Who are going to be the NBA Playoffs stars? Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, that’s who – respectively of the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns. Because the Western Conference is where you see truly great basketball. All following a regular season in which Andrea Bargnani’s Toronto Raptors came out ahead of the battered New York Knicks and even of the New Jersey Nets.