While Lakers wait, Bynum faces surgery
The Lakers avoided a Game 7 and now can wine and dine while others tussle to play them. Surgery for Andrew Bynum, however, is another matter.
The team disclosed Sunday that Bynum would undergo arthroscopic surgery Wednesday on his injured left knee.
The rest of the Lakers bought themselves some time with their series clincher over the Utah Jazz on Friday, which meant that the same Wednesday as the surgery would be the start of the Western Conference finals at Staples Center.
That leaves tonight for watching Game 7 between the New Orleans Hornets and San Antonio Spurs in a series that could signify a passing of the torch from the aging to the up-and-coming.
And to the victors, a chance to play the Lakers.
Phil Jackson used Sunday to contemplate each team’s distinctions and drawbacks.
“They’ve been through a lot of heavy battles over the last three years with that group of guys that they are real comfortable with,” Jackson said of the Spurs.
“They’ve got pretty much a known answer to a variety of problems. They’re the oldest team in the league, and that weighs a lot in the experience factor. It also weighs against them in just the recovery aspect of it.
“On the other side, you’ve got a very young team, full of confidence and very capable, very athletic, that has a combination of driving and shooting capabilities. . . . So, we’ve got two teams that are very competent, very proficient.”
The tipping point may be the venue, with the game tonight in the Big Easy. The Hornets are 6-0 there this postseason, and the home-court team is 22-2 in the second round.
The Hornets have run through the Spurs by an average of nearly 20 points in the three games at New Orleans Arena during the series. Hornets forward David West is expected to play after sitting out the end of Game 6 because of a sore back, provided by a Robert Horry pick.
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ok, a real link to the supposed offense might be helpful here.
But will we see Fox News and CNN blow this out of proportion? Will people speculate about why he was flipping the bird to his own team?
yeah, i can’t seem to find it, either…YET!
I doubt there’s going to be a clip of it on Youtube. It was just something he did in the post-game interview.But that’s my point, it’s not newsworthy, it’s not even Youtube-worthy, and neither was Obama’s supposed “flip”.