Andrew Bynum suspended, fined

That act and the situation it came in deserved at least a dozen games no matter what his history was. He got off light.
 
Lakers are going to dump him for guard help in the offseason, so now whoever is trading for him has more leverage.
 
Lakers would jump at Parker for Bynum in a heartbeat, although I think they'd prefer Hill and another forward (Bonner or Blair).
 
Parker is slightly overrated IMO, but he's still better than Bynum. Bynum is also overrated because people keep judging him on potential - "if only he didn't keep getting injured, he might turn out to be a great player", "that was a great game today, if he plays like that more often he'll be unstoppable", etc.

The only thing that even makes this trade slightly sensible is that the Spurs need another big man and are currently overloaded on the perimeter, granted part of that is Jefferson who has been a huge disappointment.
 
The overrating of Bynum is flat out bizarre. I saw somewhere (Bleacher report of perhaps a little less reputable) article questioning if he has potential to be the greatest Laker Center ever. Ok, are you too young to remember Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, ... even Vlade?
 
Lakers would take Hill/Jefferson for Bynum. Throw in a car wash and they'll give up Steve Blake as well.
 
I was just watching the 30 for 30 Knicks/pacers episode and got a good laugh at the difference between a hard foul less than 20 years ago and posters on here today calling for jail time.
 
Wad, your posts seem sensible now, but you were the one who said he deserved jail time for assault charges and that he should be put down before he hurt anybody else.

Nobody disagrees that it was a classless foul and deserved a suspension and fine. Whether it be 5 games or 10 games doesn't matter to me. I saw the 700k figure that it would cost him and that seems like a heck of a lot of money that this is going to cost him. In addition he could lose sponsorships now or in the future. We should all be satisfied with the result of this. He made himself look back and there isn't anything the league needs to do more than what he has already done to himself and his image.

I miss the basketball of the 80's and early 90's. Hard fouls and fierce competitiveness. You watch some of those old series and just wish you could have one of those today. They have made the NBA a ticky tack foul league in which they give the guy with the ball basically the right to drive to the bucket and get to the free throw line.

It took Michael Jordan a few years of getting bullied by the Pistons to get tough enough to stand up to them and become a champion. Then it didn't matter who he faced the rest of his career. He was battle tested and he overcame. I wonder if some of the guys in today's league would be champions at the end of their career if they had to face inside D like Jordan did in his day. The Celtics from the last few years and the Pistons team before them, and perhaps the Sacramento team before them are the only teams that come to mind in last decade who could have played old school D if the league would have allowed it. The Pistons and Celtics did get championships but imagine who would have won the past 10 years if the league had allowed tougher play like they did 20 years ago.
 
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