to a training camp invite and upstairs explodes.
IF and its a gigantic IF, he had stayed healthy, he was a very good and productive player who had many mental flaws and was a locker room cancer. However, I'm kind of glad his career ended early and he went out like a . I've read HORRIBLE things about Bynum in his stay at LA, about how he got speeding tickets all the time and didnt give a (ok not so bad), about how he parked in handicap parking spaces constantly, how he played rap music as loud as possible until Mike Brown sent him home on several occasions, how he basically said Lakers were his franchise, then finally said he doesnt care where he plays after.
Dude is the Jaden Smith of the NBA tbh
why didnt they keep him as trade bait?
Wow, I completely forgot about this guy lol
His at ude has to be a factor. Otherwise, why wouldn't the Pacers at least keep him on the bench until after the season? They still have to pay him either way. No reason to let him go now unless he's a bad apple.
Ya more than likely he got kicked out due to pouting and being an all around sack of .
It's ironic how Hibbert's struggles started around the time Bynum was signed and how his big effort in game 2 happened on the very day Bynum is released.
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