hardwoodparoxysm.com - 6/15/2009
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Those who choose to surround themselves with sports encounter constant comparison. Which player is better? Which team is better? If X player wins Y amount of rings, would that make him the best of all-time? To be honest, I love it. I need it. I’ve always been one to squabble, ...
latimes.com - 6/15/2009
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latimes.com —
From Orlando, Fla. -- The Lakers won. Yippee,
hooray for them and all that stuff. Phil now...
has more rings than Red , like any of us could sleep waiting for this moment, while Jeanie continues searching for her ring, but then that's tweet for another ...
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Idolatry of Lakers is ludicrous - Los Angeles Times
sportingnews.com - 6/15/2009
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sportingnews.com —
Okay everyone, 'fess up. No matter how much
you despise Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, the city of...
Los Angeles, that movie Kalifornia , or Derek Fisher's eyebrows, you knew this was going to happen at some point. There was just no way that, with this ...
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All Things Being Equal, That Happened
sportingnews.com - 6/15/2009
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sportingnews.com —
Okay everyone, 'fess up. No matter how much
you despise Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, the city of...
Los Angeles, that movie Kalifornia , or Derek Fisher's eyebrows, you knew this was going to happen at some point. There was just no way that, with this ...
(more)
All Things Being Equal, That Happened
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The TrueHoop Network Shootaround
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Rob Mahoney of Hardwood Paroxysm: "Focusing on individual storylines and details can be a fantastic enterprise, but in this case I truly think it disservices the bigger picture: the Lakers kicked ass in these playoffs. They forgot who they were for a minute against the Rockets, but on the whole we've seen some terrific basketball from L.A. Good enough, in fact, that today I don't care to think about Phil [Jackson] vs. Red [Auerbach], or what this means for Kobe [Bryant] in the grand scheme of things. ...
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