{"id":696882,"date":"2010-03-20T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2010-03-20T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:34:25","slug":"mri-confirms-bynum%e2%80%99s-strained-not-torn-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696882","title":{"rendered":"MRI Confirms Bynum\u2019s Strained, Not Torn, Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/jm.jsp?ref=lakers_uclahealth&#038;dest=http:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/injuryreport_ucla.jpg?w=780\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>An MRI taken Saturday morning confirmed that Andrew Bynum suffered a strained Achilles tendon during the third quarter of L.A.&#8217;s Friday night win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that there is no tear or rupture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a torn Achilles,&#8221; said Phil Jackson on Saturday. &#8220;We just hope that the time is not extended. He&#8217;s a very optimistic young man, so (his reaction) wasn&#8217;t that bad. I was pleased with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bynum will be reevaluated in a week, and will not play until that time, meaning that the young center will definitely miss Sunday&#8217;s game against Washington, and road games at San Antonio (Wednesday) and Oklahoma City (Friday) and most likely Houston (Saturday). <\/p>\n<p>L.A. then plays in New Orleans on Monday, March 29, and in Atlanta on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson said that Lamar Odom would start in Bynum&#8217;s place, moving Pau Gasol over to the center position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MRI taken Saturday morning confirmed that Andrew Bynum suffered a strained Achilles tendon during the third quarter of L.A.&#8217;s Friday night win over Minnesota. The good news is that there is no tear or rupture. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a torn Achilles,&#8221; said Phil Jackson on Saturday. &#8220;We just hope that the time is not extended. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vi2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}