The NBA (National Basketball Association) Playoffs started yesterday, April 29th, 2008. I am the type of fan that does not watch the NBA during the season very often because the games are not nearly as exciting as they are during the playoffs. The games during the regular season are much less interesting and I do not like to watch them as much because I do not think that the players are trying nearly as hard in regular season games. When playoff time comes though I rarely miss a game. I am actually watching the Los Angeles Lakers play against the Denver Nuggetts while I am typing this blog.
One reason that this years NBA playoffs are going to be the best that I have ever seen is because of the pairity in the western conference. The western conference is so close that during the regular season there was nine different teams that were the number one team in the western conference at one point or another during the regular season. Each of the match-ups in the western conference are so evenly match that there is no clear cut team that everyone agrees is going to win. In my personal opinion I think that the Los Angeles Lakers are going to win the western conference because they have the best players in the league in Kobe Bryant and several key role players who all know what they need to do to be successful in the playoffs.
In the eastern conference there are two teams that most everybody thinks is going to win and those two teams are the Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons. The Boston Celtics have had the best record in the NBA the entire season and during the last offseason they added Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen which have given them the extra talent to win an NBA championship.
I also enjoy the NBA playoffs because I do a fantasy game during the NBA playoffs. I pick a different player each day during the playoffs that I think is going to have a good game that day. The trick is I can only pick that player once throughout the entire playoffs, so I must choose wisely. Playing a fantasy game is a great way to be more involved in the playoffs and it also makes you that much more interested in all of the games.
One reason that this years NBA playoffs are going to be the best that I have ever seen is because of the pairity in the western conference. The western conference is so close that during the regular season there was nine different teams that were the number one team in the western conference at one point or another during the regular season. Each of the match-ups in the western conference are so evenly match that there is no clear cut team that everyone agrees is going to win. In my personal opinion I think that the Los Angeles Lakers are going to win the western conference because they have the best players in the league in Kobe Bryant and several key role players who all know what they need to do to be successful in the playoffs.
In the eastern conference there are two teams that most everybody thinks is going to win and those two teams are the Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons. The Boston Celtics have had the best record in the NBA the entire season and during the last offseason they added Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen which have given them the extra talent to win an NBA championship.
I also enjoy the NBA playoffs because I do a fantasy game during the NBA playoffs. I pick a different player each day during the playoffs that I think is going to have a good game that day. The trick is I can only pick that player once throughout the entire playoffs, so I must choose wisely. Playing a fantasy game is a great way to be more involved in the playoffs and it also makes you that much more interested in all of the games.
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