"His conscience is paralyzed. His sense of entitlement is blinding.

So, no, actually, I wasn't surprised to see this week's photos of Andrew Bynum leaving his convertible sitting across two handicapped parking spaces while he shopped at an upscale grocery store in Westchester.

If there's one Laker who suffers from a disability of maturity, it's him.

The sight of this strong, able-bodied basketball star exploiting a benefit belonging to the physically challenged would have been only sad, if it weren't also so expected. The photos, unveiled in an NBC4 investigation, did not result in a ticket because there were no parking cops around. However, this was the latest in a string of incidents that have left the big man looking small.

A couple of months ago, Times columnist T.J. Simers stopped fawning over Bynum long enough to write about an emailed photo from a reader who claimed the image was of Bynum's sports car parked in a handicapped spot at a Playa del Rey bank.

A few weeks before that, Bynum ended the postseason with a disgraceful clothesline cheap shot of Dallas' Jose Barea, knocking the guard to the court in a heap. Bynum was ejected from the game, but not before he tore off his shirt in a crude gesture of retribution, stalking away half-dressed while appearing half-crazy.

The Lakers had a meeting with him after that incident. They reportedly had another meeting with him earlier in the year about other questionable community behavior.

This is a guy who blew off knee surgery last summer to travel to South Africa, forcing the Lakers to start the season without him, causing Pau Gasol to be overworked perhaps to a point of playoff exhaustion."