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NBA titles: 2
NBA seasons: 8
Championship proportion: 25.0 p.c
It’s unlucky that accidents ended one-time All-Star Andrew Bynum’s profession early, as the large man had glorious measurement and power, in addition to incredible ending capacity across the basket. Bynum was an necessary a part of the Lakers’ repeat in ’09 and ’10, as his rim-protection and rebounding helped Los Angeles kind a troublesome frontcourt duo with him and Pau Gasol.
Resulting from accidents, Bynum solely performed in 418 regular-season video games. Compared, he made 74 playoff appearances in his profession. We predict that if we ever did analysis on the gamers with the best ratio of profession NBA playoff appearances vs. regular-season appearances, Bynum would truly fare fairly nicely in that one, too.
As well as, Bynum might have extra Finals and playoff appearances, and perhaps even one other ring, had he not harm his knee through the 2007-08 common season, which compelled him to overlook the second half of the marketing campaign and the complete playoffs. That 12 months, the Lakers obtained to the Finals however misplaced to Boston in six video games, partly resulting from their lack of measurement down low.
Bynum was having a superb season when he obtained harm, so the 7-footer might have helped change the Lakers’ fortunes within the ’08 Finals. That will have given Bynum a 37.5 p.c championship win charge, which might have put him Prime 8 within the record, and given Bryant six rings, the identical quantity as Jordan.
