NBA News

LA Lakers center Andrew Bynum has pushed back his knee surgery for July 28. He suffered a meniscus tear in his right knee during game 6 of the Playoffs against the Oklahoma City Thunder; he did miss a single Playoff game due to the injury. He has had the knee drained 3 times already, twice during the post season and once after the Lakers parade. Bynum says that he plan on working with the Lakers trainer after his surgery in LA and in Vancouver to get his core strength stronger so he can prevent more knee injuries in the near future.

Bynum has had a great season averaging 15 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. Unfortunately the 22 year-old has missed more than 90 games in the three seasons. Hopefully after this surgery and training he won't have anymore knee injuries any time soon in the future.

This week on twitter forward Matt Barnes tweeted that he will sign with the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors were trying to do a sign and trade with Magic to make things official, but unfortunately it did not happen due to the fact the Magic could not give the money that Barnes wanted so the whole deal flopped. Now Barnes is back on looking for another team and still in the running for Barnes are the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, LA Lakers, and of course still the Toronto Raptors.

Barnes is a good player but he is too busy looking for the money instead of the wins. I guess to him if he wins a Championship along the way, then that's a bonus to him as long as his money is right. Barnes need to really chill out and let his game make the contract with the teams; when you play good teams will give you the contract that you deserve.

**P.S. to all the people that may think I'm hating, I'm not. I love Matt Barnes and I think that he's a really good player and I would love to have him on my team.

Even though Matt Barnes will not be coming back to Orlando next season, Magic fans should not worry at all. The Orlando Magic has went out and resigned guard J.J. Redick and acquired free agent forward Quentin Richardson.

The Miami Heat has finally signed Juwan Howard; he becomes the 12th player that Miami Heat has under contract this season and the 6th new face on the team. Howard said he thrilled that he finally gets to play with the Heat. For people that don't know, in 1997, the Miami Heat and Howard agreed to a 7 yr/ $100 million contract but was voided by the NBA because the Heat went over their salary cap.

So right now the Heat's new roster looks like this so far with Juwan Howard, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem, Joel Anthony, Jamaal Magloire, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and rookie Dexter Pittman, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Mike Miller, Mario Chalmers, and James Jones. The next player that the Heat wants to get is guard Carlos Arroyo who started in 35 games for the Heat last season. I just hope that the Heat also sign rookie Da'sean Butler who the Heat drafted with the 42nd overall pick of the 2010 NBA Draft.