Bynum potentially out for the rest of season

Obviously they don’t know the full scope, but I’d rather beat all the L*ckers than listen to “if we had…”

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/

Very little information to report (especially since I’m in my living room, not in Memphis), but Andrew Bynum hurt his right knee in the first quarter, after a driving Kobe fell into him under the Grizzlies’ basket. On the replay, it looked like Bynum’s knee was bent straight back (the direction knees aren’t supposed to go), and Bynum was clearly in a great deal of pain, but I’m certainly not going to make a diagnosis from my couch.

On the television broadcast, KCAL’s John Ireland said Bynum would get some x-rays (UPDATE: They were negative, but that really doesn’t mean much) at FedEx Forum, and then the following:

“The preliminary diagnosis is that he has a sprianed right knee. He is done for tonight, will not return. he will undergo an MRI and more tests tomorrow in New York. I’m told that they probably won’t get a lot of information from the x-ray here. They’re going to take a look anyway. More tests tomorrow in New York. Sprained right knee for now, definitely out for the rest of the night.”

Rarely is anything learned about these sorts of things until the next day, at the earliest, when the results of more tests can be seen. Obviously it’s not good news. How bad remains to be seen. So you know, it’s not the same knee Bynum injured last season.

I would guess he will miss games, but it’s unclear if it is more than a sprain.

I think of this more like cosmic karma for what he did to Gerald Wallace.

I feel bad for the kid, and if he was on any other team I would feel REALLY bad for him, it’s just hard for me to pour out tears for a Laker.

That aside, I was pointing out the hypocisy that has been the coverage of “Oden as an injury bust” while Bynum looks to have 2x as many problems as Oden, yet gets heralded as the next best thing…

to go gloat at Forum BLue and Gold?

the two players is amorphous and irrelevant. Assuming Bynum is out until the playoffs, I’d rather hear hear who everyone thinks will finish with the best record in the West.

Not that I’m trying to hijack the thread or anything… I think all the karma comments have killed it already anyway.

"I was able to pick my leg up, which kinda saved me from you know a real major damage to the knee. [you were saying this feels better than last year and you can actually put pressure on it] Yeah I can put pressure on it. I can walk. I don’t need the crutch. It’s just they want me to keep pressure off it. [how you feeling right now what are your thoughts] I’m definitely feeling optimistic, I can’t wait to return, supposedly it’s not gonna be as bad as last year, I’m not gonna miss all that time."

considering how im an epic blazer homer, but i legitimately feel bad for andrew. that is just pure, concentrated rotten luck juice. did you see kobe’s face on the video? he looked like he wanted to puke.

But after how he laid out Gerald Wallace, I’m having a hard time mustering the empathy. Of course no one wishes him harm or for the injury to be any worse than the x-rays have so far shown, but his personality leaves much to be desired.

On that note, is it just me or is there a trend among young players that play under Phil Jackson? They all get cocky and arrogant, even to the point of back-bitting and implosion (Shaq / Kobe) until they actually get exposed to other coaches and realize that Jackson’s personal style isn’t a model for anyone. I recognize that same crap attitude emerging in Bynum that Kobe used to have. Jackson may be a successful coach, but he’s a real peice of work otherwise.

When was the last time the Lakers won in Portland? Is it something like 6 games?

Does that mean that they will simply roll over again these playoffs?

Before or after the finals?

like some pretty good comeuppance for the bush league foul that Bynum laid on Gerald Wallace the other night that broke his rib and collapsed one of his lungs. If anyone was reaping the bad karma they sowed it was Andrew Bynum. Moral of the story is don’t be a jerk and lay down ridiculous fragrant fouls.

No player ever deserves to be hurt but if any player ever did need top sit out a few games for untoward actions it would be Bynum. I think the league should add a new policy that if you hurt someone with an intentional or fragrant foul that you have to sit out for as long as they are hurt. I guess this is Karma just taking care of that for the league :)

I hope Bynum is okay.

I agree the media made too big of a deal out of Oden’s ankle sprain, and Bynum’s injury last year was purty bad (and the recovery) and, to me, it is as much evidence of “injury proneness” as what has happened to Oden— meaning, not much evidence at all. They are both just things that happen, freak things, and aren’t bodies breaking down ala Yao and McGrady.

If Oden gets hurt from another normal, basketball, could-happen-to-anyone type injury, the media will be stupid again. Oden’s extra skin on his face (it ain’t wrinkles of course, just extra skin) makes him look older, which doesn’t help people’s perceptions about him durability wise too.

It’s annoying, but it’s just how it is. It would only be mildly ironic if Bynum proves to be the injury prone one out of the two, since it’s not like everyone criticized Oden’s injuries by contrasting him with iron man Bynum.

Maybe if Durant has a McGrady-type injury filled career, then the media’s obssession with Greg’s freak or normal injuries will go down as funnier (provided Oden is relatively healthy for a big man.)

I get what you were saying, Diskord, but we’re a sensitive group about other players getting hurt, even if they are a Laker. You weren’t gloating, just pointing out the double standard, so don’t worry. We just don’t wanna be a group that takes any delight in another player getting hurt, both out of trying to be good sports AND because of our own injury problems.

Bynum didn’t get hurt because of his bad foul on Wallace, but it’s more fun to think of it that way. One of our guys won’t get hurt if one of us takes delight in it, either. You’ll just go to Hell for it, which isn’t superstitious, it is fact.

Mortimer

Lamar Odom will start at power forward. Chris Mihm should receive approximately 8 to 12 minutes per game backing up Gasol, while Luke Walton should be removed from the starting small forward gig — with Vladimir Radmanovic is reinserted into the lineup — and transformed into Odom’s backup at power forward.

Having had one of those myself, I know a bit about them. Hyperextention is a common mechanism for tearing that ligament, and it appears that Bynum’s knee did hyperextend. But the ligament may be just strained, not ruptured, because most often you can’t put weight on a knee that’s just lost its ACL. Possibly, as Bynum said, he managed to protect his knee at the last instant, thus sparing the ACL.

Of course, the MRI will tell the tale, and as I’m writing this, those results may already have been released…

As far as the karma aspect of gloating, I’m superstitious enough to be leery of that kind of thing. Plus, having had an ACL reconstruction and rehab, I would wish it on VERY few people. KOBE BRYANT is on that short list. But not Andrew Bynum. He’s not one of my faves by any means, but he doesn’t strike me as malicious. He just happens to play for the most despicable franchise in the universe.

and truley feel bad for Bynum, and Miles, when his knee gives up the ghost as well; I agree.
  Why isn’t Bynum a bust? is it because he doen’t look old?

Crazy National Media

I may be celebrating on the inside, but i’m not going to throw a big party because one of our west rivals suffered a big blow. I’d say to keep karma on our side we just hope once more that greg can stay healthy, amen