Huh... you mean people are actually watching basketball games this time of year?

That's wierd - it's still HOCKEY SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!

MH

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You must be on the East Coast. Or Canada, possibly?

After being a lacadasical (sp?) fan during the regular season, I do get fired up watching the playoffs. The players actually hustle after loose balls, and play defense which is tough to do during an 82 game season.

My money remains on the Lakers because "to be the man you got to beat the man."

I'm a native New Yorker, transplanted to Seattle about 13 years ago. Lifelong Islanders fan (woe is me.)
Surprisingly, there's lot's of ice time in Seattle - I still get to put the skates on once a week or so.

Check out the Hockey vs basketball playoffs columns at espn.com...

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/neel/030418.html
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/armstrong/030418.html

Pretty darn funny.

MH

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Just couldn't resist taking that shot at a Mavs fan. The NBA champs will definitely come from the west. It'll be the Lakers again this year, though the other teams have caught up some.

Mark

somewhere along the lines i am from ky. where basketball is king. love it. whats the nba

Im psyched for theplayoffs , got my Steve Nash hat on right now, though I think the Mavs will los ein the West champs. I think the KNings have the lakers number this year, their team is soo deep, they 8 or 9 guys that could start on the lakers team ( not for SHaq daddy and Kobe, but the other stiffs). I pick the Kings, the East should just give up now, no chance, the Finals may be a 4 game series, 5 games max.

Schumacher 1......soon to be Raikkonen 1

MAVS ALL THE WAY BABY!!! my boys are the thugs for the job!

well next year. it's going to be the lakers again this year. but my mavs and cuban are going to hatch a mad plan and bring it home to dallas!

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come on fredly scream with me...



GO STARS!!!!!! STANELY CUP IS COMING HOME TO BIG D!!!!

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I'm with ya' poser. I'm a native Dallasite, though it's been a few years since I lived there. I agree, I think next year is our year. I think we're one player short and Cube will find him in the off-season...I'm not giving up on this year, though.

BTW, these Kings fans are driving me CRAZY!! It would make my year if the Mavs took them out in the second round!!

I think the Devils are going to take the cup - Brodeur is quietly putting together a hall of fame career, but he needs another cup to seal the deal. Dallas does look darn good, though...

In the NBA (OK, I admit it, I turn the channel between periods - after Don Cherry) I have to bite the bullet and take the #@*^*&*^ Lakers. Yuck. I need a bath now. Somebody PLEASE take these guys out, and while you're at it, kill the person who defaced Shaq's ball - THE reason he manned up and started playing hard again.

MH

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I'm a native Dallasite

i knew you where smarter and better looking than the average forum yaker. your quote expains everything.

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big shaq in the middle is the problem. if an team wants the championship they have to counter him.

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That's the Big Aristotle to you, poser.

shaq is on a discovery channel specail about custom chopper builder jesse james when he throws down my favorite quote from an nba player...



"this is the biggest bike on the planet of the earth."



gotta get my shaq fu black belt.

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You're right about Shaq. As much as I hate to admit it, he is (in the immortal words of David Duffield) a force with which to be reckoned (roll the "r" for effect.) Yuck. Bad taste in my mouth.

The Lakers have the best (Shaq) and (very) arguably the second best (Kobe) players in the league. That's pretty hard to beat, even when the rest of their starting 5 would ride the pine on any of the other contenders. I repeat, Yuck. I hate the Lakers - almost as much as I hate the Flyers.

MH

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cuban needs to fork over some cash and get him into a mavs uniform. i think it would be funny.

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Okay, as a King's fan, I'll bite. jaylew, aren't you in Sacto? And you are a Mavs fan? Wow, talk about masochism. Probably a Cowboys fan too, right? As for the Lakers having the Mavs number, who dosen't (at least among the West's elite)? I don't really dislike the Mavs, I just find 'em funny. Runnin' all those goofy looking guys out on the floor (Nash, Nowitzki, Bradley, Najerah, Van Exel - the ugliest team in the NBA), playin' a center who is afraid to go into the paint, havin' the best record all year only to stumble into the post season and nearly draw the Lakers, and then strugglin' to beat a Blazers team without its starting backcourt. Those guys are a riot. But at least they are taking care of business with the 2-0 lead, unlike the Spurs. The only time all year I am rooting for that team so that they can be fresh to face the Lakers and they go and loose homecourt to the Suns. At this rate the Mavs and Kings will be back at Arco for games three and four before the Lakers even set foot in San Antonio. Mavs -Kings will be a hellofa series, though hopefully we will be celebrating on your floor with a 4-1 victory.

Aggghhh.

I'm still in a state of shock from Detroit getting swept.

waaaaahhhhh!!!

I can't even bring myself to watch another game. Thak god Colorado got eliminated.

That being said, a Dallas (Stars) v. NJ (Devils) would be a good consolation finals matchup. I got to watch both Marty Turco and John Madden in their formative years at UofM. Both are great players.

How to buy a Shaq daddy: fine Nash for every bad hair day.

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