What's the appropriate penalty for Bynum?

would be appropriate, unless NBA deems him intentionally attempting to injure the player. Anything more than 10 games would be unfair.

Unfortunately, Bynum has shown himself to be of low character.

This is a repeated offense (all within one season btw).

As Manzell stated before…he collapsed Gerald Wallace’s lung and then fouled Beasley hard.

Aside from the fact that this is extremely bad for the league’s image (thuglike)…Bynum needs to be stopped. They need to make sure that he never does it again.

A 10 game suspension would not upset me.

Let’s keep this team and the league as clean as possible.

btw…I hate Barrea…so it was slightly / sickeningly pleasing to me at first….

 wish he would have done that in game 1. Set a different tone for the series and establish the lakers as the agressor.

really a disgusting play that makes it impossible for Laker fans to defend him anymore… you can say it does not reflect his character but the best show of character is what you do when you’re upset, if you can control yourself or not. Obviously, he is not of that caliber.

telling us what our perception of our own players should be.

that play will be part of playoff highlights whenever the Lakers play the Mavs just like Kurt Rambis getting knocked down by the C’s. NBA acts disgusted by this type of action but they milk the hell out of it for their marketing purposes.

Here’s my take on it:
  like everything else out there – and every “questionable play” not a single person here is the person who commited the alleged offense. So realistically speaking, every single one of the people on here claiming that it was “intent to cause injury” or that it’s a “disgusting play” is just plain idiotic. How can you determine another person’s mindset or what they really intedned to do in ANY given situation? Your off your rocker if you think your going to sell me that line of bull. If that’s the case, maybe you should be on TV selling your mind reading powers and making millions… instead of sitting here whinning about how other people live their lives.
 While i don’t condone someone literally trying to injure or end a players season or something worse, this wasn’t something that you can overreact to and blow out of purportion. It was a good hard foul, and you CANNOT hold Andrew any more accountable because the player was half his size, that’s the price JJ pays (and he assumes that risk) by driving into the paint, plain and simple.
It’s irrelevent if Andrew has had "questionable’ plays in the past, and yes this play in hindsight was probably misguided due to the game and series being out of reach, but there is still not a problem for me that he sent JJ a message. Crap like you people overreacting is why the NBA has less people like Dennis Rodman and Shaq .. the time of the real NBA is coming to an end, and we all might as well go watch soccor…

Just my take is all …