Bryant’s opinion not worth much

The Kobe Video’s price has plunged.

The tape of Kobe Bryant ripping Andrew Bynum and Mitch Kupchak to a few fans has gone from being peddled unsuccessfully to major media organizations to being sold online for $1.99 to yours for free on a website that generates revenue from ads.

Now, also free as a bonus from the Kobe Video Guys, the Kobe Audio in which somebody who sure sounds like Kobe says something that sure sounds like “Dr. Buss is an idiot.”

By the way, Kobe, in a world where the dudes you chat up and drop a few friendly expletives with in an Orange County parking lot have video and audio rolling ... Jerry Buss is the idiot?

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Trivia time

Greg Oden, the first pick of Thursday’s NBA draft, says he will wear No. 52 as a Portland Trail Blazer.

What former All-Star previously wore that number for the Blazers?

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The local Park

If your last name is Park and you play on the LPGA Tour, it isn’t easy to distinguish yourself.

There are four Parks on tour, and six playing in the weather-delayed U.S. Women’s Open in Southern Pines, N.C.

Angela Park, though, seems to be finding a way.

The 18-year-old rookie who turned pro shortly before she graduated from Torrance High last year grabbed the first-round lead at the Open after a three-under-par 68 Thursday.

Weather kept Park from even teeing off for the second round Friday, and only 24 players have completed 36 holes.

That gives everyone a little more time to get to know a rookie who hasn’t missed a cut this season and has been a first-round leader three times but has yet to win.

Born in Brazil -- and still a Brazilian citizen -- Park is of Korean heritage but grew up mostly in California, moving here when she was 8.

“When people ask me, ‘Are you Brazilian, Korean or American?’ I think I’m three of them all mixed up together,” said Park, who speaks English, Korean and Portuguese.

That prompted some people to recall another young golfer from Southern California with a rich ethnic heritage.

“Remember when Tiger Woods used the word ‘Cablanasian’ to describe his ethnicity?” wrote Mechelle Voepel in the Kansas City Star.

“We’ll try ‘Brakoram’ to wrap up Angela Park’s nationality.”

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Bull or no bull?

Joakim Noah, the former Florida star who was taken ninth by the Chicago Bulls, often goes his own way -- to the irritation of some and the delight of others.

Noah, wearing a bow tie and looking like he was going to the prom, was questioned about his marketing value in Chicago, a big city with a big passion for basketball. He dismissed the angle.

“Oh, I feel so marketable, you have no idea. I’m so marketable, yes. That’s exactly why I wanted to go to Chicago, to be marketable,” he said, drawing laughs.

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A ‘clean’ hit

Defenseman Scott Stevens, famous for the punishing hits he delivered as a New Jersey Devil, will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame this fall.

Stevens gave some insight into retirement life when he admitted what he was doing when he got the call from the Hall.

“I was just cleaning,” he said. “Still don’t have the floor done yet.”

Stevens gave a few more glimpses into his life of domesticity.

“I have a couple of kids in high school, so busy with them, going to their different sporting events and driving them to school. Also, I’m in the midst of renovating an old farmhouse and planting a garden this year and looking after a couple lawns, and that keeps me busy.”

How often do you see a Hall of Famer mowing the grass?

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Trivia answer

Buck Williams.

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And finally

Noah, pressed about his endorsement potential, stuck to his story.

“To me, you guys look at it as market, and it’s always about money and this, and ‘Oh, if I would have went last year, then would I have been a higher pick.’

“But to me, I feel like it’s happiness. It’s about being happy, and winning makes me happy. I feel like I have an opportunity to win a lot of basketball games in Chicago.”

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robyn.norwood@latimes.com