Bynum suffers small cartilage tear in knee
May 1st, 2010, 4:25 pm by JANIS CARR, OCREGISTER.COM EL SEGUNDO
Andrew Bynum is questionable for Sunday’s Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals because of a small tear in the anterior horn, or front part, of the lateral meniscus in
his right knee.
Bynum had been playing with a smaller, asymptomatic cartilage tear in that spot, but made it worse when he hyperextended knee Friday against Oklahoma City.
“There’s some issues,” Phil Jackson said Saturday. “He’s hoping to play if he’s asymptomatic tomorrow.”
Bynum was discovered to have with a “very small tear” in his right knee after the Lakers won the NBA title last June, but didn’t encounter any pain, according to Lakers
spokesman John Black.
“It was completely asymptomatic,” Black said. “He didn’t know he had it. It didn’t bother him. No symptoms whatsoever, but it showed up radiologically. He’s been playing
with that and just recently with the hyper-extension, it’s gone from a very small tear to a small tear.”
The Lakers open Western Conference semifinal play 12:30 p.m. Sunday against Utah at Staples Center.
