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Sports InsiderThe NBA Playoffs are about to begin.
April 18th 2006 06:16
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Well kids, the pre-season known as the months of November to April is almost over and the real NBA season is about to begin with the playoffs. The teams are set in both conferences and it’s really just the bottom teams fighting to be the seventh or eighth seeds. The West features, the Spurs, Suns, Nuggets, Mavericks, Grizzlies, Clippers, Lakers, and Kings. While the representatives of the East, are the Pistons, Heat, Nets, Cavs, Wizards, Bucks, Pacers, and the Bulls. Wow, that was a mouthful!
In my humble, yet all knowing opinion, I think this is a rather close championship race and besides the Pistons there are no clear cut favourites out of the bunch. The joy of the postseason is that anything is possible and the eighth seed can easily cause a boilover and upset the top seeds of any conference – especially the team from Sacramento with a mad dog named Ron Artest chomping on the heels of the players in the higher seeds in the West.
Prior history would suggest that the higher seeds will easily sweep away the bottom feeders, but as mentioned before the Spurs might be in for a tough ride with the Kings if they finish eighth. On the Eastern side of the seaboard the Pistons will easily account for the Bulls who are good young team but are a few years off from making a real run at the Larry O’Brien trophy.
The playoffs is where legends are made, and borderline players have breakout performances in the postseason, cash a big check, then are never heard from again (Austin Croshere, anyone?). The stage is also set for the big names to carve their place in NBA mythology with an out of this world performance such as Willis Reed coming back from a badly sprained ankle for the Knicks, or a flu ridden Michael Jordan who carved up the Jazz with a virtuoso performance.
Who will be the breakout performer? Which big name player will take their team onto their back and carry them to the championship? Or, which player will do a David Robinson who wins the MVP, and be totally owned by their opponent? And, perhaps the most pertinent question is who will abstain from sexual gymnastics so they will be right for the playoffs? The answers to all of these questions, and more will soon reveal itself.
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Cibbuano - They probably do get extra freaky before games. NBA players have notorious reputations for fathering children with many different women and who can forget Wilt's boast of bedding over 20, 000 women! He must be have passed away with a big grin on his face.
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P.S. 20,000 women?! BAAAAAAAH!!
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Cibbuano - Are you suggesting that Wilt fibbed? I can't believe that! A male lying about how many women he has been with! I am going to have to go and tell all of my conquests about this news! Hmm how many women would a virgin have had? Haha