kobe wants out

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They were pretty damn close to this year. Nash couldn't play at end of game 1. Game 5 was pretty close despite amare and diaw's absense. Bell improved a lot. You can argue that game 4 was given to the suns by the refs, but spurs had calls going thier way in game 3.

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Yeah, the people spouting about how they aren't built to win it all, aren't as good as the Spurs etc. (Sickboy you're a troll so I don't mean you) seem to conveniently ignore the Nash injury or the suspensions that probably cost them one or possibly both games. They take one of those and there's a game 7 in front of a packed, explosive home crowd. Advantage Suns, at the very least, and then they have the Jazz roll over the next round.

One could argue that Dirk is so effed in the head by now that the Mavs need to put someone alongside him now in order to win it all. Not sure that I believe that but the Suns don't have such a problem: Nash has a good reputation as a big-game player and the Suns did a MUCH better job this year closing out games down the stretch. Thus they don't have any extra bogeymen other than age, injury, and suspensions.

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If Amare gets better at playing defense and Nash plays the same without any injuries then they have a decent shot but they still are not anywhere close to the fav by any means.

I'll always take the Spurs over the Suns in a 7 game series because the Spurs will force the Suns to play their style of ball which puts the Suns at a big disadvantage. They also have Tim Duncan.

The Suns with Kobe are the clear favorite to win it all. In fact they would be an overwhelming favorite...and they would be the favorite for like the next 5 years.

The Suns have 2 maybe 3 years left and then they are FUBAR sans Nash. No way Barbosa can ever take over that role unless some miracle happens.