How Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers Exposed the Phoenix Suns

It would be in very poor taste to gloat about the Los Angeles Lakers dominant performance in Game One of their Western Conference Finals series with the Phoenix Suns, especially since it's only one game.

But, I will take a moment to point out a few observations from the Lakers' 128-107 victory, and I promise to do it in the most objective manner that is possible.

Before the series began I penned a couple of articles which dealt with the reasons I felt the Lakers would prevail against the Suns, and I was summarily accosted for the shallowness of my opinion.

The bare essence of my theory revolved around an assumption that the Lakers were simply a better team than the Suns, and after witnessing Game One's debacle, I am hesitant to divert from my stance.

The prem...

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