Train's NBA Predictions '05-'06 Edition

Train (pictured in his natural state) out in H-Town, while not pretending to like baseball, sends his NBA predictions...

T-Mac is MVP. Rockets win bring it home... (My living in Houston is not a factor in any predictions and will not skew my judgement of the facts).

HOU beats PHX in the Western Conf. Finals... Amare will make every player he faces in the playoffs his personal whipping boy, including Duncan and Yao... but Mac averages 50ppg in the WCFs, winning Finals MVP. Rockets bring it home...

Clippers will be the 5th seed in the West...
Seattle dismantles its team after abysmal season...
Memphis... ... ...

In the East, Lebron will--as a personal display of consistency--have a third consecutive breakout-but-not-quite-Hall-of-Fame year with the help of Larry Hughes but it will end again with no playoffs when King James fractures a cheek bone against the backboard while overextending for an alley-oop thrown by Hughes. Hughes will be vilified by the Cleveland fans and accused of a jealous scheme. He will be asked to leave the team indefinitely. Fans will ask if Lebron is cursed.

Shaq will end frontcourt mate Antoine Walker's career in a fight in retaliation to a vague Walker reference to Kobe Bryant after a tough loss... Miami never recovers...

Shaq retires and joins the Miami SWAT team... he saves the city of Miami $20,000 on battering rams and rescue cranes the following year. Wade decides to fill Shaq's other shoes by acting.... he receives rave reviews for his performance in New Jack City 2: New Jacks vs. OGs. Dwayne Wade also retires after the '05-'06 season and moves to New York to pursue a serious acting career...

To increase ticket sales, the Carolina Bobcats... no Cincinatti... no Charlotte Hornets--Bobcats will break into song and dance after every three pointer made at home. The Horncats will release Kareem Rush and Jake Voskuhl to make way for Broadway veterans Bernadette Peters and Daphne Rubin-Vega...

Suprise teams... don't ask me how they will suprise you... good or bad, they will surprise you... Chicago, New Jersey, Golden State... maybe Portland... maybe not.

Ben Gordon, Sarunas Jasikevicius, VC, Ron-Ron, Yao and Skip will be All-Stars...

KG, Pau Gasol, Mike Bibby, and Gilbert Arenas will be on different teams next year...

That is all I see... for now.