The team is usually extra cautious with injuries like these like when Gasol had that hamstring injury. With the playoffs approaching, I would expect them to take their time.

Just a matter of rest at this point.

Speak from experience. There’s a lack of thorough blood supply to tendons. They take longer to heal, you feel fine after a lot of rest and then you hear it pop again. Trickest injury in athletics.

we are going to need you

For those of you with a serious stats Jones, here’s my favorite:
In seasons when Bynum misses games with injury, the Lakers make the Finals!

In all seriousness I hope Bynum keeps his head up. He’s one who’s confidence really swings when he’s in a slump, injured or otherwise adversely affecting the team. It’s just an age thing, but hopefully that improves with time as well.

Talk about a cluster fuck. Thousands and thousands of peoples in long, long, long lines. Everything was a line. 30 mins for beer, an hour for tacos, etc.

I was actually very lucky in the autograph dept and ended up scoring Kareem, Jamal Wilkes, Mychal Thompson, and Luke Walton. Everyone was super nice except Kareem. That was my first experience with Kareem and he acted like advertised. I asked him how he was doing but he didn’t even respond. The line ended up being close to 4 or 5 hours long at the end which is insane.

Anyways, I’ll stick to my Upper Deck signings and going to the games.

Hope Bynum gets well soon.

what a great night. i think bynum will come back even better he gets a chance to rest and i think he will play with fire when he comes back

Dave Mcmenamin estimates Bynum misses 6 games.

Some choice quotes:

Bynum could not walk on the foot without the assistance of a boot when he woke up Saturday morning, according to Jackson.

“I just have a lot of pain in that area,” Bynum said. “I’ll be re-evaluated in a week. There’s really not too much to say until that really calms down.”

The Lakers will be in Houston in a week, preparing for the Rockets, the third game of their upcoming five-game road trip. Bynum will travel with the team rather than stay back and rehabilitate the injury in Los Angeles. Bynum said that he expected the re-evaluation to occur at the end of the road trip when the team returns to L.A. on April 1, meaning that Bynum will probably be out of the lineup for at least the next six games, counting the Lakers game against the Wizards at home Sunday.

The 22-year-old was starting to play his best basketball of the season, averaging 20.0 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks during the Lakers’ four-game winning streak coming into Friday’s game, but said he hasn’t let the timing of the injury get to him.

Lakers sixth man Lamar Odom will step into the starting lineup in Bynum’s absence, but Odom is dealing with an injury of his own.

Odom has been playing with an aggravated left shoulder that he first injured 14 games ago when going up for a dunk against Boston’s Ray Allen.

“The part that I hate about the injury the most is that when I go to call on it, it might not answer me,” Odom said. “I can go up with the basketball, make a strong move and then [the shoulder will] be like, ‘No, not this time.’ That’s the part that aggravates me the most about it.”

Odom said that he does not expect to shoot well or rebound well, adding, “But, I can still play basketball.” The 6-10 forward said he will wait until the offseason to seek out further medical attention for the shoulder.

My friends, I shall sum all this up in one word: fuck.