who ya got?

I'll take Okie City

Magic

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Not really a sleeper, but I can see the Bulls winning it all.

pacers!!!

After listening to some media, I would put the Spurs as my sleeper team, because nobody seems to expect them to make it.

However, if by sleeper, one means a team that will never have home court advantage, I would put the Nuggets up. They are Hollinger's #2 ranked team, which I guess as good as any reason to pick a sleeper.

by everyone elses definition, i'de say the spurs are a sleeper despite the best record in the west (by a long shot). stupid, isn't it?

but since i know better than to call them anything but the favorite/2nd favorite, i'm picking OKC. kevin durant can carry the team, westbrook is a star, and perkins can hold down the fort down low.

the team with the #1 record in the NBA cannot be a sleeper.

they might not be the current favorites, but they're certainly not a sleeper.

if a team gets knocked out, and they're a "sleeper", it's not a huge failure.

if the team with the #1 record in the NBA doesn't win the title, it's a huge failure of a season.

Portland

OKC

OKC isn't much of a sleeper either considering they are everyone's trendy pick to knock off LA.

I'd throw Boston in the sleeper mix because everyone has written them off. They've had a late-season slump, but they were the 2nd best team in the league earlier in the season, and I'm not sure they haven't been cruising here at the end.

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Hollinger's rankings always diss OKC, so I'm not surprised that he's got Denver potentially upsetting them.

How is it a "diss" when it is based on an unchanging mathematical formula?

semantics...diss, go against, do not like, whatever, his formulas are just one way of looking at it, and with a win tonight, the Thunder would go +7 on his win prediction for them this season.

Grizzlies

Magic.

I think the Spurs qualify as a sleeper considering the lack of coverage and lack of anyone in the national media giving them much of a chance. I would put the Mavericks along those same lines. No one expects either to go to the NBA Finals, so both are sleepers.

It's hard to consider OKC a "sleeper" when everyone is picking them to potentially upset the Lakers and go to the finals. If everyone is picking you as a "sleeper" pick at some point you cease to be a sleeper.

The spurs aren't a sleeper. The reason the spurs aren't being talked about is the fact that they're a boring team with zero interesting storylines.

It's bad for the league in general when the spurs make the finals. And with the lockout looming, it's even more vital that the NBA gets an exciting playoffs and finals since there's a decent chance of no basketball at all next year

my true sleeper picks are the Blazers, Grizzlies, nuggets, and sixers (with the likelyhood of an upset coming in that order)

I'm going with the Nuggets.

Dallas


j/k OKC

I guess the Mavs, with the 2nd best record in the West, are the biggest sleeper in the playoffs. Noone expects them to win and wouldn't be surprised if they were to exit in the first round.

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To those who spend more time here than I do, does simplebay always troll like this?

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seriously, run. get as far from here as you can. i can already see his retardedness washing over you. it's not too late.

See Deluxe. I told you Obi was obssessed with me.

a bird once **** on simplebays shoulder. simplebay cry/laughed at it and claimed he was in the birds dome. true story.

Denver nuggets

What a shocker...Simpletard derails another thread with his Spurs obsession. Such a f'ing clown.

what a shocker. puddy blames something on me that some spurs clown does. nice one, idiot.