When is Bynum coming back?

[lakaluva's mangina]

Any updates?

[ChuckD]

Kobe 39:50 L

Thanks, Phil.

[duncan228]

Phil Jackson is tired of waiting for Andrew Bynum
Kurt Helin

We told you this weekend, Andrew Bynum is close to returning. No, we really mean it this time.

Phil Jackson reacts to that like a coach — he wants to win games now. He knows he needs Andrew Bynum healthy come May and June to get his three-peat, but he sees Indiana being able to get into the paint on his team and nobody defending the rim and he gets frustrated.

So he does a little backhand slap of Andrew Bynum for not being healed on schedule. As if Bynum has ever healed on schedule. But Jackson came off as frustrated with Bynum to the Los Angeles Times.

“We had hoped that (Bynum’s return date) would be three weeks about three weeks ago,” Jackson said Sunday before detailing the months-long wait for Bynum’s return from knee surgery last July.

“This [surgery] is something that was supposed to take place after the season and he was supposed to be ready by the season, and we built our team around that fact. Well, everything got delayed,” Jackson said. “His operation wasn’t done on time, Andrew was late to his operation, there was a whole myriad of things that have gone on in this thing.

“But the type of operation he has is a very unique operation. It’s not just a simple operation, so that changed the complexity of all this.”

Jackson is being a bit disingenuous here. Bynum’s surgery after the season was delayed so he could go to the World Cup and Europe for vacation — something Jackson encouraged him to do. Don’t go blaming Bynum now for something you were good with in July. (The surgery was pushed back two weeks a second time due to the availability of the doctor, unrelated to Bynum.)

Then the surgery ended up being more complicated and requiring a longer healing process than had been anticipated. It was going to take time. Still is taking time. Why the Lakers expected Bynum back on their or their doctor’s timetables remains a mystery. Bynum heals on Bynum time. Always has.

And in the end, as frustrated as Jackson gets, he needs Bynum at the end of the season more than the start. So he needs to let Bynum heal, at his own pace.

[Giuseppe]

And who'd a figured Gasol would be tuckered & throw backed less than 20 games in?

[21_Blessings]

The reckoning is coming.

[kamikazi_player]

The injury prone player's back

[Giuseppe]

The injury prone player's back

Though Howard is still ringless & Perkins still recuperating where Bynum left them.

[Texas_Ranger]

LAL should trade him for D.Howard.

[21_Blessings]

The injury prone player's back

He's more important to the Lakers than Duncan is to the Spurs at this point

[Texas_Ranger]

He's more important to the Lakers than Duncan is to the Spurs at this point

Not really. Without Tim no one on our team could get a rebound or block a shot. And he's a very good passer for a big. With no Tim there would be small ball all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if Jefferson played center.

[kamikazi_player]

lmao glassnum more important than duncan. Kobe is just as important as Gary Neal

[21_Blessings]

glassnum

scraping from the bottom of the barrel

[Giuseppe]

Kobe is just as important as Gary Neal

Just because Neal raped you lucked out and got him.

me.

[21_Blessings]

Kobe is just as important as Gary Neal

Neal has him beat on the rapist front, though.

edit: Why even try. Cubster too quick.

[j.dizzle]

Uh-oh, Drew Chamberlain haters aren't gonna like this.
http://twitter.com/LakersReporter/st...46247064293377

[DJB]

Who is Bynum?

[21_Blessings]

Just watched Andrew Bynum throw down a serious one-handed alley-oop from Blake, then baby-hook on next 4-on-4 possession.

NBA=

[rickross]

NBA=

glassnum is just on a short vacation to the court, he'll be back to the bench to chill wit his pal g oden.

[ElNono]

Bynum's knee=

fify

[ChuckD]

He's more important to the Lakers than Duncan is to the Spurs at this point

Considering that Duncan's "aging numbers" are about what Bynum put up last year, and far better than Bynum's career numbers, I'd say that's not even remotely true.



Bynum is knock-kneed, and as such. will never be healthy, leg wise. It just puts too many bizarre stresses in normal places.

[Giuseppe]

^Though a month after Duncan suffered The Skunker---Bynum put Perkins in the hospital enroute to #16.

[KapitanTutan]

Who is Bynum?

lakers 2nd GOAT center

next to kareem

[ChuckD]

^Though a month after Duncan suffered The Skunker---Bynum put Perkins in the hospital enroute to #16.

1) the only way you won.
2) over their careers, Bynum will be in the hospital FAR more than Perkins.

[Giuseppe]

1) the only way you won.
2) over their careers, Bynum will be in the hospital FAR more than Perkins.

1) I never qualify a ring, Chuck. It's my religion.

2) perhaps, but, on that particular June night, Perkins went, and he went alone.

[Banzai]

Are you considered cool if you have your own troll?