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Game 1 NBA Finals Pick-2008 NBA Championship

June 5, 2008

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This year’s NBA finals pits two of the league’s most storied and successful franchises against each other.  The Lakers and Celtics will get this epic duel started Thursday night in Boston.  Both teams took different, but equally impressive paths to get here. 

Boston is coming off of a storybook type of year.  They made the best off-season acquisitions of any NBA team before the 2008 season, bringing together somewhat of a dream team brining in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to combine with the already explosive Paul Pierce.  There was a lot of speculation, my favorite being that “there won’t be enough basketballs to go around”.  The Celtics have proved that theory couldn’t have been more wrong.  What pundits didn’t care to observe is that guys like Garnett and Allen have played long enough on unsuccessful teams to realize that if they are the only one on the team taking and making shots, they aren’t going to win.  The whole team has adopted a team mentality and with the star power that they have, this is a very dangerous Celtics squad.

The Lakers finally built a good team around the NBA’s best player, Kobe Bryant.  They’ve done some good work getting players like Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum (who was unfortunately hurt for the latter part of the season), but the real gem has been Pau Gasol.  Gasol is the type of guy that can take some pressure off Kobe because of his scoring ability, but he’s also a good defender, good rebounder, and moves the ball well.  The combination has worked superbly so far, but the Lakers face a big challenge ahead in the finals.

NBA Finals - Game 1 Pick:  Boston Celtics -2.5

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