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Written by Don   
Friday, 30 January 2009 09:56
There's been a lot of talk over the last two days about the awful, crunching foul Andrew Bynum put on Gerald Wallace, a foul that resulted in Wallace with writhing in pain on the floor with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
"Bynum intentionally did that to break his ribs"
"Bynum's a thug..."
"Andrew Bynum always does this..."
"The NBA should suspend him..."
Or likening the play to the WWE

G-WallaceWhilst I feel for Gerald Wallace, responses like that are ridiculous.  Nothing more.
Yes, Andrew Bynum was caught out of position.
Yes, he did crash into Wallace intentionally, stopping what would have been a sure dunk.  But to assert that it was either intentional, or that Bynum does the like with regularity is at best mistaken, and at worst duplicitious.
Larry Brown didn't think so, telling the Charlotte Observer
“That kid waited at our bus, trying to get to Gerald, and he apologized to me.  If he had a history of that (rough play), I might feel different, but I just think it was a hard foul.”

The knee-jerk responses like Rick Bonnell treated us to are ridiculous, and pro-sports writers should know better.  Yes, it's your team, but someone who gets paid to write should be able to divorce feeling from reality, and give a more balanced account.

It was a hard foul, but hard fouls happen in basketball - that's not to excuse what Bynum did.  He should know better, and this should serve as a learning experience for him.  He's a big guy, he has a responsibility to those on the court  to play accordingly - and not just towads those on his team.  But injuries happen in sport.  Simply a reality.  Bynum isn't a thug, and he didn't do this intentionally.  The focus should be on Wallace, and his health.  Hoping he gets better soon - he's a very good player and an integral part of the Bobcats team.

Bynum's foul was upgraded by the NBA from a flagrant 1 to a flagrant 2.


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written by brumbygg, February 01, 2009
Thank goodness it wasn't KG who committed the foul or we would reading another invective-filled diatribe on the inherent thuggishness of the mam. Fortunately, it was one of the lily white Lakers wide-eyed innocents who deserves to be counseled, not castigated........
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written by with-malice, February 01, 2009
Err... that's unfair. Point me towards the historic instances of Andrew Bynum being a thug.

And moot point anyway - if it had been KG, he would have been standing over Wallace, yelling at him in a spittle-flying frenzy.
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written by brumbygg, February 01, 2009
Just pushing your buttons man - didn't see it, have no credible take on the incident....... but I won the bet with myself about how long it would take you to respond and whether the word "unfair" would appear!
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written by with-malice, February 01, 2009
Well... enjoy that beer.

Was pretty sickening, and Bynum looked gutted. Really sad that he went down not a few days later too.
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written by brumbygg, February 02, 2009
But then again, if a Laker pulled a gun on the court and shot some random punter in the crowd for heckling you'd probably say it was the first time and why should we condemn a man for one mistake that any of us could make???????
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written by with-malice, February 02, 2009
Sigh... someone hasn't had his meds today.
Go take 'em, and come back when your hip feels better you cantankerous ol' bastard!
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written by brumbygg, February 02, 2009
LOL.... 4 days sunshine, make the most of them!

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