This sereis will not be a cakewalk for Kobe and the Lakers and I believe they know it. AI and Carmella will not go down easy, however they will go down, in 6 games...............

All about KMart and Camby, right ?

Camby struggled during the later part of the season. KMart got better.

Why do we have to call Carmelo Anthony that horrible nickname?It's so degrading, not that funny and what did this kid ever do to us Piston fans?

Back to Topic: I think the Nuggets might go down pretty easy actually. I've watched every Nuggets game this season as I really like this team, but I don't see them playing both sides of the floor against the Lakers. I've seen so many games where they just could not get a stop to save their life. Sometimes they play desperately effective D in the last two minutes. I haven't watched the Lakers this year at all, but my first thought is: who are they going to put on Kobe? Camby, who doesn't really play man to man? (Maybe Najera could do it. I don't know.)

Man, I'd LOVE it if they could get even two games from the Lakers but I'm not holding my breath. But just that some of you guys think they might win one is highly encouraging to me.

Well...I'm trying to watch the first game in this series. It's a shame the pre-game show was ruined by the insane hype by ABC (Wilbon should have just stayed on PTI, he's horrible as a commentator...boring and predictable) about guess what...

LAKERS vs. CELTICS....unreal...why should I be surprised at the way the national sports media hypes everything up way too soon? It's the first game of the first round, PEOPLE! We've got archival footage, statistics of the results between Celtics and Lakers so many years in a row, predictions, grown men professionals practically hyperventilating at the possiblity of a matchup that is what six weeks away. I swear to God.

In the midst of all this, the Nuggets are doing what they can against what looks like a formidable team. And I'm kind of watching and recording and hoping against hope that the Nuggets can steal at least one game from this series. I'd rather it be with their home fans though.

Showtime, baby.

This is pathetic.

The Denver Nuggets' defensive strategy employs the latest in "hope they miss" technology.

With everyone so busy tripping over themselves to put the Lakers and Celtics in the finals, it seems they've forgotten that Andrew Bynum still isn't ready to play after missing more than 3 months with a knee injury. Given how much improvement he was showing this season, it was reasonable for people to talk about the Lakers as a real contender once they got Gasol: a core of Kobe, Odom, Bynum, and Gasol is clearly a legitimate title contender. But they still don't have all those pieces on the court, and it's expecting quite a lot for someone to recover from missing nearly 4 months and immediately make a difference in a playoff series (they're not expecting him back until the next round at the earliest). Without him in there, I don't think they'll make it out of the West.

They might need Bynum to beat the Spurs.

They certainly won't need him to beat the Nuggets or the Jazz, and the Spurs series is more than a month away, giving Bynum more recovery time. (Plus, the Hornets or Mavs might make it instead of San Antonio, and all of them have such weak frontcourts that Gasol and Odom will be more than enough)

OOOh the precious Laker Celt rivalry. I'm gonna hurl...................and hurl some more.......
What does the media want ? Which is the sexy match up? And hurl some more.......