The NBA Playoffs have been a fairly uncompetitive affair this year, besides for the Oklahoma City/Los Angeles series and Boston/Cleveland, you probably won't be able to recall a matchup that you will remember by playoff time next year.
This has caused many people to immediately begin predicting a Celtics-Lakers Finals and removing themeselves from these Conference Finals matchups. While this may be true especially in the East (how is Vince Carter treating you Orlando?) I don't agree with the idea of writing off any chance of the Suns winning.
If you look back at the Lakers/Jazz series in the second round, Game 3 was in the Jazz' hands and if they won I guarantee you that series was going six. Which in my opinion is the required amount of games for a series to be deemed "memorable." And the Suns have a great shot of pushing the Lakers to the brink.
They have many of the elements of a team that can pull off an upset in a basketball series.
They have the gunning point guards in Goran Dragic and Steve Nash, who as San Antonio fans can tell you, can single handily win games by themselves if they get hot.
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