Updated: January 15, 2013, 6:44 am ET

Bynum Hopes to be Back by All-Star Break

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

Opening night in Philadelphia could now be just a month away.

That is, opening night for the team the Sixers thought they had put together when they made the blockbuster deal for Andrew Bynum last summer.

But following a seemingly endless series of setbacks with injuries to both knees, Bynum at last said he now has his sights set on playing this season.

“I have no idea exactly, I just want to get back,” he said. “I think, I’m hoping around the All-Star break. That’s what I’m hoping.  I have no idea exactly when I’ll be back.”

Currently sitting at 16-22 and ninth in the Eastern Conference standings, it would be strictly fantasy to think Bynum could lift the Sixers into the playoffs and then make them a real force once they got there.

via Fran Blinebury of NBA.com

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