Wasting your money mate. No one's going to beat the Lakers this year.

There's no way the Heat are winning the Championship this year. Not with 2 rookies being significant pieces in their team. Couple of years, if they can keep that nucleus, maybe the will contend. You're better off using your money as toilet paper.

I do like the Jazz, though! Williams is as good as CP3 (he just doesn't have the ball in his hands 80% of the time), add Boozer, Kirilenko, Brewer (not that good I know, but super athletic and a decent defender), Millsapp off the bench, Harpring for hardness off the bench, their centre (brain fade!) who has had a great season, Korver for bench scoring and they have to be an outside chance.. not having home court will hurt them. Sloan, too, is a god. And with Larry H Miller's passing, they have some emotional motivation too...

Lakers Celtics maybe Cavs and Spurs are legit, and rest wouldnt matter if they were paying $1000 not going to be worth the $1 you put on.

I'm with Nino. Best value there right now is probably the Spurs at $13 and I don't know that I'd even chance that.

Your wasting your money on miami, wades good but he aint that good.
Eastern finals are gona be a Cleveland Boston afair.
LA are gona be tough to beat in the west.

The last time the won they had a much better O'Neal...

And there were no super-teams (i.e. Lakers and Celtics).

Sure, the Spurs were good, but that's because Tim Duncan is a robot, and Ginobili and Parker are Flop1 and Flop2

Heat are a dangerous team in the first round, but i'd give them no chance of taking the title.

Miami could make the second round by beating the Hawks but after that they will face Boston or Cleveland. I think they would win only one game (two tops) against either of those teams.

As many have said already, only four teams can win it: Lakers, Spurs, Celtics or Cavs

The heat can beat anyone on a given day, but Wade has to light it up. That won't hold for a 7 game series.

I agree, smart money is on the Spurs. You still have Duncan playing at about 90% of his peak, and he is the greatest power forward of all time. You have Ginobili who is in the top 5 clutch players in the league right now. And Parker who can light it up. I just get the feeling they need one or two more pieces to make a real run at it.

If they had traded for Carter, they would challenge the Lakers.

Wade can light it up for extended periods, ala 4 career games in a row in their 2006 finals run.

Lets look at the Eastern Competition:

Boston
They have lost Posey, Cassell and PJ Brown from their Championship team.... 3 very capable players, they added Miki Moore and possibly Starbury.... neither of these two will contribute positively / possibly negatively. KG is out with a knee for a few weeks, how well will he come back?

Cleveland
They have added Mo which has been a huge boost but Big Ben has just broken his leg and despite not being an offensive threat was by far their best interior defender, they will miss him more than they missed Z when he was out.

You guys get too caught up with early / mid season form..... I say Miami are heating up at the right end of the season, I'm not saying they are a lock, far from it in fact, Im saying at $81 they are worth a small wager.