March 22nd, 2010 
Matt Loede 
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The injury bug has hit the Lakers once again, as they will likely miss center Andrew Bynum for at least two weeks with a left Achilles’ tendon injury. The tendon isn’t torn, but he’ll miss a couple weeks as the defending champs ready themselves for a playoff run.
Coach Phil Jackson said Sunday he can’t predict a timetable for the return of their starting center, who strained his tendon early in the third quarter of the defending NBA champions’ win over Minnesota on Friday night. “We really have nothing definitive about it,” Jackson said. “We really don’t know how this therapy is going to come out. The best thing I heard today is that he felt better from Day One to Day Two.”
An MRI on Saturday showed the injury wasn’t as serious as the Lakers initially feared, revealing no tears in Bynum’s heel. Yet Jackson acknowledged Bynum’s lost conditioning and the Lakers’ overall cautiousness with their oft-injured center could keep him out until shortly before the playoffs in mid-April.
“An Achilles’ or a leg injury is something you can’t really stay in great shape with,” Jackson said. “Taking off and landing, all your power moves, are something you’re going to have to adjust.”
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