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Eastern Conference

(1) Cleveland vs (8) Chicago
It’s simply hard to imagine Chicago Bulls, who barely scraped by the Toronto Raptors into the playoff, beating the LeBrons. Bulls simply don’t have anyone who can guard LeBron James. Cavaliers are too tough inside: Brad Miller and Joakim Noah versus Shaquille O’Neal, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Anderson Verejao.

Have we forgotten Antawn Jamison? Wouldn’t he be excited to get into the playoffs with a title contender?

Bulls are nowhere nearly the team that last year nearly upset the Boston Celtics. They might win one close game at home, but look for Cavs to finish this one early.

(2) Orlando vs (7) Charlotte
Can we expect a franchise in its inaugural playoff series to throw of a team that has been arguably the best in the league since the All-Star break? Bobcats might take one game as they did in the season series with the Magic, but nothing beyond that.

(3) Atlanta vs (6) Milwaukee
Milwaukee Bucks were a team that no one wanted to play, but as Andrew Bogut hit the floor and injured his hand, so did the chances of Milwaukee progressing past the first found of playoffs. Look to the last meeting between these two teams and how the Bogutless Bucks handled the Hawks to show how the series will progress. And imagine how scary Bucks would have been with healthy Bogut and Michael Redd.

(4) Celtics vs (5) Miami Heat
Old legs of the Boston Celtics are on the verge of breaking from the surmounting pressures of the NBA grind. This series reminds me of 80’s Bulls/Pistons battles, Heat have their Michael Jordan in Dwayne Wade going against Pistons who are the Celtics, but with a lot more mileage on their feet.

Sure would be nice for the C’s to win another title and built somehow on the resurgence of the Celtics lore. But, the pieces of the puzzle were put together just a tad bit late.

The longer the series goes, more chances for the Heat to pull off an upset.

It would be AWESOME if the New Jersey Nets are able to land Chris Bosh by the trading deadline and if they are able to land him earlier then it would be so much more AWESOME. They might even make the playoffs. Well, I don’t know about that.

Still, getting Chris Bosh would not only transform Nets this season, but it will also set them up for next season…yep, LeBron sweepstakes!

Although I doubt that Nets will be able to get Bosh on the cheap (look so far that only Brook Lopez is the only untradeable player on the team), acquiring the unhappy Raptor is likely to convince LeBron if he ever chose not to resign with Cleveland.

Considering that Bosh wants to play for a contender, what are the chances that Bosh would want to come over to a team that so far only won only three games this season?

(I really, really, really hope that he does)

I just hope that Nets can lure Bosh with the promise of getting better as a team and that playing in New York (soon the Nets are going to move to Brooklyn…finally) is a better payoff than playing anywhere else (Knicks better not swoop in on Bosh).