Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 9:00 am  |  50 responses

Andrew Bynum’s Idea of Rehab: Playmates!

by Marcel Mutoni

Now, before any of you get too emotional about a player whooping it up at The Mansion during his rehab from a serious knee injury, as his team’s title hopes hinge on the outcome of said rehab, do know this: Andrew Bynum is reportedly closer to returning than previously thought.

Ok, with that out of the way, we discuss the important stuff: Such as Bynum apparently testing the knee’s strength by carrying a Playmate on his shoulders. SI.com has the details:

While the Lakers were in Atlanta preparing for what would be an 86-76 loss to the Hawks on Sunday, Bynum was in Los Angeles mingling at a pajamas and lingerie party after the Playboy Golf Finals. Wearing a green smoking jacket and slippers, Bynum, whose injury status is generating daily headlines in Los Angeles, partied like a rock star near the infamous grotto.

He picked up Playmate Nicole Narain and placed her on his shoulders and got somebody to take a picture with his digital camera. Upper-body strength, check. He hopped over a velvet rope near the DJ booth so he could take a picture with Narain and other Playmates who ended up sitting on his lap. Jumping ability, check.

He sidestepped a few of the roaming cameras and got down with some Playmates on the checkered dance floor set up in the backyard. Lateral movement, check. Later, with lines around the bar getting longer, he pulled out a bottled beverage from one pocket and four plastic cups from another and offered up drinks to three Playmates who were with him. Ability to adjust to game situations, check.

Though he probably should be keeping a lower profile as he works to get back on the court before the Playoffs, it’s important to remember that the man is just 21 years old, and as such, will no doubt engage in questionable behavior from time to time.

Here’s to hoping he and the rest of the squad can get back to The Mansion in a couple of months for an even bigger celebration.

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  • Hisham Posted: Mar.31 at 9:09 am
    Stop sucking Laker d*ck. Somebody edit out that last sentence

  • clos1881 Posted: Mar.31 at 9:10 am
    Sounds like fun what do people want him to do stay in the house 24 7

  • e-cash Posted: Mar.31 at 9:11 am
    nice move young fella!

  • Mendel Posted: Mar.31 at 9:16 am
    Thata boy. The article does not detail if he can score or not.

  • The Kandi Raver Posted: Mar.31 at 9:21 am
    Sounds a lot like patrick ewing and gold club… Did he score?

  • TADOne Posted: Mar.31 at 9:22 am
    Colin Farrel is a lucky man.

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Mar.31 at 9:27 am
    Whenever you’re looking for breaking news from the Playboy Mansion, former Slam freelancer Arash Markazi is your man.
    And yeah, way to keep it neutral Mutoni. This from a guy who’s country is about to give its military a month off. Dude, the Pacers could invade your country next week and take that sh*t over. Don’t test us.

  • Marcel Mutoni Posted: Mar.31 at 9:33 am
    i’m proudly biased. and fox talking heads ftw!

  • jay Posted: Mar.31 at 9:35 am
    I don’t like Bynum. Tossing up Cash like a big willy on his bday. What a fool. Do you know how much that money is needed in Africa? And you’re tossing it up like it ain’t nuthin to you? Yo loser, give something to the needy. F- you!

  • Cizzo Posted: Mar.31 at 9:43 am
    Go Bynum Go live your life youngster!

  • Z Posted: Mar.31 at 9:57 am
    Being biased when writing a column can be fun and really entertaining. You can feel that the writer is FEELING what he’s writing even though you don’t care for the team he is rooting for like Bill Simmons and all things New England. However, when gathering news from different sources…

  • Sesa Posted: Mar.31 at 10:01 am
    So…
    There’s no detail about his knee strength in a bedroom action

  • BoomTownBiloxi Posted: Mar.31 at 10:06 am
    lol Sesa

  • Darksaber Posted: Mar.31 at 10:12 am
    nicole narain is still categorized as a “playmate”? After her , ahem, performance with Colin on that tape? Guess Hugh’s blabbering about playboy being a serious, publication with high standards no longer has merit? Hey, did Andrew see Vincent Chase and his boys at the party?

  • floe Posted: Mar.31 at 10:22 am
    Breaking news. Apparently Greg Gutfeld’s screen name is Ryan Jones.

  • Apollo Posted: Mar.31 at 11:11 am
    Breaking news. Apparently Tom Green’s screen name is Marcel Mutoni. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYqdz1lmTE check it.

  • B. Long Posted: Mar.31 at 11:42 am
    Well, I always played better after a two-fer but during rehab? Oh Andrew.

  • jbn74sb Posted: Mar.31 at 12:13 pm
    I partied at the mansion a couple of summers ago. Let me just say this: the idea of it was much better than the experience itself, and the girls look much better on paper than they do in person.

  • vtrobot Posted: Mar.31 at 12:21 pm
    give me a 70′s mansion party any day of the week instead. that whole “institution” is really whack now. nobody should be supporting what playboy and hef promote as beauty today. white- haired/silicone idiots. give me those late 70′s early 80′s ladies with the fine, real bodies. this girls next door ish is HORRIBLE. hef, as lucky as you are, i feel bad for you now. did pauly shore hit on andrew?

  • Jacob Posted: Mar.31 at 12:23 pm
    GO ANDREW!!!! While other athletes are rehabbing their injuries, Andrew Bynum slaps them in the face and says SCREW THAT IMA PARTY AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION!!!!

  • ciolkstar Posted: Mar.31 at 12:31 pm
    To me, the worst thing about about Bynum is that he’s always wearing that Ed Hardy garbage.

  • jbn74sb Posted: Mar.31 at 12:38 pm
    Dude – he’s from Jersey. Did you expect him to have style?

  • Static Posted: Mar.31 at 12:50 pm
    Sounds like Drew wants to be Rodman – Ed Hardy’d out, party w/ playmates, screw off while you play for LA…except not as athletic, not on Phil’s love list, and will never be called to be Donald’s apprentice for his unwise use of money

  • Gerard Himself Posted: Mar.31 at 12:55 pm
    What will Phil Jackson have to say about this?

  • Buddy Christ Posted: Mar.31 at 2:47 pm
    Well if your gonna engage in questionable behavior, what better place to do it than the play boy mansion?

  • MetalMike Posted: Mar.31 at 2:57 pm
    live your life, andrew bynum! I’d be concerned if he was at the mansion at a time he was supposed to doing rehab on the knee – that I’d have a problem with. But there is 24 hrs in a day, if he spends 3-4 hrs rehab and a couple hours one day at the Hef estate, so what? Yes, it does look bad when his teammates are on a long roadtrip, losing a game no less. But if Andrew is doing what he supposed to be doing to the leg, and comes back fresh and helps the Lakers get by in the playoffs it will be all-good, long-forgotten ‘news’…

  • BostonBaller Posted: Mar.31 at 3:40 pm
    Let the young fella have his fun albeit as dumb as it was. If he actually put a model on his neck (while standing up) and walked around then he is not just young but dumb. He could have popped his knee out. Drinking, dancing, hopping ropes? hhhmmmmm, if it were Shaq, KG, etc etc it would be big news and they would be getting killed. LOL
    The pic of him on ESPN was hilarious…

  • Z Posted: Mar.31 at 3:42 pm
    No matter the real impact of the partying on his knee, it looks bad. That’s not a professional attitude, he’ll prolly hear about it from Jackson, Kobe or Fisher. Let’s not kid ourselves, the Lakers need him to win it all. LO can’t sustain a high level of play, it’s like he gets scared of own his abilities (like the 15 points – 10 rebs 3rd quarter in CLE). It’s too much for him, he can’t handle it.

  • SLAM ONLINE | Posted: Mar.31 at 3:47 pm
    [...] Bynum Partying at Playboy [...]

  • madamerica Posted: Mar.31 at 4:08 pm
    Dude looks like Tracy Jordan in that picture.

  • donlaker Posted: Mar.31 at 4:15 pm
    throw them hoes , or is that throw them pros
    or like gerald wallace would say drew throw them bows(elbows) get on up, get involved, get into it
    james brown / bobby byrd circa 1971

  • Jonesy McFly Posted: Mar.31 at 4:16 pm
    Who the hell is Tracey Jordan??? Maybe Tracey Morgan

  • Anton Posted: Mar.31 at 4:18 pm
    Bynum’s a bag of douche.
    Z: I’m sure Kob is the authority on moral issues.

  • donlaker Posted: Mar.31 at 4:30 pm
    hey anton michael jordon was way ahead of kobe in moral authority…gambling, cheating on his wife, picking kwame brown for his hands….
    nuff said

  • Anton Posted: Mar.31 at 4:41 pm
    Typical Laker man groupie: username followed by team, bringing up Mike in everything Kobe related, spelling Jordan’s name wrong, making no cohesive argument.
    You need kneepads or did you bring your own?

  • Cheryl Posted: Mar.31 at 4:48 pm
    I ain’t mad at dude. I guess he got it like that. There was an article in SI about Lamar and he was talking about the “L.A. lifestyle” as “going home and putting my feet in the sand.” I guess young Andrew has other ideas.

  • bulldog Posted: Mar.31 at 5:31 pm
    Lay off the young man – The Playmates were all part of his rehab- he needed a silicone injection. It is curious, though how he manages to blow out a knee while flossing his teeth but here he is doing cartwheels at the Playboy mansion and juggling bunnies like Ringling Bros 3 ring circus act. Next stop, trip a kid at the special Olympics.

  • Andrew Bynum Playboy Mansion » RightFielders Women in Sports Posted: Mar.31 at 5:53 pm
    [...] dunno, his lack of respect to his teammates can be chalked up to his young age…he is only 21, and of course will dally in shenanigans here and there. Given the negative [...]

  • Kozmic Posted: Mar.31 at 6:07 pm
    Live your life Bynum. You lucky son of a …

  • L33tSauce Posted: Mar.31 at 7:49 pm
    Bynum only did what we all wish we could. Lucky punk… Were I a Lakers fan, I’d be proud. lmao

  • ole dirty marmot Posted: Mar.31 at 9:47 pm
    Hey,if you can post up a b%tch you can post up Chris Bosh!

  • Dwayne Charleston Posted: Mar.31 at 10:37 pm
    That’s my man, bynum. Way to be!

  • CP34MVP Posted: Mar.31 at 11:44 pm
    I Love PTI’s Response On This.

  • RedRum Posted: Apr.1 at 9:17 am
    he is 21 and can have questionable behaviour from time to time??? What bullcrap is that??? that type of journalism makes the players feel like they can do whatever they want. Just a reminder, tim Duncan was around that age when he was leading the Spurs to a title…

  • ClydeSays Posted: Apr.1 at 12:56 pm
    I’d be all over the Mansion if I were in Bynum’s shoes? Is it questionable? No idea. Who cares?

  • 24hRx Posted: Apr.1 at 4:41 pm
    sounds fun to me.

  • 24hRx Posted: Apr.1 at 4:55 pm
    i think people often underestimate the healing powers of playmates…

  • rob Posted: Apr.1 at 8:31 pm
    arash markazi sux laker d***

  • T Money Posted: Apr.2 at 5:34 am
    I hope he scrubbed his neck thoroughly.

  • 14 rings and counting Posted: Apr.2 at 1:24 pm
    Jay your an idiot. How much money have you dontated to africa lately? Every little bit helps. Give me a break. These athletes do more for the community than either you or i could ever accomplish. They open up foundations for cancer research, aids research, to help feed and shelter the homeless, to help fight drug addiction, ms, autism, special needs and countless other causes and for you to judge these people is pathetic.
    And besides who are you to tell him how to spend his money? Your a nobody. If he wants to spend money on stippers or comic books its none of your business. Thats the beauty of this country, we can spend our hard earned money on what ever we want. So shut up and actually make a difference your self before telling him what to do, loser.
    One more thing……. Bynums the man, baby. Go Lakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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