Stan Park

28 Articles

Just Too Much Kobe, Lakers Crush Suns

The man doesn't practice all week, has a "significant amount of fluid" drained from his ailing right knee and he does what?  Oh, you know, go off for 40 on 13 of 23 from the field (3 of 6 from…

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The Demise of an Immature King Without a Ring

Let's be real here.  It should have stopped last year.  Let's give it a break at the very least. For the last three years, the entire sports and entertainment media circuit has been waving their tiny spoons, mimicking the flight…

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Time for the Lakers to Refuel and Revitalize

Whether you're in school or caught up in the daily grind of the working world, when has rest and time off ever been considered a detrimental thing?  We all want it because we all recognize the value in it. The…

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Falling in Love with Bad Habits

No disrespect to the Jazz and Jerry Sloan, but allowing a team that is playing without two of their best players to hang as uncomfortably close as the Lakers did in both Game 1 and 2 is unacceptable, plain and…

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Slipping Through this Playoff Trap Series

I really wonder how much Jerry Sloan hates having to coach against Phil Jackson year after year in the NBA Playoffs.  As if losing back to back NBA Finals to the Hall of Fame coach and Michael Jordan in the…

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How the Lakers Need to Stand Up to Rolling Thunder

It seems like the Lakers love to make fans like me who were so confident that we'd win Game 4 look like a buffoon, idiot, imbecile, dummy, whatever you want to call it.  In the words of Maino, ALL OF…

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Lakers vs. Thunder: The Series So Far

I don't know about you, but I'm rather drained so far from the first three games of this wild series. I've got to admit though, it's definitely a lot more exciting than last year's dull five games against the Utah…

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Stumbling into the Playoffs

Following that most atrocious “performance” rendered by our beloved Los Angeles Lakers, I honestly had to take a couple of hours before I began trying to piece together the remnants of what was supposed to be a 72 win season…

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