Lawsuit claims Andrew Bynum is 'terrible' neighbor in L.A.

Rachel Shuster, USA TODAY Sports | USATODAY

Center Andrew Bynum, still idled by rehabilitation after knee surgery and yet to play for the Philadelphia 76ers, can't escape headlines from his time in Los Angeles as a Laker.

Documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by USA TODAY Sports show Bynum has sued, and is being countersued by two neighbors, for his behavior as a home owner in the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester.

Bynum filed suit first, on June 1, claiming he was "harassed" by Ramond and Cindy Beckett, "who object" to his "profession, his race, his friends, his cars, and his taste in music."

The Becketts countersued July 11, writing, "Andrew Bynum is a great basketball player and a terrible neighbor who presumes that being an NBA All Star entitles him to party like a rock star in the otherwise quiet Westchester neighborhood where he lives."

TMZ Sports first reported on the suits.

The Becketts go on to write: "Bynum has demonstrated open contempt for the Becketts specifically and for the neighborhood generally by blasting loud, profane, and disrespectful music and video games at window-shaking volumes; by letting his dogs run loose through the neighborhood; by apparently engaging in illegal drug use and permitting marijuana smoke to drift into the Becketts' backyard; by constructing a fence on his property which is not in compliance with the community codes and regulations; by conspicuously brandishing firearms in an attempt to threaten and intimidate the Becketts in retaliation for their legitimate complaints; and, perhaps most seriously, by recklessly racing his luxury cars through the neighborhood at dangerous speeds where children or others could be injured or killed."

Bynum denied all the allegations in a subsequent filing and claims the Becketts have since sold their house so no longer are neighbors.