I've heard that Kevin Garnett was looking kind of hobbled towards the end of the Orlando series so I'm not that sure i would bet on the Celts. Also LA is known as a pretty good home team. The Celtics did a good job of exposing how one dimensional most of the teams in the East are. Orlando relies on three point shooting which has a tendency to give out as your legs give out late in the season. Also people are less lazy defending the perimeter in the playoffs. Cleveland & Miami are both one man teams. The Lakers have several good players. I think the key player in this matchup will be Rondo. I'm not really sure LA has anybody to guard him and he could go hog wild breaking this series open. He is my sleeper pick as finals MVP. I also think LA will be very very motivated Game 1 to erase their embarrassing defeat last time around.
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