This week's top 10 (down to seven after three items quit at the starting blocks):

Fine finish to Finals leaves many questions

-7. Redemption. The NBA Finals finished up with three quality games (right after I ripped the four blowouts that started the series), and now the debate begins: Where do the Spurs rank among the all-time great teams? Is Robert Horry a hall-of-famer? What will happen to Larry Brown? Is Tim Duncan already the greatest power forward to ever play the game?

When you think of great teams, you think of the ones that won consecutive championships like the Lakers, Bulls and Celtics. San Antonio has three rings in seven years, with Duncan the only player on all three teams (which speaks to his greatness), so right now you probably can't put them on the same level of other dynasties.

But if they repeat next year, that position will warrant serious reconsideration.

Big Shot Rob should, I think, be in the Hall of Fame. He has been on six championship teams and been a key contributor on each. Of the already in or sure-fire hall-of-famers he's played with - Duncan, Jordan, Shaq/Kobe, Olajuwon/Drexler - only Duncan has won titles without the help of Horry.

He doesn't have spectacular numbers (not even all-star numbers, really) and his game is dependent on his defender leaving him open to double team the star, but he is still the one draining those 3s. He should get in as the Hall of Fame's first role player.

As for Brown, who knows? I would not at all be shocked to see Brown in the Cleveland front office, back on the Detroit bench, in New York with the Knicks or running the Flathead Valley Community College team.

Many pundits have already proclaimed Duncan as the greatest power forward ever, and I am not going to make a case against that idea, except to say that it still might be too early. Let's just wait until his career is over to make any proclamations.

-6. Speaking of debate … Who's your starting pitcher for the National League All-Stars? Dontrelle Willis is 12-2 with a 1.76 ERA and Roger Clemens is 6-3 with a 1.51 on a crappy Astros team. Willis has thrown more innings, Clemens has more strikeouts, but the D-Train has fewer walks.

I guess the tiebreaker is hits - Clemens has allowed 66, Willis 97. So, Roger it is.

-5. The teenagers are taking over (maybe). Two teenage amateurs - one 15, the other 17 - are tied for the lead at the U.S. Women's Open going into today's final round. And there's an 18-year-old pro just one shot back.

(What happens to the first place money if one of the amateurs does win? Does the USGA just pocket it, or does the second place finisher - assuming she's a pro - get the first place money?)

Michelle Wie (the 15-year-old) and Morgan Pressel (the 17-year-old) are both terrific stories, and Annika Sorenstam - still in the hunt for the Grand Slam - is just five shots back, the same deficit she overcame 10 years ago to win the U.S. Open.

It should all make for some compelling TV today, but is anyone watching? For some reason, Sorenstam's attempt at the Slam hasn't exactly caught the nation's attention.

-4. The enigma of 'Sheed. The funniest clip from Friday came from Detroit as the Pistons cleaned out their lockers to head home for the offseason.

Most players were transporting their belongings in boxes or nice bags. Except Rasheed Wallace, who had a giant green garbage sack slung over his shoulder, the kind you put the grass clippings in.

Wallace is the weirdest cat (to borrow his phraseology) I've ever encountered (except for maybe Tonya Harding). He made $18 million during his last season in Portland, yet drove a mid-1980s Ford Bronco.

He's a volatile sociopath on the court toward officials (and threatened one on the Rose Garden loading dock after a game), yet is extraordinarily generous with his time and money to charities.

He's had bad relationships with coaches and is a two-ton jerk with the media, yet is beloved by teammates and is by all accounts a dedicated, loving family man.

-3. Money well spent? There's a group in Washington that wants to build an 80,000-seat track for NASCAR near Seattle. I just don't see how this could possibly be successful.

The one Nextel Cup race a year would undoubtedly be a huge success, as long as NASCAR remains popular. But what do you do with a venue that large the rest of the year? There just isn't a big enough auto racing following in the Northwest to draw enough fans for lower-tier events to make a facility that large - with the associated maintenance costs - viable.

-2. A league and its union that get it. Just a couple of days after Generalissimo Stern told the union that a deal needed to get done soon to avoid a lengthy labor impasse, the two sides got together for some power negotiating sessions and reached a deal.

The NHL and its union, on the other hand, have been engaged in marathon sessions for on about six weeks now, with no deal in sight. And that's after the entire season was canceled.

You needn't look any further for the chief reason why the NBA is one of the big three pro sports and the NHL is fading fast into oblivion.

-1. On to more important matters. Since the NBA season is finished, and the draft is Tuesday, we can turn our attention to what really matters: Football.

Just five weeks to the start of preseason.

Andrew Hinkelman is a sports writer for The Daily Inter Lake. He can be reached at hink@dailyinterlake.com