Kobe Bryant is too old and worn down.
The Celtics have no center.
If the Spurs can't beat the Grizzlies, how are they going to beat anyone good?
The choking Heat?
Chicago? Right.
There will be no NBA champion this year, because no team is capable of winning it all. Dominant players are either too old (Bryant, Duncan, Pierce, Nowitzki) or too immature (James) to carry their teams the way the stars of yesterday did.
If Dwight Howard has trouble with the Hawks, what would happen if he had to face James? And if James has alligator arms at the end of every game, what happens in a 7-game series when 3 or 4 games come down to the final possession?
Like a vacant boxing title, maybe the NBA will not have a champion. Old teams melt down in June, and young teams like the Thunder wilt under the pressure. No champion.
Maybe the Celtics are a little bit better than we thought, but with New York at 40 percent efficiency we still don't know if Boston's sweep showed it has enough fuel to make a long playoff run.
In LA, Bryant is yelling at Pau Gasol again, and that's never a bad thing. But the Mamba has issues of his own, and you wonder if those guys can keep it going for another two months.
Maybe the Heat will figure out how to actually beat a good team instead of strutting around after beating up on kindergartners. If they win it all, half the country will go on the LeaBron James diet as everyone throws up at once.
Right now, though, it's anyone's playoffs. And no one's.
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