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Kings?Blazers?Mavericks? Forget it -- the only team with a chance to unthrone the Lakers is the San Antonio Spurs. And that second-round series will likely be decided by a couple of injuries.

San Antonio and Dallas are two of the best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.

It's odds & ends week as the basketball playoffs (college and pro) approach.

Our readers talk back.

Coach pretty much stays out of political discussions these days -- but did you catch our president at the Olympics the other night? What a doofus!

Mark Cuban has transformed the once-pathetic Dallas Mavericks into an elite NBA squad -- but they're not quite there yet.

As the NBAplayoffs wind toward their conclusion, Coach is struck by how bland the announcers still are.

To those who think the NBA is just a pale, slow-motion shadow of its former self, Coach says: Take another look; the running game is back, and you need only look at the eight surviving playoff teams to see it.

Every Joe Fan thinks he could run a sports franchise -- and maybe he's right. After all, there are plenty of examples of how easy it is to run one badly.

In a very boring weekend, the very lowest point is watching the UT men's basketball team get thumped.

Dennis Miller on MNF? Who cares? In other news: The Spurs and Heat are the NBA's big winners in the free-agent sweepstakes, and the Cowboys -- despite what you may be reading elsewhere -- will continue to slide.

The mid-summer drought in traditional sports is on (the Olympics don't count). Also, Monday Night Football will try not to suck so bad; Mike Tyson's a bore, and Sampras and Agassi may be getting too old.

The media has dismissed both Latrell Sprewell and Allen Iverson as bad citizens, but that says more about the media than it does about the two young stars.

David Stern knows less about fixing the NBA than Coach knows about fixing a car.

The San Antonio Spurs, left for dead around mid-season, are still very much alive, and a good underdog bet for the upcoming NBA playoffs.

A young woman learns to navigate the hoops on and off the court.

Daylight Savings is a bummer, but Austin's hosting of the NCAAs was an upper. And as the NBA regular season winds down, disappointments outnumber pleasant suprises, but the Lakers are a big, big, exception.

Coach postulates that free-throw percentage determines longevity in the NCAAtournament, bitches about concession food at Frank Erwin Center.

Gary Bradley ponders the significance of his proposed settlement agreement with the city of Austin.

The American propensity to forgive its athletic heroes is both distressing and lamentable.