Speaking of the Lakers and the Spurs, the current Western first round match ups look great.
Spurs vs Lakers
OKC vs Houston
LA Clippers vs Golden State
Denver vs Memphis
ALL of those are RIDICULOUS. I do like Utah and Dallas a lot more than the Lakers from a "watchability" stand point, but seeing the Spurs sweep the Lakers would be pretty great in a schadenfreude kind of way. As much as I love the Jazz lately, I really don't think they would fair much better against the Spurs. I think Dirk has something left in him though, so if we got a Spurs/Mavs matchup again I wouldn't exactly be complaining.
Too bad the East is going to be pretty bad, but Celtics/Knicks should be pretty good (as long as we win) and Brooklyn/Chicago should be watchable.