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I, for one, am glad this series starts in New Orleans.  This gives the Spurs the opportunity to put the fear of God in them right off the bat.  A loss in game 1 and the story line for the whole series begins to write itself:  the Hornets lack playoff experience and the Spurs know how to turn it up in the postseason.  Whether or not either of those ideas are true is ...
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Hornets-Spurs: Saturday News Wrap
Hornets247.com Blog — ... down on the Hornets actually. Out of a panel of ten, only John Hollinger picks New Orleans to win this series. But then nobody expected me to be a fabulous dancer either, and we all know how that turned out. More predictions, this time courtesy of CBSSports.com. Only one of their five "experts" expects the Hornets to win. Worth noting that four of the same five picked the Hornets to beat the Mavs in the first round. Matthew Powell of super-biased Spurs blog Pounding the Rock... I, for one, am glad this series starts in New ...

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