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   The NBA season officially started last night with 3 games, and the first full night of games starts off tonight. Instead of giving a team by team breakdown like everyone else (and due to the fact I am not prepared to do so), I'll give you a little condensed "most-likely-to" list.
   So without further ado, welcome to the most anticipated season in NBA history.

Western Conference

Most likely to sneak up on everyone and win it all: Los Angles Lakers
   Best Player in the World (arguably): Check. Back-to-Back Champions: Check. Coach with the most Championships ever: Check. They aren't surprising anyone, but every major media is focusing on the East this year. With all the publicity going to Amare and the Knicks,  LeBron and his South Beach buddies, and even the stinking Hawks, Kobe is still Kobe.
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Team/ Player to make the jump from wow, to WOW: KD and OKC
   In case you were sleeping, the youngest team in the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder (That's the SuperSonics, fyi), lead by young pup Kevin Durant took the defending Champion Lakers to a 7 game series in last years playoffs. The home game atmosphere was enough to make you say things frowned upon by your pastor. But when you realize the leader of this team is 22 years old, you start to really look forward to this season. The very anti-LeBron the league needs right now, KD and other youngsters like Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green, along with one of the deepest benches might make adjectives ineffective.



 
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   The coach knows it, "Overall, John kind of led us". The star knows it, "He's batman, I'm Robin". It seems that everyone knows that the future of the Wizards is no longer Gilbert Arenas, but is rookie John Wall.
     The former star, Arenas, used to be so much what makes John Wall, John Wall. Marketable, exciting, fun-loving. But the former agent Zero has pulled a Joaquin Phoenix and grown a beard, changed numbers, and even stopped smiling. A few years ago, before the gun fiasco and the injury, could you image Gilbert saying, “I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn’t matter what floor I’m on.”? He is hardly the same person as he used to be.
     Having a young stud like John Wall behind you doesn't help either. The teacher's plans seem to be: “Teach John (Wall) the ins and outs of the game and then eventually go on and move on, and I’m on my way,”
     It appears that Arenas' stay in DC is slowly coming to an end, and strangely, he is okay with that. "There's few players that stay in the same city, so right now the city is John's. I'm not here to fight anybody. I'm here to play alongside of him" The strange, sad, saga continues...