{"id":6615,"date":"2011-05-12T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2011-05-12T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:37:04","slug":"bynum-banned-5-games-fined-for-barea-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6615","title":{"rendered":"Bynum Banned  5 Games, Fined For Barea Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. &#8212; Lakers center<strong> Andrew Bynum<\/strong> has been suspended for the first five games of next season for his flagrant foul on Dallas guard <strong>J.J. Barea<\/strong> in Los Angeles&#8217; final playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced the suspension Tuesday, two days after Bynum was ejected for the foul in the two-time defending champions&#8217; 36-point loss to the Mavericks in Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA also fined<strong> Bynum<\/strong> $25,000 for &#8220;removing his jersey and the manner in which he left the court.&#8221; The infraction will cost him $702,272 overall, including the fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bynum<\/strong> expressed remorse for his actions Tuesday, saying his actions were terrible and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My actions &#8230; don&#8217;t represent me, my upbringing, this franchise or any of the Laker fans out there that want to watch us and want us to succeed,&#8221; <strong>Bynum<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, and more importantly, I want to actually apologize to <strong>J.J. Barea<\/strong> for doing that. I&#8217;m just glad that he wasn&#8217;t seriously injured in the event and all I can say is, I&#8217;ve looked at [the replay], it&#8217;s terrible and it definitely won&#8217;t be happening again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Barkley<\/strong> stated the suspension is outrageous. \u201cThey y should have suspended him 2 games at the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. &#8212; Lakers center Andrew Bynum has been suspended for the first five games of next season for his flagrant foul on Dallas guard J.J. Barea in Los Angeles&#8217; final playoff game. The NBA announced the suspension Tuesday, two days after Bynum was ejected for the foul in the two-time defending champions&#8217; 36-point [&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-6615","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\/6615","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=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}