<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Prediction is a fool's game. And predicting sports is no different. Sports Illustrated picked us, the Phoenix Suns, to win the NBA championship this year, which is great. Until you realize that they picked us having not seen any of the other teams play a regular-season game. Stuff like that also makes our job harder. We're among the hunted now, and we're not going to be sneaking up on anybody. The other teams feel disrespected because some magazine picked us to finish atop the heap. Damn sports mags. I don't read them, or the papers, or watch too much "SportsCenter." Forget that stuff. I need to stay focused. Hopefully, my teammates feel the same way. Don't get me wrong. It's an honor that people think so highly of us. What's more, a prediction like that can help raise the bar for us. We know the expectations. And since that night in May when we came up just short of the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals, we've been doing all we can to meet them. Of course, we've tried to enjoy ourselves in the process. What follows -- and what you'll read throughout this season -- is the fun behind what some consider to be our championship run. Not that I read that stuff.</div> http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?id=2637076
