Well, I was pretty close,

Brandon — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:16:04 -0500

Well, I was pretty close, anyway. I thought LeBron could give a little more fight than that, but the Spurs were great at shutting him down. Now it’s on to NBA trade speculation and the ESPN.com trade machine. The site (http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/trademachine) allows you to pick up to four teams and see if salaries would work under the cap for player trades, which comes in handy every couple of days or so when Kobe Bryant decides he wants out of LA again and again and again.

My favorite trade so far is a four-team deal with Indiana, Dallas, the Lakers and Minnesota. In this imaginary deal, the Wolves pick up Bryant from LA and Devon Harris of the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks pick up Randy Foye from the Wolves and Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown from LA. The Lakers Jermaine O’Neil from Indiana and a few other smaller players including Marko Jaric from Minnesota, while Indiana gets Dirk Nowitzki and parts.

It’s never going to happen, but I’d be happy if it did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is

Mathias Baden — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:22:55 -0500

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the matchup everyone wanted to see, and it's proved disappointing so far -- at least LeBron has. If you're going to be the King, you've got to propel your team to scoring 80-plus points. I'd be surprised if the Cavaliers make it to the sixth game now. I'm pretty sure the odds are against them even doing that, let alone winning the championship.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

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Well, I was pretty close,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is