Game to pay attention to: Spurs vs. Lakers

San Antonio at Los Angeles Lakers Part of me - a big part of me - wants to point you toward Golden State and the Mavericks. Those two teams, even before the classic 2007 playoff series, have gone at it for years. People may not have been paying attention - remember this nonsense? It happened the same night as this brilliance - but the Warriors and Mavericks are natural enemies. Dog and cat stuff, here, lovelies. The problem with that is that the Warriors have about 1.75 players on their roster that recognize this enduring reality. Why? Because they're hurt. Too many injuries. Same reason (no Chris Paul(notes)) that I'm not staring straight at the Hornets and Magic. Lakers and Spurs? This goes back a while, as well. The Lakers used to own the Spurs. Made great Spurs teams timid. And yet, the two most underachieving Lakers teams of our lifetime - those 1999 and 2003 mugs - lost to the Spurs in the playoffs in series that weren't even close. Two TNT games, tonight, amongs...