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Not Again!!! ~ LA Lakers

1:28 PM PST on February 2, 2009

About a year ago, I wrote a post entitled "8 Weeks", about Andrew Bynum's knee injury, which was supposed to keep him out of the lineup for 8 weeks after a teammate landed on his knee and popped his kneecap in a game against Memphis. Big Drew missed the entire season including the playoffs.

Deja Vu, man. Fuck. Andrew's other knee has an MCL tear after a teammate ran into him against Memphis, and he'll be out 8-12 weeks. The chances of him coming back for the playoffs look slim, although people in the know say an MCL tear is not as serious as an ACL tear, and can possible heal without surgery. We'll see...

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Cz Bartok
I moved to L.A. 15 years ago after recovering from a crippling case of East Coast Bias. Viva California.

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