He was drafted into the NBA, and while it’s his first season, it’s never too early to start talking about the conference champions and the NBA champion.
In a professional sports league where more than half of the teams make the playoffs, the season seems almost irrelevant. Better teams are reaching a point in the season where they only have the edge in getting the ball rolling. In addition, the lower seeds that make the playoffs are usually teams that only play 1 or 2 months of good basketball during the season, which spans from October to April. With that said, here are my predictions for the Eastern and Western Conference seeds.
Eastern Conference:
3. New Jersey Nets
5. Cleveland
7. New York Knicks
8. Miami Heat
Western Conference
2. Phoenix Sons
3. San Antonio Spurs
6. Utah Jazz
7. Warriors of the Golden State
8. New Orleans Hornets
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Western Conference Champion – San Antonio Spurs
Eastern Conference Champion – Detroit Pistons
I really thought the East Pistons the last decade.
NBA Finals Champion – San Antonio Spurs
In the rematch of 2005 NBA finals The spurs will proceed again. While the Pistons are a great team, I don’t think they are as good as they were with the Spurs back in 2005. On the other hand, the Spurs are a much better team now, fresh out of the championship and coming off Tony’s season. Parker Chauncey Billups may have passed the point guard ranking. Seriously, it will be close between the Bakers and the Spurs; naturally based on his own defense
Finals MVP – Tim Duncan
Sometimes, I guess, I’m watching another game there (and you’re probably watching another game, too, from my predictions), but I thought Tim Duncan, and not Tony Parker, was the Finals MVP last year. I also thought Dwyane Wade and Shaq probably should have been co-MVP’s in 2006 ; because Wade doesn’t do half of what he does that series without the sole presence of Shaq on the floor. I love when The Big Man Perfectly defend the pick-n-roll, or when the defense allows it to get to itself before the offense gets out of the running back. This is what Duncan did in the Finals, and this is what he does in every game. He is the reason the Spurs are who we think we are, and he is the reason the Spurs will repeat as NBA Champions in 2008.
