[tps_title]Which team will win the NBA Finals and be named the NBA Champions?[/tps_title]
MACIAS: Oklahoma City Thunder. LeBron who? Kevin Durant, MVP!
CREASMAN: This would be a lot closer if the question was Miami Heat vs. the field. I might take the field…but still probably not. Miami has the greatest living athlete, a top 5 coach, two and a half other good to great basketball players, and several solid role players. It would take a catastrophe to keep them out of the finals.
At that point anything can happen, but the most likely thing is that the best team assembled in a long time goes home with a third straight NBA Championship.
BITANGA: The Miami Heat will three-peat. It just has a nice ring to it. It’s the safest bet to make, although I can also see the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder or Los Angeles Clippers taking it all even though they have slimmer chances in comparison to the Heat. There are no real threats in the Eastern Conference, so the Heat will be more rested to take on whoever is coming out of the war-zone that is the Western Conference playoffs. Lebron James is having another stellar season, and he alone makes the Heat the number one team to beat. However, Dwayne Wade is a key factor in making the team nearly unbeatable. Wade has missed 28 games this season, and most of the time those were rest days to reduce the wear and tear on his knees to save them for the playoffs. Right now, Wade’s looking healthy and ready for battle.
MOHAMED: Well technically this question is a bit of a misnomer because by definition, Monta Ellis wins it all, but going past that technicality, I’ll pick the Spurs for everything I described earlier, plus I feel either the Heat or Pacers of this year are a worse team that what the 2013 Heat were while the Spurs are humming in a Spursian like fashion, nearly akin to what we saw from them two years ago.