First Round West Playoff Winners!

Lakers Eye Nuggets In Opening Round

BDG posted 4/17/2008 from www.clublakers.com

With the Dallas Mavericks’ victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night, the Nuggets were ensured the eighth seed in the Western Conference. Waiting for them at the top of the standings is a new and improved Laker team, holding homecourt advantage in the opening round for the first time since 2004. However, in perhaps the tightest race in conference history, the Nuggets don’t ...

Hardware Time

Amar283 posted 4/17/2008 from mvn.com

Cavalier Attitude's MVP choice? It's not LeBron James. It's not Kobe Bryant, either. CA shares its choices for the postseason awards show, starting with why Chris Paul of the Hornets should be this year's Most Valuable Player.

The Playoffs are Here

Deceptively Quick found this 4/17/2008 on slamonline.com

by Marcel Mutoni Goodbye social life! This year’s first round matchups are so bananas - do the kids still use that word? - that even the Eastern Conference is intriguing. Just take a look at some of the madness for yourselves: Atlanta ...

Hardwood Paroxysm Playoff Preview: Phoenix Suns

Bright Side Of The Sun: Front Page Posts found this 4/17/2008 on hardwoodparoxysm.blogspot.com

It's hard to keep track of everything you need to know about all the teams in the playoffs. So we thought we'd do a quick and dirty playoff preview with our favorite bloggers. We asked a simple 20 Question survey to bloggers from all of the playoff ...

NBA Playoffs 2008- Western Conference - First Round - New Orleans Hornets vs. Dallas Mavericks

Hornets247.com Blog found this 4/17/2008 on sports.espn.go.com

Eddie Jones - SG - Apr 12 Jones started in the place of the injured Josh Howard in Dallas' Saturday night loss to Portland. He scored 16 points on 6-7 shooting and added six assists. Josh Howard - SF - Apr 12 Howard (knee) sat out of Saturday's game ...