If the pre-series altercations are any indication the Los Angeles-Sacramento series is bound to be a feisty one.  The teams are not set to go head to head until Saturday in Sacramento, but as Rich Hammond of the Daily News reports it does not stop them talking.

"We will win the next round," said Lakers forward Rick Fox, who was then asked whether he was guaranteeing a series victory over Sacramento. "A guarantee? I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it was true. I believe it, I believe it."

Sacramento will have home court advantage in the series, a fact which lead to Kings center Vlade Divac saying the Lakers would not win the series without home-court advantage, the very quote that Shaquille O?Neal found taped to his locker after the Lakers series-clinching win over the Spurs.  

"Somebody put that up there for me," O'Neal said of Divac's quote. "I hear everything and I see everything. I'm the police."

Robert Horry, however, doesn?t think it will be as easy as Fox states.

"It?s going to be tough," Lakers forward Robert Horry said. "Sacramento probably has the best team in basketball right now, they have home court and they've been playing well there all season. We're just going to go in there, play hard and try to get that first one.

"Right now, were struggling. Our main cog has stitches in his finger, a messed-up foot, a messed-up toe, so hopefully he can get a couple days rest."