lol there's way too many variables too make a prediction for a three-peat already...i think injury is the elephant in the room.
and i dont understand the rationale of it being an epic loss. they made it a game 7 and lost it by basically a quarter to a team considered to be the consensus favorite.
boston wasn't even supposed to make it past cleveland.
on the artest thing you have to live with that. when a player(kobe) can score 40 % of a teams points in a game, you'd think the idea was to have to make the other guys come up big. its safe to say he faced significantly less defensive pressure. but hey he made his shots so more power to him. i dont think the c's would trade the job they did on kobe to stop artest even with the loss.