As we’ve discussed throughout the season, we should leverage easily accessible indicators to help sift such busy slates. Leaning on injury reports and betting info to help direct us to the most actionable player pickups and the most fertile offensive climates. Who is missing from lineups can drive decisions, while point spreads and totals can […]
Continue readingStephen Curry over 35.5 points, rebounds and assists. Curry has cleared this line in three of his past five games and three consecutive road games against the Lakers. The Warriors enter Tuesday night in a must-win scenario as they look to gain home-court advantage in a potential head-to-head play-in matchup with Los Angeles next week. […]
Continue readingPick 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 readingThe 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 […]
Continue readingTwenty-four hours earlier, the Thunder had become the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, fueled by their young Big Three in Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams. The Suns, behind their own Big Three, were tied for sixth, just a game out of the play-in tournament. Two teams on opposite trajectories — one fighting […]
Continue readingKevin Durant over 32.5 points and rebounds Pick the winners and crown your NBA champion! Create A Bracket Jusuf Nurkic is dealing with left calf soreness and is a game-time decision. Both the Suns and Timberwolves are playoff-bound and fighting for improved seeding. Phoenix has one of the toughest schedules left in the league, so […]
Continue readingBoston, which won its 11th consecutive home game, improved to 60-16 on the season to notch its 14th 60-win season in franchise history. The only other franchise with at least 10 such seasons is the Lakers, who have 11, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The Celtics, who also were led by Jayson Tatum’s 24 […]
Continue readingGame 2 features the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Phoenix Suns. Donovan Mitchell missed Tuesday due to knee maintenance and Caris LeVert led the way with 26 points in a win at Utah, but I expect Mitchell to be back in action tonight. If Mitchell plays, don’t look for a repeat performance from LeVert. For the […]
Continue readingAs always, let’s dig deeper into the matchups to identify some good candidates to outperform expectation. Oklahoma City Thunder +10.5 (-115) at Boston Celtics (on ESPN) Pick the winners and crown your NBA champion! Create A Bracket Even for a team as great as the Celtics, this is a huge number to lay against a […]
Continue readingDespite that, they have competed with the Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves for one of the best records in the NBA. The Thunder, who face the Celtics on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN), lead the league in blocks while maintaining top-five status in points, field goal percentage and points differential. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, […]
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