NBA Playoffs 2008

I really don't think either of these teams are in the playoffs. This is obviously some kind of NBA rumor mongering to increase TV ratings in those markets.

 

Me thinks Don might be clinging to religion and guns. He certainly seems bitter enough to do so.

 

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Lebron leads all of the NBA in average points+assists+rebounds per game. At the age of 22 he carried his team to the NBA finals. There is no way he is overated. Stop taking whatever drugs you are on.

 

Don, Jerry West retired after last season, so you can't blame him for the Gasol trade. Blame the Grizzlies' current GM Chris Wallace.

With that said, don't everyone hand the Lakers the title just yet. As I see it, two teams have a legitimate chance to beat them: the Spurs and Celtics. They match up horribly with the Spurs because they have no one to defend Duncan and because they have solid perimeter defenders to at least make Kobe work (see: Bowen, Udoka, Ginobili) and the Celts are just a flat out great team. L.A. may be the favorites, but the West is so deep that you can't just hand it to anyone. Really, I think so much hinges on this Spurs/Suns series and who advances (and by the way, if you missed game 1, it was a CLASSIC).

 

That crazed-looking man with a detonater in his hands is one Mark Cuban, 2 more ugly losses like this and he's going to blow up the Mavs.

Let's see if the Suns can get off the ropes (highy doubting it)

Don't want to count chickens, but a Laker-Utah series could be a thing of beauty.

Thanks Nick for picking up on Jerry West not being involved in the Gasol debacle, I would go on to say that the new GM isn't to blame either. The owner of Memphis is trying to sell and to increase value of the franchise traded as much debt as he could. Kwame Brown's expiring contract along w/the rule that roughly equal salaries have to be exchanged sets up ridiclous trades like this.

 

NBA playoffs...



...are a suck fest.

 

Ummmmmmmmmm.....have you watched any NBA this season??

 

What's the old saying....'Go west, young man'. Sorry Belle da Bulls blow, but the Western Conference is the best basketball since Larry and Magic roamed the court. I know you're probably too young too remember that. However, knowing you're a sports fan, there is no way you can watch any of the Spurs-Suns and come up w/the same opinion.

 

Good points...But those game are on way past my bedtime...

...just kidding I do enjoy the West match-ups and maybe the Eastern Conference Finals, but I just prefer playoff Hockey...

...I will say that the regular season in the NBA is almost un-watchable, but when it comes playoff time I will actually enjoy a series or two.

 

This might have been true five years ago, but it certainly wasn't this year. It was a fiercely competitive season and the quality of the games was extraordinarily high. Any basketball fan who watched the league this year is giddy right now.

 

I don't know, I think Munich dominates Zenit, and Fiorentina give Rankers a right humping...................wha..........oh.........this is a thread about basketbal................wtf..?...

 

hahah...this is wierd, put us in a thread not related to the MLS and we agree???

 

dooh-dooh-dooh-dooh, we must be in the twilight zone.

 

I know this is total type-casting, but who better to be the Beast to Bearz' Belle than PCB? 8)


Back to the point of this thread. Great game last night in Utah, the Jekyll and Hyde Jazz strike again. They better win game 4.

 

i'm sick! Landry killed the Jazz!!!!

 

The Lakers will be in the 2nd round after tonights game. This is good news as we can let Bynum rest even more and then have him for the 2nd round. It'd be even better if Houston won another game against the Jazz. Not to worry though, the Jazz series will be 5 games.


What I DIDN'T want is the Spurs winning against the Suns. The Suns series would've lasted 5 minutes as Gasol would dominate a slow and old Shaq. Gasol isn't gonna dominate Duncan and Kobe is gonna have to win the series. If both teams make the western conference finals, it'll be the true title contest. It might be on eof the best playoff series' ever. I really mean that. 7 games and nobody would win by more than a few points in each game.

 

you sure he's not still on the Spurs payroll Donnie boy? :lol:

 

My dog took a shit last night and out came the Denver Nuggets. Maybe I'll get the BROOM out and SWEEP it up.