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  • By Willie Maye Special to The Christian Science Monitor. `Coach' Willie Maye is sports director at WILD radio in Boston. He has covered the NBA for the past 13 years.

THE Phoenix Suns had the league's best record this year and face the Los Angeles Lakers in first-round playoffs tonight. The Suns took the Lakers 5-0 in regular-season play; watch for them to make it eight straight.

The Charlotte Hornets are an upstart team; they made it into postseason play for the first time this year. Charlotte's first-round series against the Boston Celtics is being called "the young vs. the old," and the matchup to watch is rookie-of-the-year candidate Alonzo Mourning against the league's most senior player, Boston's Robert Parish.

But the team to beat is the two-time defending-champion Chicago Bulls, who meet Atlanta tonight. Chicago has some injured players, but it also has Michael Jordan, who led the league in scoring -- for the seventh year in a row.

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