If and when that day finally comes, it won't be the same. Not like it should be. Not like it once was. It's come to this. Excitement over Bynum practicing, but not really. That's what we celebrate now, for the always-injured center. This was incredible.
Bynum was playing actual basketball, on the floor with other people and everything. Never mind that he wasn't cleared to participate in all of practice or play in actual games. Look at him on the floor. Playing basketball. Forget everything else. Only we can't. I've lost count of how many setbacks Bynum has incurred over the last eight years or so, probably because no human being—save for John Nash of A Beautiful Mind —could count that high.
What I haven't lost sight of is the effects those setbacks, those initial injuries have had on his availability. That is, if you can even call it that. Through eight seasons, Bynum has appeared in regular-season games.
Yes, we're counting last year. Those misinformed, potentially manipulated updates didn't take a holiday, so his career won't either. For those mathematical geniuses out there, that's an average of 49 games a season. A season. Of the regular-season contests he's been in the NBA for, that's how many he's played in Essentially, he's been available half the time.
More exactly, he's played Menial updates have become breaking news because of this. Bynum gets out of bed and dresses himself this morning. Bynum dances the conga line at dinner and survives. Bynum had pulled chicken and a side of gravy fries for lunch. Fed himself and everything. This is where we're at. It's almost Greg Oden-like at this point. The clouds parted when he dunked on his first possession with the Miami Heat and rightfully so.
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Choice is:. Powered by. Totals Bold indicates league leader. It was surreal. But emotions and expectations were riding high. This would finally get the Sixers over that No. But, you know: Bynum! Now that we look back with a severely bitter taste in our mouths about the trade, it's important to note that Bynum was coming off the best year of his career.
In , he started 60 games for the Lakers, averaging over 35 minutes. Bynum posted He was an All-Star. And he was on our team now. But that was the double-edged sword no one saw coming. He was on our team and he was now our team's problem. What ensued with Bynum's tenure on the Sixers was nothing short of a circus that would also come to rival Creed's entrance to fight Ivan Drago.
Every other day, reports trickled out about Bynum's knee injury, and if he was indeed on the practice court. At the start of that season, the team announced that Bynum was rehabbing his knee injury. OK, a knee issue, no big deal, right? Fast forward to mid-November and a few weeks into the season Bynum had yet to log a second on the court for the Sixers. He suffered a season-ending injury in January, which prompted the Lakers to trade for Pau Gasol , whose addition did nothing but help Andrew Bynum with his development.
But he was now considered one of the top big men in the league, arguably second to only Dwight Howard. Bynum averaged Bynum was an even bigger piece of the puzzle when the Lakers won their second consecutive title in , staying mostly healthy and averaging a then-career-high 15 points per game.
Two years later, Bynum enjoyed the best season of his career, earning his first and only NBA All-Star nod, averaging But concerns over his maturity and attitude became a problem, and his career would spiral from there.
He was benched by Mike Brown after waking up one day and deciding that he wanted to shoot threes.
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