Real talk is Andrew Bynum ok

[Knicks4life]

Originally Posted by Jace

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/86...s-indefinitely

How did they get worse since he was traded?

Orthokine/Regenokine surgery?

[Hyperion]

Old thread that I came back to without refreshing, yeah it's to Sancho not you.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Knicks4life

Orthokine/Regenokine surgery?

That's what Bynum implied, but Kobe has gone, what, 3 rounds with it? Obviously it didn't exactly fully resurrect Roy's career, and we've yet to see the effect on Oden, but everyone else seems to have benefited from it. Never heard of it taking a guy from basically healthy to fire and brimstone.

[E.H. Munro]

Bynum was never "basically healthy" though. The article above features a quote from someone from the Sixers stating that they knew his knees were a mess when they traded for him. Orlando's GM can now proudly say that even though he traded Dwight for nothing, he still didn't get the worst of the deal.

[Jamel Irief]

Originally Posted by E.H. Munro

Bynum was never "basically healthy" though. The article above features a quote from someone from the Sixers stating that they knew his knees were a mess when they traded for him. Orlando's GM can now proudly say that even though he traded Dwight for nothing, he still didn't get the worst of the deal.

Not sure how Orlando getting nothing means they were better off than the sixers getting nothing. Plus as said they made a calculated risk. The Magic just waived a white flag and bent over.

[Jace]

He said they knew there was risk. We're about to get into a petty semantics debate, but "basically" healthy meant able to play nearly a full season.

[E.H. Munro]

Originally Posted by Jamel Irief

Not sure how Orlando getting nothing means they were better off than the sixers getting nothing. Plus as said they made a calculated risk. The Magic just waived a white flag and bent over.

I would think it was obvious that I was making a joke there. But there's at least a kernel of truth in it as the Magic will get the opportunity to draft the next Brandon Bass with one of those low firsts!

Originally Posted by Jace

He said they knew there was risk. We're about to get into a petty semantics debate, but "basically" healthy meant able to play nearly a full season.

Except that he wasn't basically healthy. We had this discussion about his knee issues all summer, the Sixers had four different specialists look at those MRIs because he wasn't healthy, and they wanted a realistic assessment of the risk. Apparently the seven footer with bad knees and a history of poor conditioning has a degenerative condition. Shocking, I know.

[LA68]

Originally Posted by E.H. Munro

Bynum was never "basically healthy" though. The article above features a quote from someone from the Sixers stating that they knew his knees were a mess when they traded for him. Orlando's GM can now proudly say that even though he traded Dwight for nothing, he still didn't get the worst of the deal.

I would rather get nothing than what Orlando got. Sixers let Bynum go and at least they get cap room to try and get someone else.

Orlando should have gotten a bonafide player or expiring deals. They got neither. Now they have untradable players with multi year deals who can't take anyone anywhere.

I better not hear another bad word about Jim Buss ! To get the best big in the game for someone who can't play one game ? How more lopsided can it get.

I thought the new CBA was designed to stop the Lakers from fleecing suckers ??

[E.H. Munro]

I've been mocking Orlando for so long over their getting less for Howard than Cleveland did for James it felt good to congratulate them for a change. But not for anything they did but because the Sixers gave up Andre Iguodala for nothing. Of course, it makes sense that Philly'd get less for Iguodala than Orlando did for Howard.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by E.H. Munro

Except that he wasn't basically healthy. We had this discussion about his knee issues all summer, the Sixers had four different specialists look at those MRIs because he wasn't healthy, and they wanted a realistic assessment of the risk. Apparently the seven footer with bad knees and a history of poor conditioning has a degenerative condition. Shocking, I know.

I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. Last year he was healthy enough to play a full season, and by all indications, he's not even healthy enough to get on the floor right now. He alluded to being in much more discomfort now than during last season. That's what I meant by basically healthy. Everyone knows his knees are ****ed. All I'm saying is clearly something happened for them to decline since he was able to do last year what he can't this year.

[E.H. Munro]

Yes, but he's bone on bone now, so I'd wager that staying on the court all of last year (in what was essentially a contract year since this season was an option year) caused enough damage that the Sixers team doctor got one look at those MRIs and sent out the SOS for specialists. Size and conditioning has done for everything else.