Someone please shoot me! I just learned something last night: NEVER DOUBT THE SPURS! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, AND NEVER! One word for this team: DYNASTY! It doesn't matter how good a team appears to be or how good they are playing in a series. You just don't make the playoffs one year and roll to a championship. It's an unwritten rule that you must lose in the playoffs before you have a chance to win a title or even go deep in the playoffs. Very rarely do you see a team go deep without that previous experience (As BP said, you must know how to lose in order to win) . The Celtics are a different case because the makeup of that team changed overnight and the East is mostly junk. The C's are not going to win the title this year, though. At this point, I would take the other three over Boston to win the title. On that note, we move forward.

Play:

DETROIT +4.5 (too much rest for the Pistons? I don't think so; another grueling seven game series for the C's will surely slow them down in this game; the Pistons will take care of business against a fatigued Boston team in Game 1)

Series Play:

DETROIT +120 (back-to-back grueling seven game series will do in the Celtics in this round; much more playoff experience with this Pistons team will vault them into the Finals this year)

Series Prediction:

Pistons in 6