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NBA playoffs betting: Three bets for Monday
The home team won all eight Game 1s, leaving the road teams to scramble for a win to avoid a difficult-to-overcome 0-2 hole. All eyes will be on Joel Embiid and his availability on Monday, after he tweaked his injured knee for the second straight game in his last outing. And of course, the Lakers […]
Continue readingNBA betting: Six picks for Saturday
Jalen Brunson over 10.5 assists and rebounds. Brunson continues to be the engine that drives the Knicks with a 32.4% usage rate this season. Brunson has cleared this line in four of his past five games and averaged 13.8 potential assists and 8.4 rebound chances per game over that time frame. Even though the Knicks […]
Continue readingFantasy basketball tips and projections for Friday
The best places to look for those are probably in Detroit, Portland, Washington, Houston, Utah, San Antonio, Charlotte and Atlanta. If you paid attention on Thursday’s podcast, we were all about Chimezie Metu and, later on, Marcus Sasser and they both kind of went off. Metu had 15 points, eight boards, three assists and three […]
Continue readingNBA offseason 2024: Schedule, deadlines, contract details
With many teams already doing deep dives into preparation for the 2024 NBA draft and this summer’s free agency, here’s a look at the league’s upcoming calendar, along with important deadlines for teams and players to exercise contract options. More than 30 players are in line for qualifying offers that would make them restricted free […]
Continue readingNBA betting: Five picks for Sunday
This breaks down nicely for betting purposes. Exactly half of the teams still have a lot to play for to determine their postseason seeding, while the other half are effectively done already. The sportsbooks know this, too, so there are some really big spreads on the board today. For the last time this regular season, […]
Continue readingFantasy basketball tips and projections for Sunday
Much like the last time I wrote this outlook (Friday), all 30 teams are in action Sunday, which is the final day of the regular season, so no one in the world should have trouble fielding a full fantasy team for the finale. However, doing it with productive players might be a little iffy, as […]
Continue readingSources: Colts’ DeForest Buckner gets 2-year, $46M extension
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have locked in another key piece of their core. In a continuation of moves made this spring, the Colts have signed star defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to an extension Monday. Sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that it’s a two-year deal for $46 million and runs through the 2026 season. The […]
Continue readingFantasy basketball tips and projections for Saturday
Pick the winners and crown your NBA champion! Create A Bracket Amid the drama of this final weekend of college hoops, the NBA presents a four-game Saturday slate defined by a series of cross-conference matchups. The day in professional basketball tips early with an afternoon meeting in California between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los […]
Continue readingFantasy basketball tips and projections for Sunday
Pick the winners and crown your NBA champion! Create A Bracket Streaming fantasy players shouldn’t be a huge issue on Fantasy Championship Sunday for many of us, as the slate is, as my buddy Zach Whigham would say, ‘slap full’ of 13 games and 26 teams, meaning that most lineups should be stacked as we […]
Continue readingNBA betting: Five picks for Sunday
The NBA will take Monday off, with no games scheduled on the night of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. As such, we’ve got a huge slate on Sunday with a whopping 13 games and 26 of 30 teams in action. The NBA season has only a week remaining, and fully half the league is […]
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