Lakers want to avoid spurs in 1st round

[temujin]

Sure,

and Stern will let the defending champions Los Angels team disappear in the first round....

[silverblk mystix]

Sure,

and Stern will let the defending champions Los Angels team disappear in the first round....

you don't get it....it won't be THAT close...spurs will dominate....besides stern is putting his bets on lebron this year...

[Spurminator]

Derek Fisher s us again...

[easy7]

4-1 dummy...pray that you avoid the Mavs cause that's ya only chance to advance.

I thought it was 4-0

[jestersmash]

The Los Angles Sterns aren't going to be booted first round.

[Spurs Brazil]

I'm starting to like the idea of play LA in the 1st round. They're playing terrible now

[hunterxaz]

I'm starting to like the idea of play LA in the 1st round. They're playing terrible now

So are you.

[spursfan1000]

I can tell you right now that every team in the West playoffs becides Dallas want to avoid us in the 1st round.

[spursfan1000]

I'm starting to like the idea of play LA in the 1st round. They're playing terrible now

They are but true champions come alive in the playoffs.

[lefty]

Phoenix suns announcers just said: " The Lakers do not want to face the Spurs in the 1st round "

[ohmwrecker]

The Suns are afraid of the Spurs, were not. This will be an easy series like always.

The Spurs are the ONLY team in the west the Lakers do not want to want to play. No other team has as good of a chance to knock out the Lakers as the Spurs. The Blazers and Thunder could give the Lakers a tough series, but they can't win. The Spurs can beat them and they know it.

[shingo_318]

one often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it...

bring on the lakers...

[admiralsnackbar]

The Lakers are a formidable team, but the overall strength of their starting five is compromised by the abject weakness of their bench -- they're only an injury to one of their starters from a fishing trip.

That's not to say they don't deserve the respect of being favored to win as last year's champions, but it does limit the extent to which I can honestly say the Spurs haven't a chance against them.