Layups: ESPN’s Summer Championship Forecast
Posted by Neil Paine on September 17, 2009
With the kids back in school, football in full swing, and basketball season rapidly approaching, is it really even summer anymore, equinoxes be damned? Either way, ESPN closed out their offseason series recently by revealing who their panel of experts expected to cop the 2010 NBA title, along with some selective rationales for each choice. I'll give a hint about who they picked at #1: they play in the Staples Center (and good luck guessing which of that building's two tenants I'm referring to!). Meanwhile, in the early going of our projections here at BBR, it's pretty obvious that our pick would be the Cleveland Cavaliers. But we have not yet begun to roll out our NBA preview, so that's far from an official pick...