big island
sorry but
wade and kobe are a wash and so are bosh and gasol
lets give em numbers if u want
lets say kobe is a 95 wade is a 94 same for gasol 95 and bosh bosh 94
now bron is a 96 artest is a what 80 at best

if they meet in the finals i hope the heat lose but it doesnt matter who starts with the 3 in miami that starting 5 will be better.

I just want the season to start. Bulls look really good if they get Redick as well and Orlando looks like it is going backwards since both Shard and VC are not going to get it done in the playoffs. Right now you have to figure the Bulls have to be the favorite out of the East with their new coach improving their defensive and they will clean the boards with Boozer as well. Celtics are another year older and I don’t think they will even have the 4 seed this year with both the Bulls, Bucks, and Heat moving up from last years seedings. The Hawks could still be a playoff team although not a 4 seed; in any case they match up well against the Celtics.

Also I wouldn’t count out the Suns again. They had a really bad stretch for about a month and they turned around that ship. Amare is gone but I think they have enough offensive still and they just need to keep developing that second unit. Frye moves into the starting lineup and other than the Western Conference Finals he was lights out from 3 point range. That second unit is key. Also, Richardson was not getting a lot of touches at times. He will get a few more touches and Lopez needs to pick up a few more baskets. I think people are going to realize that Amare is not as good without Nash just like Marion fell off the radar. Suns should still be a top 4 seed.

Also, I think the Thunder matched up well against the Lakers so I think people are expecting a bit too much from them. I think they could move up from the 8 seed that they were but I don’t see them making it into the top 4. They were pretty much injury free whereas most of those other top teams had injuries to key players.

The Heat will shut a lot of folks down with their perimeter defense with Wade and Lebron on the wings deflecting passes and stealing balls(with their long arms and speed)it will be hard to score on them. Chicago was locking people down with Jordan and Pippen much the same way during their run. People are forgetting Wade and James both avg. 1 blk and 2 stls a game.

Western Conference playoff seeding prediction

1. Lakers
2. Spurs(they got rid of RJ and finally picked up Tiago; Manu is resting this summer; Parker should be healthy; they have some good young players in Blair/George Hill)
3. Mavericks
4. Suns
5. Jazz*
6. Portland(I think they will get bad karma for what they did to their GM KP and Oden/Camby will get hurt again)
7. Thunder
8. Denver(contract year for Carmelo which means he jacks up more shots to pad his numbers at the sake of wins)

Jazz probably seems too high but Jerry Sloan always delivers the goods. You can bet against him if you want.

The more I look at the Western conference potential seating it still seems way too premature to call the Eastern Conference better or even equal. The Clippers should be better as well as the Kings. Hornets should play better with a healthier Paul. The Western Conference is still ridiculously stacked. “West is still the Beast.”

@barons beard – Lebron is better than an average defender. He did a good job against Paul Pierce and even made Rose take ridiculous shots to beat him at times in the playoffs when he was covering him which is ridiculous considering how fast Rose is. With that being said, I think the Lakers are still the favorites to win with or without Bynum. As long as Odom and Artest play decent then they should be fine. I am a Kobe fan hater so it pains me to stay he will get his six rings and 2 3 peats like Jordan. But the following year the Heat should be able to start eclipsing them since they will have their exceptions. Most likely there will be a lockout after this season so who knows if they will even have a playoffs in 2012.

Has he not written a report on his views?

Shut the suss up, Joe Cooley High.

Kobe had a solid foundation? in trophie rooms they had in the Forum? yeah maybe.. but what he really got rite away was a Shaq oriented team from 97 and on with Nick the Quick, Ced 25 per Ceballos and Ediie “The best swingman in the L this side of Scottie Pippen” Jones to battle his spot over AND Del Harris as a head coach. Get the fuck out of here with that rich fam bullshit. we all know what it is, problem is we all know we all woulda done it as well if we were in Brons Nikes. Shit, I go ball with CB or Wader rite now..

Ian, I can respect that almost a wash statement with Kobe/Wade and Bosh/Gasol. Bron is better than Artest, that’s fact. Fish isn’t as good as Blake for the Lakers, and Bynum is as much better than Haslem as Lebron is better than Artest. So assuming everyone is a tie in the starting five, it comes down to the bench (Lakers) and coack (Lakers). You could maybe argue Riley, but he ain’t the coach.

don’t forget Miami win probably have home court in the playoffs too, they can easily win 65 games in the east playing the NJ,NY,WAS,CHA,TOR of the world.

And LeBron is a great on ball defender when he wants to be. Yes, he doesn’t go hard on def all the time but he got the natural talent to defend like crazy, trust me Riley will get them to defend.

Because no one ever said bosh could go down as the greatest ever, thats why.