NBA Playoff Predictions

82 games. 7 months of hard work and dedication. The NBA playoffs can be found at the summit of a grueling climb that is the regular season, but for those teams that make it to the top, the descent is just as difficult. Teams like the Pistons and Sixers and Mavs and Hornets deserve applause, but their future does not hold a NBA Finals appearance. This year there are a few teams capable of achieving NBA history, of obtaining the championship trophy. To me it comes down to 4. 4 teams who have seemed to place themselves above all other teams with teamwork, all star players, and a leader who won't give up. I'm talking about the Celtics, who you can bet will bring their gritty style and mental fortitude into every game. Then there are Kobe Bryant's Lakers, much more than a one man show, but no one can doubt Kobe's fierce edge when it comes to playoff competition. We have the King, Lebron James, but in order to be a king one must have a crown, and if not a crown then a big golden basketball, and so he will enter into this post season surrounded by talent and driven to be the best. Finally, and obviously, we have Greg Ostertag, whose fearsome composure, man child like attributes, and serial killer mentality make him a force to be reckoned with. So, I am sticking with my pre-season pick to win it all, and hereby name Greg Ostertag 2009 NBA Champion. The entity that he is, is much more than a beautiful composition of skin, bones, and muscle, for he possesses within him a calling for greater things, and there is nothing greater than winning the Finals. He will no doubt tea-bag, undercut, posterize, sodomize, charge, take a charge, dunk on another white guy, threaten to punch a ref, and much much more on his way to the Finals. And when he steps onto the court expect him to do even more, because he is Greg Ostertag, and he is basketball.

BP