This whole WWE vs. the Denver Nuggets scheduling debacle can only end one way.

A tag-team steel cage, hardcore match with Mark Cuban and Vince McMahon teaming up to take on the team of Nuggetsforward Kenyon Martin and Denver owner Stan Kroenke in a winner-take-all brawl for control of the Pepsi Center.

If the team of Cuban/McMahon wins, Cuban gets to own the Pepsi Center and McMahon will get to host Monday Night Raw in the Pepsi Center however many times he wants.

If the duo of Martin and Kroenke wins, McMahon will be banned from the state of Colorado forever and Cuban must apologize to Martin’s mother and to Martin for calling him a “thug”or a “punk” and he must do it face-to-face in the middle of that very ring and not via blog or Twitter.

Now, that would be some darn good TV.

Instead though, we could be given another Stan-Van meltdown under pressure. We could be given another former Duke standout “trying” to shut down Kobe. We could be given another sweep from the LeBrons as the Cavaliers try to march through the postseason unbeaten.

Instead of getting a tag-team wrestling match, we could very well be given the matchup everyone has been waiting to see all season long in the NBA Finals.

Kobe vs. LeBron.

Winner take all.

That, too, would be some pretty entertaining TV.

But will it happen?

Find out in my predictions of the conference finals of the NBA Playoffs, with my

Eastern pick today and the West pick coming on Thursday.

Eastern Conference Finals
#3 Orlando Magic vs. #1 Cleveland Cavaliers
Orlando Magic
OK, so they ended the reign of the defending champions, beating the injured and tired Boston Celtics in seven games. So, they’re 3-0 when someone calls out the coach for making terrible decisions down the stretch. So, they rallied to win the final two games after trailing to Boston 3-2.

Does this mean that they’re going to be able to stop LeBron and the Cavaliers?

No.

The Magic did win two of those four games on the road and that serves them well considering they’re going to be forced to be in Cleveland for the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals. I think if Dwight Howard can be the superstar he’s supposed to be and if Hedo Turkoglu can continue hitting shots the way he did in Game 7 in Boston, then the Magic could possibly steal a game in Cleveland.

They won’t, though.

This series will be typical Orlando Magic basketball. They’ll build a big lead in Cleveland early in the game and then they’ll blow it late in the game. Ask the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers, they’ve all witnessed it.

It’s time to see just how good of a coach Stan Van Gundy really is. If he fails to get Howard the ball again in the crucial moments of a pivotal game, the Magic will lose badly. If Stan-Van wants to prove Shaquille O’Neal wrong and prove that he’s not the “master of panic,” he better show it in this series and make some smart decisions, like getting Howard more than 10 shots in a game.

Cleveland Cavaliers
There’s not much to say about the Cavaliers that hasn’t already been said.

Considering how they haven’t played in forever, they’ll be very well-rested against a team that had to travel to win a seventh game in Boston and now has to travel to Ohio for the first game of this series.

And that bodes well for the Cavaliers.

Look, there’s one reason why this team is 8-0 thus far in the playoffs.

And his name is LeBron James.

Against the Pistons, he was good. Against the Hawks, he was even better.

Now that he’s playing on tons of rest, I’m expecting him to be sensational in his second appearance in the conference finals.

This is a team that lost just twice at home during the regular season. This is a team that has played much of these playoffs without LeBron in the fourth quarter. This is a team that has won every playoff game by double figures.

While I’m not predicting a sweep for the Cavaliers, I still think they will be the team representing the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals.

Prediction: Cavs in six

But who will Cleveland play?

Check back tomorrow.