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| NBA Playoffs Start on Saturday |
Much has been made of the poor late season form of the defending champion Lakers who entered the week on a five game losing streak. Despite the hysterics of the mainstream sports media, not every coach places a premium on entering the playoffs with ‘momentum’ including Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson. For those who remember the playoff runs of Jackson’s great Chicago Bulls teams led by Michael Jordan this sort of approach to the late regular season will be very familiar. Look for the Lakers to be back in their competitive form once the playoffs begin. In fact, we like the Lakers to eventually win the Western Conference title and return to the finals to try and defend their crown. San Antonio is a veteran heavy team that showed signs of wearing down late in the regular season. It’s hard to see them keeping their energy and avoiding injury long enough to make the finals. Dallas is a team that historically struggles in the postseason when the game gets more physical. Oklahoma City’s team defense isn’t strong enough and they rely too much on NBA scoring king Kevin Durant. Back East, it should be an entertaining battle between the top three teams. The Boston Celtics are an experienced playoff competitor notorious for ‘pacing themselves’ during the regular season to stay in top form for the postseason. The Miami Heat is the media favorite with LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade but their struggles with the other top teams in the East make it unlikely that they’ll reach the finals. Our choice is the defensively nasty Chicago Bulls who have not only become one of the league’s elite but enter the playoffs in great form having won 9 of 10 and 7 straight games. That means by our predictions we’ll see a Los Angeles Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls final. This should be a great series and the experienced Lakers with the ‘Black Mamba’ Kobe Bryant certainly have a shot at defending the title. In our view, however, we think a ‘changing of the guard’ is in order with Derek Rose leading the Chicago Bulls to their first title of the post Michael Jordan era. 
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After a grueling 82 game regular season the NBA playoffs get underway on Saturday with 8 teams in each conference vying to claim the Lawrence O’Brien Trophy including the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. In the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls will enter the postseason as the number one seed followed by the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics. Out West, the San Antonio Spurs claimed the #1 seed with the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City fighting for the next three slots.
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