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The Los Angeles Lakers’ uphill battle against defending champion Denver
LeBron James‘ proclamation as he got up from his cubby in the cramped visitor’s locker room inside Smoothie King Center and turned the corner towards the showers sounded more exasperated than excited. “I’m tired as f—!”, he said. “Oh my God!” Beating the New Orleans Pelicans in Tuesday’s play-in tournament game earned the 39-year-old James […]
Continue readingNBA betting: Three picks for Tuesday’s play-in games
Pick the winners and crown your NBA champion! Create A Bracket Trey Murphy III over 18.5 points, rebounds and assists (-130). Murphy has cleared this line in nine of his past 10 games, averaging 12.1 field goal attempts, 10.2 rebound chances and 5.0 potential assists per game over that span. He’s in a good spot […]
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 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 Tuesday
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 readingNBA betting: Six picks for Tuesday
Stephen 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 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 […]
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