quite a few teams out West playing well that weren't expected to do much this year....Utah, Memphis, Denver, GS...
figure the playoff spots go to ....LA, SA, Sac, Minn, Dallas - those 5 for sure....Houston should be #6 - that leaves two spots for the remaining teams...Seattle, with Ray Allen back, and a host of good shooters, should be a front-runner, but then you have the teams listed above playing well thus far, and Pheonix will have Amare back soon.....should be an interesting race for the last 2 spots....