You exhibit remarkable restraint in your gloating; Johnny, I am most pleasantly surprised!
I have to agree with you though, that the Spurs seem to be the clearcut favourites now, if only for the enormous wave of confidence they will be riding for the remainder of the millenium. Yet. I have started to contemplate if the Nets could not match up rather well with them. The Spurs should have trouble containing Kidd and if it then turned out that Kenyon Martin, though undersized, was able to do a much better defensive job on Duncan than the Lakers managed ... we shall see.