Lakers Fine With Making Their Run Sans Bynum

Not that any of us had the future of these playoffs down pat, but here’s some big Lakers news:↵↵⇥When asked after practice if there was a risk of messing up team chemistry by playing 7-footers Bynum and Pau Gasol at the same time, Jackson replied: “I think without a doubt that Andrew would come off the bench and we would play him a little bit off the bench if there was any chance that he could come back and play again, but it’s such a remote thing. We’re not seriously thinking about it.”↵↵So there it is. No Gasol/Bynum/Odom Murderer’s Row this spring, at least not in any full-blown way. I’d yet to resent the Lakers’ current, overnight wealth the way I do the Celtics’; I’m guessing that’s because I pull for Kobe and don’t like Boston. But I just felt it. After a dominant weekend performance, in which Odom/Gasol looked like the missing link between the Suns and, well, being good, we’re reminded of the team’s setbacks. Sorry, no tears from over here.↵
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↵If the Lakers have to wait till next year to make a run with Bynum, I won’t feel they’ve been cheated by injury. If they win this year without him, you have to wonder: Will they be underdogs of sorts, or the least sympathetic team on earth, since that’s how stacked they are? Maybe get ready for the Bynum Theory, a revisionist history that says the team could’ve actually traded him all along, since they’d eventually get Gasol. Though I don’t think the Lakers would really take Kidd or Baron over Fisher and Farmar at this point.↵