[kidcolin]

yeah.. I mean, obviously Dallas was the "best" by some metric, given their record. but the Spurs had the best expected w-l. They led the league in point differential, which is a pretty telling stat. Pop "rests" his starters because he's smart and because his team is good enough to crush the competition only getting 95 mins per game from Duncan/Manu/Parker. And they won it all. Crazy how that happens.