Sweet Sixteen (II): History has no King

At the other side of the bracket, competition goes merciless. The best teams in there play no games with those becoming an obstacle in their way to greatness.

And LeBron has been victimized.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shoots over Chris Bosh

Miami's super team has not been good enough to avoid defeat. Moreover, they were defeated in the worst way possible: getting swept. The author of this magnicide was no other than the 85' Lakers, leaded by two guys that are part of NBA history: Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Kabbar. The gold and purple team beats therefore LeBron, Wade, and Bosh; and gets them out of GOAT conversation.

So now that they move to the next round... who are they waiting for?

The couldn't miss an opportunity like this. That is not in their DNA. Lakers will meet the 07' Spurs in tournament quarterfinals. The Popovic-coached franchise beat Reggie Miller and his 98' Pacers in 7 games, after a dramatic series. Despite being up 3-2, Indiana lost its match ball opportunity in game 6 by 1 point, and the Spurs took the momentum to win the series with a stellar appareance of two great all stars: Tim Duncan (30pts 6reb) and Manu Ginobili (28pts 8reb).

In other match up of the tournament, 2011 Dallas Mavericks headed to quarterfinals as an inspired Nowitzki helped knocking out the underdog: the 2009 Houton Rockets. Yao Ming and T-Mac weren't able to upset the 2nd overall seed in the final bracket, and was eliminated as were the other 2 Houston representatives.

And in the last series we'll be talking about today, we got a new underdog: 1996 Seattle SuperSonics. Gary 'The Glove' Payton and Shawn Kemp rolled over the 2005 Spurs in 6 games, and therefore join Dallas Mavericks in next quarterfinals. Here is the bracket of how this final rounds are developing:

Bracket competition scores:

JJ_BracketNailer: 6 right winners

MarioB_88: 5 right winners

broncos23: 4 right winners

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