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Many of you basketball fans saw the NBA playoff battle between the L.A. Lakers and the OKC Thunder. Of course you know OKC is our Seattle Sonics. The Sonics left here in Seattle in 2008. As a sports fan I will NEVER get over the day our NBA left our city. The 13th or 14th largest radio and TV market to the 45th or so market.

But I will say this. The Thunder fans really support their hometown team. They really do. But having that, we here in Seattle supported our Sonics too. FOR 41 YEARS!!!! Hopefully we can get a new arena build and get another NBA team back to where it belongs!!

Anyway as a NBA fan I watch the very talented Andrew Bynum and shake my head. I am trying to figure out the young fella. I say to myself  Bynum can be one of the best players in the NBA. But the young fella mind wonders when he is not getting the ball and his mind wonders off to dinner after the game or being with his lady or something.

You can say that you can understand where Andrew is coming from because I watched time and time again the big fella work hard to get postion down in the low post only to have Kobe Bryant toss up a forced shot from 22 ft.

When that happens over and over to Bynum he stops working hard for position and just stands around watching Kobe do his thing.  He does not try to rebound. He just becomes another big body on the court. It is a huge problem for the Lakers now that they have been put out of the playoffs in the second round two years in row after winning the title two years in a row.

So this is a problem that has Laker fans thinking what should the Lakers do with Andrew. Should they trade him and Pau Gasol and go after Dwight Howard this summer? Should they keep Bynum and trade Gasol? What should L.A. do in the N.B.A. off season? Well we will see soon. In the meantime I think Bynum should come up to Seattle and hang out with NBA legend Bill Russell who stays in our area and get some knowledge from Mr. Russell about life. And also work with and talk with the leading scorer in the history of the NBA, another legendary big man Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

I think it will help the big fella who is only 24 years old. I hope he will do that.   Gordon Curvey