Ailing Bynum Can't Keep Up With Suns

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PHOENIX -- Andrew Bynum's great size mostly has been looked at as an asset. Now, some are seeing it as an anchor dragging down the Lakers.



While the Lakers' 7-foot, 285-pound starting center won't admit the small cartilage tear in his right knee is the primary reason for his recent poor play, coach Phil Jackson is being a lot more candid. Or at least as candid as Jackson can be without having some side motive.



After the Lakers fell 118-109 to Phoenix on Sunday night at US Airways to have their Western Conference finals lead cut to 2-1, Jackson went so far as to say Bynum could miss an upcoming game to provide some rest for his ailing knee.



"I don't know,'' Jackson said of the chances of that happening for Tuesday's Game 4 after Bynum had just two points and two rebounds Sunday in eight foul-plagued minutes. "I'll talk to him and see what his suggestion is about it and how he feels about it. I thought he was ineffective, I thought, out there.''



Bynum agreed he was ineffective. But he doesn't believe he will sit out any upcoming games and believes Jackson is just trying to motivate him.

 

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