This year's playoffs gave us a good glimpse of what to expect next year. I see in the east the cavs and wizards becoming serious contenders, while detroit continues to slip. The Heat without ZO and payton will still be the best team in the east, it'll just be harder to get back to the finals(notice i said get back) In the west, I'm rootin' for the lakes and clips to advance at least to the conf finals, Mavs will the best team out there, but the suns will be oh sooo badass with the return of amare (man i can't wait to see him embarass duncan again) Unless KG goes to the mavs, i don't see him making any other team automatic contenders for a title. Next years MVP will probably be either Lebron/Kobe/Wade, these are the 3 best players in the league.