NBA Playoffs 2011: Los Angeles Lakers/Kobe Bryant vs Miami Heat/Lebron James?

This is the year. Do not mess this up Lakers. Do not mess this up Heat.

The Lakers will of course rebound and tie that series up, hopefully?

On the road they've played better many nights than at home, and who will they have to beat to play Miami? Memphis or Oklahoma City? Game, set, match.

On the other hand, the Bulls, who have a limited offensive attack as it is, have their hands full with the front line of Atlanta who may just steal that series.

Derrick Rose needs one more big gun to be considered a NBA Finals threat, and the Heat will beat Atlanta in a six or seven game series with not a lot of difficulty.

All you have to do Miami, is get on that plane to Boston and win one game there.

Oh, by the way, the Celtic's team bus was robbed during its stay in Miami, and many players bling and cash came up missing.

An added bit of intrigue leading up to one of the biggest television NBA Finals ratings ever, imagined with arguably the two best players in the league, squaring off against one another at last.

If the Celtics don't spoil the party being all angry and mad, and the referees keep calling 38 more fouls on the Celtic's than the Heat, then the Celtics will finally get the dream match-up all have been hoping for.

Lakers in seven in the Finals.

Thomas Moreland