Lakers fans, thank Kwame Brown...

...because he's the reason Andrew Bynum is coming into his own. Just ask him.

"That was my young fella," Brown bragged of Bynum. "I taught him everything he knows. ... I'm one of the better defenders in the league and we played against each other every day in practice. I told him if you can score against me, you can score on anyone."

That's a joke, right? Apparently not.

When asked if this could possibly be true, Bynum admitted being buddies with Brown, but claimed they mostly would "talk about cars" and go bowling.

As always, confidence is an important ingredient for success in professional sports and since confidence has supposedly been a problem for Kwame Brown over the years, it's not necessarily a bad thing for him to think highly of himself. Still...when you have an NBA resume that is, shall we say, a little bare, quiet confidence might be the way to go. That's not to say Kwame didn't help Bynum at all - I guess we can't say that for sure - but there are others who surely have to share in that credit including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Phil Jackson and most all, Bynum himself. He has put in the hard work after all and it probably wasn't just because he once had to face Kwame Brown in practice.

Kwame Brown is so bad that if he played one on one with himself he would lose.
ThaChosenChild 3 weeks ago

Give him a little credit; he was able to stop Shaq in this play:

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Some might say he just happened to be in the right position to prevent the basket with a foul, but little do they realise it was planned all along by one of the best defensive players in the league.

Technically Kwame was the main piece of the trade from the Lakers side that brought Pau Gasol to the Lakers. One more thing to thank Kwame Brown for.

I think that may be a troll by Kwame.

If Kwame didn't have a woman's hands, he'd be just as good as Bynum.

Well to his credit, Kwame is one of the better POST defenders in the league but to say that he taught EVERYTHING to Bynum is just mind-boggling!

Yeah, it's not like Bynum worked with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or anything.

Technically Kwame was the main piece of the trade from the Lakers side that brought Pau Gasol to the Lakers. One more thing to thank Kwame Brown for.

Indeed, he netted them two championships and didn't stick around to collect any rings for himself. Now that's selflessness and sacrificing for your team.