{"id":4709,"date":"2011-03-21T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:51:05","slug":"bynum-suspended-for-flagrant-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"Bynum Suspended  For Flagrant Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Lakers coach <strong>Phil Jackson<\/strong> has no idea how the NBA did the math that resulted in <strong>Andrew Bynum<\/strong> receiving a two-game suspension for his flagrant foul on Minnesota\u2019s <strong>Michael Beasley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson<\/strong> just knows the absence of the shotblocking center is a big negative in the middle of the two-time champions\u2019 defense.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bynum<\/strong>, who has little prior history of hard fouls, missed Sunday\u2019s game against Portland and will sit out Tuesday\u2019s meeting with Phoenix under the suspension announced Sunday morning by the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson<\/strong> said he agreed with the flagrant foul and <strong>Bynum\u2019s<\/strong> ejection last Friday, but thought the resulting penalty was \u201cexcessive.\u201d <strong>Bynum<\/strong> will lose roughly $250,000 during his suspension without pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Lakers coach Phil Jackson has no idea how the NBA did the math that resulted in Andrew Bynum receiving a two-game suspension for his flagrant foul on Minnesota\u2019s Michael Beasley. Jackson just knows the absence of the shotblocking center is a big negative in the middle of the two-time champions\u2019 defense. Bynum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}