Court Awareness: Bynum's Forty-Deuce, House Party in Miami, And Rip The Reserve

Before suffering his season-ending knee injury last January, Andrew Bynum was in the midst of the most productive month of his young career. He had firmly supplanted Kwame Brown as the Lakers’ starting center and was averaging 20.8 points and 12.8 rebounds per game. It’s been about a year and some change since that day last season and Bynum is once again using the first month of the Gregorian calendar to remind the world why the Lakers rewarded him with a four-year, $58 million contract extension — despite having not played a meaningful game since January 13, 2008. On Wednesday night, Bynum scored a career-high 42 points, grabbed 15 rebounds, and added four blocks in helping the Lakers (33-8) defeat their Staples Center co-tenants, the Los Angeles Clippers (9-32), 108-97. Kobe Bryant recorded his second triple-double in his last three games with 18 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds. If not for the uniforms it would have been difficult to tell that it was a designated home game ... (link)