1.   Obviously the Los Angeles Lakers heard all the people prematurely dissecting their Western Conference finals matchup with Portland and got disoriented.

2.   Somehow, somewhere people got the wrong idea about this Western Conference finals matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers.

3.   The charge is that brutal behavior by our man Matty occurred in the same conference finals matchup last May.

4.   Williams, who will next play Martina Hingis, remains on course for a possible prime-time finals matchup with her sister, Venus.

5.   This is the last finals matchup to be determined.