Tonight, the Cavs kick off another season, and for the first time since I can remember there is talk of a run at a conference championship.
LeBron (who should be trying for his second in a row, no thanks to Steve Nash's blatant theft) will--barring injury--be the MVP of the league this year. He was last year, in my opinion, and he's only going to get better at the ripe old age of 21-going-on-22.
The Pistons have taken a step backward. Shaq has requited himself with another championship, and (combined with the Heat's lack of a point guard at present) will push the Heat back to the pack. That leaves a group of the Cavs, Nets, and Bulls as potential upstart threats in the East to the two prior stalwarts. Of those three, the Cavs are best suited1 to win a playoff series against the Pistons/Heat due to their interior presence with Ilgauskas (assuming he actually shows up this year in the post-season), Verajao, and Gooden (if he grows a pair).
And, when you have the best player in the league, that doesn't hurt.
Tonight at 7:00 PM against the Wizards, it begins again. And I, as an admitted total band-wagon fan2, will be watching.
1. Assuming, that is, that the Cavs play the same defense that they did in the Pistons series this past spring for an entire season.
2. If it didn't involve LeBron James or Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, Larry Nance, Craig Ehlo, and Hot Rod Williams, I didn't follow it. Guilty as charged.
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