<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - By the time Kwame Brown returns from a sprained left ankle in mid-March, the Lakers will have played for 2 1/2 months with Andrew Bynum as their starting center. With that in mind, Lakers coach Phil Jackson was asked Thursday if he was starting to accept that the 19-year-old Bynum might be his starting center for the remainder of the season and into the playoffs. "We've always been concerned about Andrew's amount of minutes," Jackson said. "We don't want to him to have to play heavy minutes right now at this age. He's a little bit young to be out there playing all those minutes. So far, we've gotten away with it this season." Bynum is averaging 29.2 minutes since he returned to the starting lineup after Brown was injured Dec. 31. But Jackson said it would be ideal for Bynum's "growth pattern" if he could split minutes at the position. "I'm almost positive he's still in the formation of his ultimate body type," Jackson said. "In that regard, there's always injuries and things that come along with that, so we want to be real careful." He also joked: "We've been playing without (Brown) for so long we forgot what it was like when he was playing. I mean, it's literally last year. We miss the idea of Kwame, but we don't miss him."</div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He also joked: "We've been playing without (Brown) for so long we forgot what it was like when he was playing. I mean, it's literally last year. We miss the idea of Kwame, but we don't miss him.</div> <font size=""6"">LOL!</font>
