NBA – Lakers win but have concerns over Bynum knee injury [video]

LOS ANGELES (NBA) - The Los Angeles Lakers won for the first time in six games with a 102-93 home triumph over San Antonio on Tuesday night but lost center Andrew Bynum to a knee injury.
 
Bynum got hurt and walked slowly off the court with a hyperextended right knee.
 
Then Lakers should know more about the severity of the injury on Wednesday.
 
"There's always concern," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.
 
"We've seen him go down a couple of times that have been debilitating, so there's a concern.
 
"It was kind of a freaky play, but they usually are, and that's what basketball is."
 
Bynum, who missed the first 24 games of the campaign following off-season knee surgery, has averaged a couple of blocks while pouring in 11.3 points and corralling 9.4 rebounds per game.
 
Spain's Pau Gasol had 17 points, 17 rebounds and five assists for LA, who moved back into second place ahead of Dallas and behind San Antonio in the Western Conference, though both the Lakers and the Mavs have 56-25 records.
 
The side that finishes third - either the Lakers or Mavericks - will take on Portland in the play-offs.
 
The Trail Blazers locked up the sixth seed in the West with a 102-89 home triumph over Memphis.
 
LaMarcus Aldridge scored 22 points and 11 rebounds and Spain's Rudy Fernandez came off the bench and contributed 18 points after burying four of five shots from the arc for Portland (48-33).
 
France's Nicolas Batum also had 16 points and five boards for the Blazers.
 
The Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, Pau's younger brother, had 11 points and 10 rebounds in defeat.
 
Tuesday night's other game saw the Chicago Bulls roll to a 103-90 win at Madison Square Garden against New York.
 
Great Britain international Luol Deng paced the Bulls with 23 points and 10 boards.
 
Carlos Boozer had 22 rebounds to go with 14 points for Chicago while Bulls playmaker Derrick Rose scored a game-high 26 points.

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