(Jerry) Stackhouse kinda, sorta, tried to pick the Hawks to win the NBA Finals, but not even he could seriously do it.

Do you think anybody on the Celtics would be caught dead picking another team to win the NBA Finals? Not in a million years.

But nonetheless, here’s Stackhouse’s quote at the bottom of his blog:

“I am clearly planning for Atlanta to be in the Finals — if I put on my analyst hat, however, if we are looking at the personnel and everything that’s going on during these playoffs, I have to take Miami to win it all. Miami is the favorite to come out of the East, and I’m not counting out the Lakers in the West the way Ramon Sessions and Kobe Bryant are playing.”

via Jimmy Toscano of CSNNE.com