Thursday, April 15, 2004

Spurs in six

So, the regular season is over and the playoffs now begin. Minnesota won last night to secure the top seed in the West (good for them--they're still not going to the finals) and the Spurs beat Denver to clinch the third seed. The Spurs will face the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round starting Saturday, which will end with the Spurs winning in six, because it's in the NBA bylaws somewhere that the Spurs must play six games in every playoff series they participate in. The only real uncertainty for Spurs fans at this point is how the team will handle the playoff atmosphere without David Robinson.

On the flip side, the hated Los Angeles Lakers backed into the second seed in the west (even though the Spurs finished a game ahead of them). I don't care if the Lakers are Irwin Fletcher's favorite team (note that I'm currently reading Fletch's Fortune), I still gag at the thought of that ego-laden circus that passes for a basketball team. The bright side of this seeding is that the Lakers have to play the Rockets. The Rockets have the talent to get hot and pull an upset, and the Lakers have the talent to self-immolate and implode. By the time the second round starts, the Spurs might even have Devin Brown back and have the roster at full strength. All things being equal, I'd love to see a Spurs-Rockets series again. We just don't get enough of those.

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