Over the weekend on Saturday, February 3rd the Indiana Pacers signed Andrew Bynum to a one year contract worth 1 million dollars. This will keep the large center on the Pacers roster for the remainder of the season. Bynum will join the the Pacers next week and will likely back-up the all-star center Roy Hibbert along with Ian Mahinmi. If Bynum stays healthy and is able to contribute as a bench player the Pacers will easily have the deepest bench as far as the center position goes. Acquiring Bynum also kept him from going to conference rival Miami who was hoping to add another big-man to the spot they are most clearly lacking. The Heat could have outbid the Pacers for Bynum because they had all of
their mid-level exception of $3 million to spend. However, the Heat
currently have a full roster of 15 players and a luxury-tax bill of $15
million, meaning creating room for and signing Bynum would have been
expensive. I believe that Andrew Bynum will be very successful in Indiana if he can stay healthy, he will over a fresh body to come in to clog up the paint. Also buzzing in everyone's ear right now is the Eastern Conference All-star roster and back-ups was issued and left out was Indiana Pacer shooting guard Lance Stephenson. Lance is averaging a career high in points per game at 14.3 and has the most triple doubles in the Eastern Conference. He is also passing the ball and rebounding very well. All these credentials go along with his determined and hard-nose defense that he play. Obviously there was many people that felt he got cheated out of the game in New Orleans. This is what Lance had to say on the fact
"I'm mad. I feel like I had my breakout year last year," Stephenson
told reporters after practice Friday, according to The Indianapolis
Star. "I showed I can play with anyone on the floor and I felt like this
year, I brought a little bit more to my game.
"But other people saw it differently. I'm just going to keep working hard and prove everyone wrong."
I feel like he defiantly should be playing in New Orleans but America must not.
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