访谈录 2009-05-19&05-22 NBA西部决赛湖人vs掘金前瞻

Most people, when you hear the Los Angeles Lakers are playing the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Final, probably think Denver, hey, they were the two seed out west. Don't forget that, Stewart’s got Michael Wilbon, Jon Barry, Hall of Famer Magic Johnson. It's what people expected if you're going just by seedings, Lakers, Nuggets one two seed, what you expect, Magic, from the series?

Well, I think it's gonna be an awesome 1 series, when you think of Denver Nuggets, look at Billups, Chauncey Billups, and you think about Carmelo Anthony, the scoring that they provide for their team and the leadership from Billups. It's amazing and that bench of the Denver Nuggets is just as strong as the Laker bench.

Well, if you haven't heard about the Denver Nuggets, sure you hear about them now, because they've been terrific 2 since Chauncey Billups came over for Allen Iverson, they've been one of the harder teams in the league and the Houston Rockets basically are weaker version of the Denver Nuggets. They're gonna play up-tempo style, they like to get after it, they are playing with unbelievable intensity 3, they are playing with a lot of confidence, they only lost two games thus far in the playoffs. They have talent, they have go-to guys, they've got every piece that a great team needs and they're gonna give the Lakers all they want in this series.

you know what I think about is point scored, I mean I don't know these teams can defend the other team, look at how potent 4 Denver is, we usually talk about Carmelo who is as good, as good a scorer from the four position right now as anybody in the league. Chauncey Billups ,J.R. Smith who can score 30 in the game off bench any time, I mention Nene yet, we haven’t mentioned the Nene, I mean the guard like Linas Kleiza, he is so deep down in the bench and buried now ,but in the series like this where teams can't guard each other. I think, Stewart, we’re talking about games high in hundreds, old-school games, you can see somebody in a 100 teams without overtime 5, so...so I'm looking forward to old fashioned western shootout.

Magic, how did playing Houston, how will that help the Lakers against the Nuggets?

Well, first of all, Denver Nuggets is a big, strong, physical team and what we saw from Chuck Hayes and some of the other guys, Scola. For Houston, they muscled the Lakers around, so they ex-prepare Gasol, Bynum, Odom for what they’re going to see in the Denver Nuggets series, so this is gonna be a ,like, like, we’re bound to say old western shootout. I think every game both teams will be over 100 points, you're gonna see up and down basketball, and beautiful basketball, and intense basketball. JB(Jon Barry), I won't be surprise  some fights broke out in the series, because that's how Denver likes  to play physical basketball.

Oh, they're physical, they're confident, and, and it should be a heck of series.

It’s been a long time for the Denver Nuggets. Last time they played in the Western Conference Final was 1985. As for the Lakers, this is their 6th Western Conference Final, just played under Phil Jackson, and Phil’s only coached the team for 9 seasons.