LA Lakers Answer: Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, not Bynum, Were There All Along

Please forgive this blatant patronization of 21-year-old center Andrew Bynum, Los Angeles Lakers fans.

While every spin move, baseline dunk and energetic defensive play may get your imagination dancing about his possible future dominance, it makes me want to projectile vomit.

Never before has such an expensive, unproven youngster been given credit for doing so little.

When the Boston Celtics shellacked the Lakers by 39 points in a fateful Game Six, some wondered if Bynum's presence would have altered the lopsided final score.

Those incessant questions were misguided and fool-hearted.

One guy who has never performed in the pressure-packed playoffs cannot reverse the kind of six-game beatdown the Lakers endured las...

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