<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">EL SEGUNDO -- By his own estimation, Andrew Bynum played only 25 games of high school basketball before the Lakers took him with the No. 10 pick in last month's NBA Draft, leaving him with one of the smallest bodies of work for a lottery pick in league history. The mystery that is Bynum will start to be revealed tonight, with the 17-year-old center set to make his debut as the Lakers open their summer league season with a game against the Memphis Grizzlies at the Pyramid in Long Beach. Bynum spent part of Thursday's practice working on his footwork in the triangle offense with coaches Kurt Rambis and Brian Shaw, then was asked how he viewed the upcoming eight-game summer league season. "A chance to prove what I can do because nobody believes in me," Bynum said. "I give them the right because they haven't seen me. I've only played in 25 high school games. But hopefully, I'll prove myself." Bynum played so few games in high school because he had to sit out the first half of his junior season due to transfer rules and was sidelined the opening 10 games of his senior season after suffering a bruised kneecap. The summer league season will give Bynum his first chance to build a relationship with Rambis, the coach who will work most closely with Bynum in the coming years. Rambis has committed to joining Phil Jackson's staff as an assistant along with Frank Hamblen. With Jackson returning from his Montana home to be in attendance tonight, Rambis was asked Thursday what were reasonable expectations for Bynum in his first game. "I'm sure he's going to be extremely nervous out there," Rambis said, "and probably in all likelihood, judging from what's happened with players in the past, he's probably going to get in foul trouble, so he's going to get frustrated with that. "But we're just going to continue to work with him, make sure that he does the things that we want him to do. He's going to make an awful lot of mistakes before he has successes but that's just part of the learning process."</div> Source
