2010 NBA Playoff Previews News

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FanHouse Preview: Mavericks vs. Spurs

Shoals and Ziller preview each NBA playoff series. Old meets older in the war of Texas's survivors. The Mavericks boldly dispatched San Antonio last season -- in an odd year, no less! (Backing to drawing board for all those wizards using coincidence in place of analysis. Maybe look into bone throwing?) How...

Fanhouse Preview: Lakers vs. Thunder

Shoals and Ziller preview each NBA playoff series. Did the Lakers avoid disaster by drawing Oklahoma City's youth corps instead of a veteran unit? The mind says yes, but the heart watches Kevin Durant go bonkers, Russell Westbrook get religion and Serge Ibaka get nasty and wants to believe. It's like Galileo versus the...

FanHouse Preview: Nuggets vs. Jazz

Shoals and Ziller preview each NBA playoff series. The battle for the Rocky Mountains sets up as the league's most promising first round battle, with two (mostly) healthy teams and enough stars to go around. It's like the old Mavericks-Rockets battles of the early Aughts -- two teams just good enough to put the devil in...

FanHouse Preview: Suns vs. Blazers

Shoals and Ziller preview each NBA playoff series. The Blazers will miss Brandon Roy, but the Suns still miss Shawn Marion, so get over it, Oregon! Despite devastating news that Roy must leap into that surgical void (devastating even for a neutral fan), there's plenty of fun to be had between the Suns and Blazers. Just...

FanHouse Preview: Hawks vs. Bucks

Shoals and Ziller preview each NBA playoff series. Let's get this out of the way first: Were Andrew Bogut alive and well, this series would be a prime tangle, maybe the most sex (not sexiest) series of the opening round. As it is, the Hawks have a chance to continue proving that they're very, very good -- old...