The Spurs get a taste of the highest scorer in the league when they meet Kobe Bryant in an interesting NBA match-up.  While Bryant is having a great year, averaging 27.2 points a contest, it’s his supporting cast that’s a problem.  Bryant has been a bit of a one man show, but he is passing the ball more then usual, and it shows.  He is also leading the team with just under five assists a contest.  There are some bright spots among the younger players, namely Andrew Bynum, who leads the team with over ten rebounds a contest.  However, while they have a decent core of young players, they appear to be nowhere ready to face the best teams in the west.  Among those teams are the San Antonio Spurs, who are off to another great start.

The Washington Wizards are doing their best to hover right around the .500 mark despite there best player Gilbert Arenas being out for at least another two and a half months.  On the other hand you have the Miami Heat to appear to have all of their best players in order, but they are already more than ten games below .500.  In years past the Heat have a routine of just coasting through the playoffs before turning it on.  However, if they don’t begin to put their foot on the pedal a little harder then they will be coasting outside of a playoff position.

In Arenas’ absensce a few Wizards have been stepping it up, namely Caron Butler.  Butler is averaging a team high, and a career high, 23 points a contest.  The Wizards have finished .500 or better the last three seasons, after years of sitting near the bottom of the league.

Dwaye Wade is leading the Heat in scoring with 20 a game, but that’s been about the only bright spot.  Shaq is getting old, and can’t play with the same energy that made him one of the best centers of all time.  I predict the Wizards to win this contest until the Heat can show me a little something better.  Like I said, they have all of their players, they just aren’t meshing right now.  I’ll take the Wiz Kids in this one by about ten or more points. 

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