NBA Playoffs
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
There are many interesting story lines this year in the NBA playoffs, which begin tomorrow.
- The LA Clippers make their first appearance since Noah and the ark. The Clippers have steadily gotten better over the years and now have a coach and the players to be a decent team.
- Lebron James also makes his first, of what will probably be many, postseason appearances. Let's see if he has that winning disposition that took MJ a few years to obtain.
- Tim Duncan leads the defending champion Spurs into the playoffs as the top seed out of the West. It's partly Tony Parker's team now, though, and he'll have to be firing for the Spurs to win it all again.
- Kobe Bryant is back in the playoffs for the first time since he and Shaq divorced. Kobe led the league with an amazing 35 point average over the regular season. I hear people talk about how much of a ballhog Kobe is (especially after the 80 point game) and it's true, but he doesn't have too many other scoring options on that team. Can he carry his team to the second round? I sure wouldn't want to play him in the first round.
Speaking of Kobe, I don't know how anyone else could be voted MVP in the NBA. Now, I'm not a big Kobe fan, but when you can carry that Lakers team to 44 wins, you deserve an MVP trophy. Take him off of that team and they might win 10 games. He was as valuable to a team as one player can get. Besides his 35 point per game average, he brought down 5 rebounds and dished out 4.5 assists a game as well.
Anyway, when it's all said and done, I look for the old guard to still be standing in the Finals. I'm going to take the easy way out and say it'll be a matchup of top seeds, Spurs and Pistons, with the Spurs repeating.
(Now, look for both of those teams to be bounced out in the first round.)
There are many interesting story lines this year in the NBA playoffs, which begin tomorrow.
- The LA Clippers make their first appearance since Noah and the ark. The Clippers have steadily gotten better over the years and now have a coach and the players to be a decent team.
- Lebron James also makes his first, of what will probably be many, postseason appearances. Let's see if he has that winning disposition that took MJ a few years to obtain.
- Tim Duncan leads the defending champion Spurs into the playoffs as the top seed out of the West. It's partly Tony Parker's team now, though, and he'll have to be firing for the Spurs to win it all again.
- Kobe Bryant is back in the playoffs for the first time since he and Shaq divorced. Kobe led the league with an amazing 35 point average over the regular season. I hear people talk about how much of a ballhog Kobe is (especially after the 80 point game) and it's true, but he doesn't have too many other scoring options on that team. Can he carry his team to the second round? I sure wouldn't want to play him in the first round.
Speaking of Kobe, I don't know how anyone else could be voted MVP in the NBA. Now, I'm not a big Kobe fan, but when you can carry that Lakers team to 44 wins, you deserve an MVP trophy. Take him off of that team and they might win 10 games. He was as valuable to a team as one player can get. Besides his 35 point per game average, he brought down 5 rebounds and dished out 4.5 assists a game as well.
Anyway, when it's all said and done, I look for the old guard to still be standing in the Finals. I'm going to take the easy way out and say it'll be a matchup of top seeds, Spurs and Pistons, with the Spurs repeating.
(Now, look for both of those teams to be bounced out in the first round.)
