crooklyn

Las Vegas - Brooklyn trades away Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, so obviously, they have NO shot against Joel Embiid and the 76ers. Well, hold on just a minute. NO doubt that the Sixers are the better team, and WILL win this series, but we could see a handful of tight games. Throw out the last meeting up in New York when Philly crushed the Nets 134-105. NO one that mattered was on the floor. Embiid was in street clothes and so was James Harden. On the Brooklyn side, Mikal Bridges played zero minutes, while Spencer Dinwiddie, Nic Claxton, Seth Curry and Dorian Finney-Smith all watched from the bench. In the game before that, back in February, Embiid and Harden both played and put a combined total of 66 points on the board. The Nets also had Bridges, Dinwiddie, Claxton, and Dorian Finney-Smith on the floor. Final score: 76ers 101, Nets 98. Also found a very cool stat which says that underdogs in the first game of a full day of playoff games are 7-2 against the spread in the last nine years with five outright wins. Not blindly following that stat, but at +8.5, and buying the hook to +9, unless you're betting at the Golden Nugget in Vegas where the line has already moved to +9. Gonna open the wallet for the kids from CROOKLYN.

After putting the hoop winner into the bank, we're gonna run up to Fenway Park and take the Red Sox with Nick Pivetta over the Angels.

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