First Pick: D’Angelo Russell O23.5 Pts vs ATL (-114) – win
Fact #1: Hawks are allowing 28.3 PPG to the point guard position over their last seven games.
Fact #2: Russell has reached 24+ points in four of his last five.
Second Pick: Clint Capela O14.5 Pts vs MIN (-118) – win
Fact #1: T-Wolves are allowing a league-high 28.5 PPG to the center position over their last seven games.
Fact #2: Capela has eclipsed 15+ in two straight.
Third Pick: Jerami Grant O22.5 Pts vs MIA (-115)
Fact #1: The Heat without Jimmy Butler have struggled to guard the SF position and thus have allowed 25 PPG to that position over their last seven.
Fact #2: Grant has reached 23+ points in five of his last six.
Fourth Pick: Pascal Siakam O7.5 rebs vs DAL (-114)
Fact #1: The Mavs are allowing 12 rebounds/game to the PF position over their last seven.
Fact #2: Siakam has eclipsed 8 rebounds in four of his last six.
Fifth Pick: Kevin Durant O29.5 Pts vs MIL (-122)
Fact #1: Durant has eclipsed 30 points in three of his last four.
Fact #2: Seems like KD’s over hits just about every night + having Harden on the court should afford him the same room to operate that he enjoyed with Kyrie, if not more.
Recap: Took yesterday off from doing props for obvious reasons, but on Tuesday, Kyrie’s numbers without Durant were great, while Jokic decided to remind people that his scoring his better than his passing.
First Pick: Sixers -4 spread vs BKN (-112)
Fact #1: Durant (health protocols) is already out and apparently so is Kyrie Irving (personal reasons).
Fact #2: Seth Curry (ankle) is out for the Sixers.
Fact #3: I know this is the third game in four nights for Philly, but they’re rolling and I’m not sure how the Nets keep this within 4 with north of 50 points missing from the starting lineup this evening.
Second Pick: Joe Harris O2.5 made 3pters (+100)
Fact #1: The Sixers are allowing 27.6 PPG to the 2-guard position this season.
Fact #2: Harris has 3+ made 3s in three of his last six contests.
Third Pick: Kyle Anderson O13.5 pts vs CLE (-110)
Fact #1: Yes, I know I missed with him on Tuesday, but today is Thursday (lol).
Fact #2: The Cavs allow an average of 25.3 PPG to the PF position, which is the second-most in the Association.
Fact #3: Anderson has eclipsed 18+ in four of his last six.
Fourth Pick: D’Angelo Russell O22.5 pts vs POR (-110)
Fact #1: The Blazers are allowing a league-high 35.9 PPG to the point guard position — that’s all you need to know.
The amount of juice the NBA has provided since the season ended last week is just insane. Its been more entertaining than the NBA playoffs and even more so than the Finals. The NBA offseason is hands down the best in sports as GM’s continue to look around the league, see teams like Golden State, and just say fuck it lets reload.
In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby: “If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
I think that needs to be the new slogan of the NBA. If you’re not Golden State then your franchise might as well punt on the next 3-5 years. It sounds like a joke, BUT THATS WHAT TEAMS ARE DOING. Sure, there are teams like the Celtics who are technically within striking distance so I applaud Trader Danny’s efforts to improve this team as long as it does so without mortgaging the future. But even LeBron and the Cavs, the team thats been to the NBA Finals the last 3 years IN A ROW, seem to be panicking. Cleveland has been in talks for all the big names like Paul George and Jimmy Butler all sandwiched around kicking their own GM to the bricks.
As much as it sucks there is a goddamn Super Team standing between the Celtics and a title, I’m glad it at least gives the rest of the league the motivation to either completely blow things up and rebuild or just stockpile as many assets and big name players as possible.
It’s like the Elite Four at the end of Victory Road in Pokemon. An absolute nightmare to deal with so don’t even both walking down the road if you’re not ready. Level up, get your shit together and then go after the top dogs.
So yesterday we had Woj Bomb after Woj Bomb. Paul George told the Pacers after next season he’s out so now they’re looking to get whatever they can for PG-13. The Knicks are listening to offers for 21-year old stud Kristaps Porzingis and the Celtics are one of the teams in talks with NY. Jimmy Butler saying he’d rather not play in Cleveland so the C’s are still in on that rumor too. Dwight Howard got traded, minutes after dropping some fire jokes about NBA trades on his own Twitter account.
Then we got the Lakers trading D’Angelo Russell, the Clippers looking to deal DeAndre Jordan, all while we still have the NBA fucking Draft on Thursday night. God knows how many more trades there will be and how much more hot, hot heat Woj is going to be dropping on Twitter.
The 300s 