According to ESPN sources, Andrew Bynum to sign with Pacers

[action781]

I've read that Indiana is still under the luxury tax, but hoopshype has their total salary now at $71.4 mil (over the $70.3 threshold).

Can anybody explain this?

Staying under the threshold this season I imagine would be critical as they will likely be above it in years to come (when Paul George's extension kicks in) and would want to stay one year ahead of the repeater tax rates.

[wdleehi]

At this point, let's get back to discussion of the signing please.  The race tangent shouldn't have been brought up or discussed, as 1) it's off-topic and 2) it's kind of silly.

One more time.  Please get this back to Bynum, folks.

agreed -- there's always some fool willing to pay some lazy loser in the hopes that THIS time, that waste of space will make an effort to be productive.

Every GM should just turn their back on this clown and get him out of the league.  Plenty of other players that would bust their butts for a spot in the league.

Spoken like a true Celtics fan--word coming from Cleveland and from Philly (via Doug Collins) is that Bynum busted his ass in rehab trying to get healthy.

If that was the word out of Cleveland, why is Bynum out of Cleveland?

[LooseCannon]

I've read that Indiana is still under the luxury tax, but hoopshype has their total salary now at $71.4 mil (over the $70.3 threshold).

Can anybody explain this?

The luxury tax line is at $71.7m

[action781]

I've read that Indiana is still under the luxury tax, but hoopshype has their total salary now at $71.4 mil (over the $70.3 threshold).

Can anybody explain this?

The luxury tax line is at $71.7m

Ah, thanks!  70.3 was last season's.

[D.o.s.]

At this point, let's get back to discussion of the signing please.  The race tangent shouldn't have been brought up or discussed, as 1) it's off-topic and 2) it's kind of silly.

One more time.  Please get this back to Bynum, folks.

agreed -- there's always some fool willing to pay some lazy loser in the hopes that THIS time, that waste of space will make an effort to be productive.

Every GM should just turn their back on this clown and get him out of the league.  Plenty of other players that would bust their butts for a spot in the league.

Spoken like a true Celtics fan--word coming from Cleveland and from Philly (via Doug Collins) is that Bynum busted his ass in rehab trying to get healthy.

If that was the word out of Cleveland, why is Bynum out of Cleveland?

Presumably because he wasn't going to be reliably healthy enough to fill the role that Cleveland envisioned for him (starter on a playoff team).

[kozlodoev]

At this point, let's get back to discussion of the signing please.  The race tangent shouldn't have been brought up or discussed, as 1) it's off-topic and 2) it's kind of silly.

One more time.  Please get this back to Bynum, folks.

agreed -- there's always some fool willing to pay some lazy loser in the hopes that THIS time, that waste of space will make an effort to be productive.

Every GM should just turn their back on this clown and get him out of the league.  Plenty of other players that would bust their butts for a spot in the league.

Spoken like a true Celtics fan--word coming from Cleveland and from Philly (via Doug Collins) is that Bynum busted his ass in rehab trying to get healthy.

If that was the word out of Cleveland, why is Bynum out of Cleveland?

Presumably because he wasn't going to be reliably healthy enough to fill the role that Cleveland envisioned for him (starter on a playoff team).

The word out of Cleveland was that Bynum didn't care much about playing basketball, and that this was a red flag for managers trying to sign him last summer.

[Donoghus]

At this point, let's get back to discussion of the signing please.  The race tangent shouldn't have been brought up or discussed, as 1) it's off-topic and 2) it's kind of silly.

One more time.  Please get this back to Bynum, folks.

agreed -- there's always some fool willing to pay some lazy loser in the hopes that THIS time, that waste of space will make an effort to be productive.

Every GM should just turn their back on this clown and get him out of the league.  Plenty of other players that would bust their butts for a spot in the league.

Spoken like a true Celtics fan--word coming from Cleveland and from Philly (via Doug Collins) is that Bynum busted his ass in rehab trying to get healthy.

If that was the word out of Cleveland, why is Bynum out of Cleveland?

Presumably because he wasn't going to be reliably healthy enough to fill the role that Cleveland envisioned for him (starter on a playoff team).

The word out of Cleveland was that Bynum didn't care much about playing basketball, and that this was a red flag for managers trying to sign him last summer.

There were also rumors of a major off-court issue of a nature that is off-limits here.

[D.o.s.]

One does not render the other invalid, and he's been trying to take care of himself since his tenure with the Lakers.

http://lakernation.com/bynum-to-pass-on-usa-basketball-minicamp-to-rehab-knee-get-healthy/

http://www.fearthesword.com/2013/8/18/4633474/andrew-bynum-working-hard-in-cleveland-and-is-going-to-be-ready

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/398776-andrew-bynum-working-hard-but-not-close-to-being-ready

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2013/09/cleveland_cavaliers_center_and_1.html

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/9/18/4744448/andrew-bynum-injury-update-cavaliers-training-camp

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/deep-sixer/Cavs-optimistic-with-Bynum-experiment-.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pattisonave/Doug-Collins-joins-ESPN-says-Sixers-swung-for-fences-with-Bynum-.html

http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2013/02/28/collins-philadephia-story-not-turning-out-as-planned/


Just because you're a twenty-five year old that likes to get ripped and blast loud music doesn't mean you're not dedicated to doing your job.

But, you know, whatever helps you sleep at night.

[alley oop]

Here's video of what Larry Bird had to say about the signing:

http://www.nba.com/pacers/video/2014/02/01/BirdBynum140201f4v-3131511

[Enzzo]

Honestly if Bynum stays focused and really puts effort into his game, he's a beast. As long as his knees don't go out on him.

The problem with Bynum, at least in my opinion, is he never really cared about how well he played. He just seemed to stop caring all together. I remember he got injured one year in the offseason.. bowling....

I wish the best for him there, and if he plays how a professional athlete should, the Pacers are going to be even more deadly than they currently are.

[kozlodoev]

The problem with Bynum, at least in my opinion, is he never really cared about how well he played. He just seemed to stop caring all together. I remember he got injured one year in the offseason.. bowling....

To be precise, he reinjured himself bowling while supposedly recovering from surgery.

[More Banners]

The problem with Bynum, at least in my opinion, is he never really cared about how well he played. He just seemed to stop caring all together. I remember he got injured one year in the offseason.. bowling....

To be precise, he reinjured himself bowling while supposedly recovering from surgery.

Prediction:  Bynum signs with us next year so he can bowl with Rondo.

[D.o.s.]

The problem with Bynum, at least in my opinion, is he never really cared about how well he played. He just seemed to stop caring all together. I remember he got injured one year in the offseason.. bowling....

To be precise, he reinjured himself bowling while supposedly recovering from surgery.

Prediction:  Bynum signs with us next year so he can bowl with Rondo.

[Celtics4ever]

Prediction:  Bynum signs with us next year so he can bowl with Rondo.

I hope not, dude has no heart and did CLE dirty what makes you think we can suddenly trust him?

[barefacedmonk]

“He’s really not a disruptive guy. He just wants to be left alone and left alone to play the game, plain and simple.”

Ham also described Bynum as “an intelligent guy,” who’s into Formula One racing and creating radical workout regiments.

“He has these ideas about some new ways of training. Some stuff he threw at me,” Ham said. “We had an opportunity to talk this summer and he just blew me away, man, just the level on which he thinks.”

Pritchard said that during the Friday night dinner – which included team president Larry Bird and coach Frank Vogel — Bynum made quite the pitch to join the Eastern Conference-leading Pacers.

“He made it perfectly clear,” Pritchard said during the radio interview. “He was like, ‘Look, I want to win a championship, I think I can really help you, and I want to fit in. I’m not coming here to let everybody fit in with me. I got to fit in with everybody else.’

“When he said that I think the thing changed.”

Link