Andrew Bynum Day-to-Day With Foot Injury

Despite a league-best record of 12-1, all is not well in Laker-land. That's because the team received troubling news of a foot injury sustained by Andrew Bynum during the team's Tuesday night win over the New Jersey Nets.

An MRI and a CT scan revealed that a bone spur had chipped off, causing "pain and inflammation." (Well, yeah, I would think so.) Bynum is listed as questionable for tonight's game against the Dallas Mavericks, and the team is expected to update his status before tip-off.

As well as the Lakers have been playing, and with their desire to improve defensively over the course of the season so they can have a shot at a championship, this is obviously an injury they could do without. Bynum is second on the team in rebounding (almost nine per game), and leads the team in blocked shots at 2.4 per game. Without him on the floor patrolling the paint, the team is left with a roster that features basically the same group that played the Celtics in last season's Finals. And we all saw how that turned out.