In the 2005 NBA Draft, the Lakers held the tenth pick and selected the youngest player in the draft at that time
Andrew Bynum
At that time, they thought they had chosen the inside version of Kobe.
He is as young as Bryant when he first entered the league, and has the top physical qualities in NBA history, with a height of 2.13 meters (actually close to 2 meters 2, it is said), and a weight of 129 kilograms (huge and avid to fight).
In addition to these, he also has good movement, maneuvering, and free throws.
On the offensive end, he is familiar with all the scoring skills of the back basket and the face frame;
Defensively, he has top-notch rebounding ability and a sense of smell for blocks.
Some say he's little Chamberlain, others say he's a little shark, a little sky hook.
And he doesn't want anything, he just wants to stand on the pitch and destroy everything.
At that time, there was a saying on the pitch: Bynum is all top below the neck, and the emotions above the neck are only known to God.
To put it more clearly, he is like a machine built for basketball, a machine that needs to be controlled by the top drivers.
And this driver is Kobe Bryant.
In those years, Bryant spurred all of his teammates on with an almost paranoid mood, and Bynum grew rapidly during this time.
In his rookie season, he averaged only 1.6+1.7 per game, and in three years he was already a lakers' two-time starting center and a tough man who could play howard hard steel in the Finals.
In the 2011-12 season, he averaged 18.7 points, 11.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.9 blocks per game, of which seven statistics such as playing time, number of shots, number of shots, points, rebounds, and efficiency points were the highest in his career.
Against Duncan, he scored 30 rebounds in a single game, played the Nuggets in the playoffs, cut a block triple-double, and equaled the NBA's all-time playoff single-game block record.
That year, almost everyone thought he could really grow into a historical-level insider.
It was also that year that he was used as a bargaining chip in exchange for Warcraft, and the four teams were traded, and Bynum was sent to Philadelphia.
Since then, his career has suddenly taken a precipice.
Successive injuries have made it difficult for Bynum to return to the peak of the Lakers.
Some people say that after he left the Lakers, without Kobe's discipline, he let go of himself.
The answer, no one knows, we only know that he only played 26 games after leaving the Lakers, and then he hastily retired.
Maybe you don't believe it? He retired seven years ago, and now he's only 34 years old.