Andrew Bynum Trade Was Due To ‘Excessive Shooting’ In Cavaliers Practice, Reports Revealed; Is He A Great Pick Up For Pacers?

Andrew Bynum will never have time to rest, at least from the bashing of the media. The troubled former Los Angeles Lakers star has already signed with the Indiana Pacers after getting kicked out of the Cleveland Cavaliers lineup. However, after one week, he was haunted back by the mistakes he did with the Ohio-based team.

According to a report by Adrian Wojnarowski of NBA Yahoo, Bynum was suspended by the Cavs for shooting too much, at practice.

"Only Bynum never made it to the early January guarantee date for his full $12.5 million salary in 2013-14, and self-destructed. He stopped trying on the floor, and became a disruptive presence in practices. Before Bynum was thrown out of his final practice and suspended, he was shooting the ball every time he touched it in a practice scrimmage, sources said - from whatever remote part of the court he had caught the ball," Wojnarowski wrote on Wednesday.

Bynum committed with the league leading Indiana Pacers at the start of the this month, a move which basketball pundits say is good for his career but could be dangerous for his new club.

"It really wasn't a hard decision, I think it's the right fit for me and, in all honesty, I think we've got the best chance of winning. It will be great to back up Roy and I'll do whatever I can to help this team," he said insisting that it is him who will adjust for the whole team and not the other way around.

Before completing the deal with Pacers, Brian Shaw, Bynum's coach at Lakers and now working for the Denver Nuggets, revealed that he received a call from Indian coach Frank Vogel asking him about the 2012 All-Star.

"When Andrew is healthy, first and foremost, which he hasn't been most of his career - but when he is healthy, he'll be able to help this team out a lot because he's a load out there on the floor," Shaw told Scott Agness of Pacers.com

"I think it's a great pickup for the Pacers, in that I know what he is capable of. He was a big part of the two championships we won in '09 and 2010, and it's a situation where if he's able to get healthy and get out there, he'll help the team. If it doesn't, they don't lose anything by trying to bring him along."

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