~NBA Playoffs~
 

Make your predictions!

I say lakers win it.

*Cough* lol

Yea, that about sums up how good the NBA playoffs are compared to Hockey.

lol... oh so true..

I'll go with Lakers as well.

Well, if me wings go out. we shall focus our attention on our basketball team instead... Go Pistons!

Sac

Sac...

I hope the Mavs win

I hope the Sixers win the East, but I know they won't win it all. My vote is for Sacramento.

Sacramento has the bigger chance to win here, this is sooo not a laker year, you gotta watch out for San Antonio though, they are doing godly on the last few games, they got like what? 10 in a row their last games?

Mavs could get it too but i seriously dont want that happening...

Mavs can't play D. They are a great regular season team, but can't bear down when it matters in the playoffs

san antonio is a beast....thats all i gotta say

I hope Lakers kick Sacremento's ass once again. :)

I am the biggest King hater ever! And I am probably the biggest Laker lover ever!

The joy of basketball.

Lakers didnt kick sacrementos ass at all... it was down to the wire and it came down to some bad officiating and christie and stojakovic not bein able to throw the ball in the ocean that last game... so sacremento did not get their ass kicked...

For the east i like philly
for the west san antonio has been hot lately.. mavs have been losing and sacremento has been the same all year :unsure:

pacers :(

I'm rooting for every team that plays the Lakers.

I think sacramento is the only team with a legit shot at taking them down.

And this is getting stupid. Like the NFL 84-97. The superbowl didn't matter, whoever won the NFC championship was pretty much the shoe in to win the big game. It's like that now with the NBA and the western confrence.

Lakers lost again... thank god.

T'Wolves are now up 2-1

It was a long fustrating game, but the team that deserved to win won... due to all the BS calls. If Lakers would have won that game with all those bad calls I wouldn't have watched another NBA game for this season.

But anyway, I hope Minnisota plays with this intensity for the rest of this series. I think they have a serious chance at de-throning the Lakers if they keep it up.

You mean you hope the refs kick Sacramento's ass FOR YOU once again? Game 6 last year was one of the biggest ****ing travesties ever. Tonight's game was almost as bad. When the announcers (Who are totally ****ing biased towards LA as it is) are pointing out the calls it should be obvious.

Throughout the 90's it was the Knicks who got every single call. Fortunately the Bulls were able to take care of them even with the biased officials. Now, the nba put the refs in the lakers pockets. From the time that Pat Riley left the lakers in the 80s until now the NBA championship pretty much stayed between the Bulls, the Pistons and teams from Texas. The NBA can't STAND to see the trophy stay out of NY or LA so they do everything they can to make sure teams like the lakers and knicks get every single break.

Like how the Lakers cut their roster in anticipation of getting O'neal from Orlando despite the fact that they would never do this unless they were already in negotiation with him, which they obviously were. Too bad it was illegal because he was still under contract with the Magic at the time....

Or back in 1985 when NBA fixed the draft lottery so that the knicks could get Patrick Ewing.

Tonight's game should have made it blatantly obvious, the NBA conspiracy theory is not only alive and well, it's true.

LOL... maybe.

I say get rid of the draft lottery... It really screws over bad teams.

I mean, the year before last Rockets go 40-42... barely out of the playoffs. Then they have one bad injured up season, and they just happen to get the first pick in the draft.

Even Spurs and Mr. Duncan... great team, one injured up season, then they turn around and get Duncan first pick, then a year later win an NBA championship.

Wizards, Mike is coming back and trying to re-build this franchise. The team wasn't even close to the worst in the NBA and they get first pick.

I think that conspiracy is true... as for Refs, I dunno.

Lakers beat Sacremento last year off of terrible officiating and a gift from god shot from Horry. I would hardly call that kicking thier ass.

The main think I don't like about the Lakers is thier cockyness... Cockyness from Phil:

"I think this is the best game they have ever played, I can't see them getting any better"

Yeah, that's why they beat you guys w/o Garnett in OT. Also, I hate the cocky fans. How can the three time champion's stadium be one of the quietest arenas in the NBA? Also, don't get me started on Shaq... I respect Kobe, but Shaq is the cockiest SOB in the game.

Blah blah, refs this, refs that, cry cry.

I hate refs just as much as the next guy, and I have seen some really stupid calls, and refs that have really bad skills (or lack there of). But it does no good to complain.

I don't watch basketball too much, but everytime I see a Lakers game the announcers are always saying how amazing some of the calls LA gets in their favor. Especially last game in the last couple of minutes, but as long as the Timberwolves won anyway. I can't stand Kobe or Shaq (or Fox or Horry or whoever else is on their team).

Hell, I admit, yesterday's game was a complete joke. Refs were morons (I know they were in it for the money..., but they made things really obvious with Pargo's layup foul..) Also, you could keep saying it, but the fact is that Lakers did beat the Kings last year. Horry's finishing 3 was phenomenal. Lakers played with no heart yesterday, the only Laker with heart was Derek Fisher while Kobe and Shaq were playing with absolutely no Laker pride.

This year, things are different. As much as I hate the Sacremento Kings, I have to admit, their players are really good, and my bet is on them this year. If a team wins, then they win. Even if the refs are morons in a game, the team that wins, simply wins. So when the Lakers lost yesterday, I didn't act like a sore loser and go bitch about how full of **** the game was, but when the Lakers won the King's last year, they won regardless of what anyone has to say.

That's how the game of basketball works.

It's good the Lakers are out.I think the Pistons'll finish off the 76ers in 7 but it doesn't matter bcause the Nets will finish both of them off.I hope my Kings can get past Dallas but i don't think they'll beat San Antonio.The East could get the championship this year if the Nets face the Spurs.

Nets is winning the championship after having beat Dallas.

Sorry buddy but im pretty sure that the east isnt gonna get the championship this year :p...

I think its gonne be SA

Go pistons!!!

The Mavs is beating the Spurs.

Also New Jersy over the Pistons in 6.

San Antonio over Mavs, then NJ over Pistons, then San Antonio over NJ...

Ha.We sweeping the Pistons and Dallas is winning in 6.Then it'll be a good finals with New Jersey winning in 7.

I want Dallas to win, but it'll be San Antonio vs. New Jersey in the finals methinks...with San Antonio winning it in 6

At least Detroit is getting sweeped.I really want to see the Spurs lose because they are so boring.Dallas vs. New Jersey would be such a great Finals.

Ha Detroit gets swept twice! First the RedWings and soon the Pistons.And NJ might win in 2 sports.Amazing.NY was supposed to do it a couple of years back but the Knicks messed up as usual.

the funniest thing in this thread is stonecutter saying the Knicks got all the calls in the 90's...LOL... the biggest beneficiary of BS calls in history = Jordan

the nets are going to win it all. they're going to win game 4 and 5 while the Spurs win game 6 and the nets finish it off in game 7

I think Nets will be hard pressed to win another game this series period... Spurs are the best Road team in the leauge, I think NJ has a better chance of winning in SA then in NJ.

SA all the way.

:)

ahh, its all tied up again.. and the nets are taking game 5 while SA takes game 6 and the nets finish it off in 7 as i said earlier

GO NETS GO!

Well, if SA shoots 28% from the field again I think Nets will win too ;)

SA was playing so bad that I thought the game was fixed... hell, this whole series they have been playing that bad.

This has been the most boring NBA finals ever...i'm just excited about finding out the final score.

I don't think it's boring... it's just not really a flashy series. More technical game. I think last years finals were worse... at least this year I feel like at least wathing parts of the game, last year Nets didn't even pose a threat, and they didn't even seem to try half as hard.

I kinda agree.... I just hope the Nets win today.

Spurs are our new NBA champs... and um, I think last year's championship was FAR more boring.