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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS |
Contact AC at ac@wagercom.com
02/07/04 Week 15 Free NBA Picks Against the Spread
I am excited to announce the addition of our new NBA Basketball expert analyst AC Titticock. While leafing through resumes prior to selecting our new NBA Basketball gambling expert it became clear that AC was the man for the job. Not only did his analysis come across entertaining but it was clear he knew the NBA and about betting on basketball. I am confident you will find his outlook on the NBA extremely useful especially when it comes to his weekly free NBA Basketball picks against the spread. AC will be providing us with a weekly outlook and his free NBA Basketball picks on some of the weekend games each Friday and sometimes Saturday as well.
AC has started the NBA betting season with a 47% winning percentage against the spread on his NBA basketball picks after 96 games.
NBA BASKETBALL WEEK 15
The NBA announced their All-Star teams this week and LeDong was left off of it while the fans voted in Vince “I have no heart” Carter. What a shame. After the snub, LeDong dropped 32 on Shaq in a losing effort teaching all of us a lesson, it’s LeDong’s world and we’re all just along for the ride. I guess the most entertaining thing about all-star weekend will be wondering what Christina Aguilera will do during halftime while she is lipsynching to her crappy songs. I’m hoping a three-way with Nelly Furtado and Beyonce (the other entertainment) breaks out but unfortunately I think we will be just subjected to her crappy music. Speaking of crappy music, who knew Michael Jackson had such big boobs? That was Michael during the superbowl, right (and yes I used the word crappy in 3 consecutive sentences)?
Anyway, I’m sitting here waiting to get rejected by the 3.5 million companies I interviewed with this week for a summer internship (apparently “WACC” jokes aren’t that funny) and I’m watching the Globetrotters first appearance on ABC’s Wide World of Sports on the Classic Sports Channel. First of all, who would play for the Washington Generals? This makes no sense, it’s like signing a letter of intent to play basketball at Northwestern (come on Carmody, recruit). Secondly, what were people thinking back then? This game is about as entertaining as watching Oprah when she has Rosie O’Donnell as a guest, and I just made myself shudder to the point of almost vomiting on my socks.
So the Globetrotter game got me thinking about what would make the NBA all-star game more entertaining and I cam up with 4 ideas:
1. A game of H-O-R-S-E with all of the all-stars. Ok, so it may take a few hours but who wouldn’t want to see the greatest shooters alive pop them in from half court, from behind the bench, and around their backs. Seriously, people like the three point contest because it is a skill based competition. The game of HORSE takes this to an even more competitive level. It could be called the Michael Smith Classic after the former Celtics number one draft pick who apparently couldn’t miss a shot in practice but sucked during the games. This needs to happen, you could even bring in old timers to compete because it is unlikely they would blow out their knees ala Calvin Murphy several years ago. You wouldn’t want to see Larry Legend destroy LeDong in HORSE? All I can think of is Pay-per-view.
2. A royal rumble with NBA star’s Posses. Iverson’s crew vs. Baron Davis’s crew vs. Shaq’s crew. No holds barred, no weapons, just good clean fisticuffs. Whoever leaves with the most gold teef wins.
3. A game called guess whose kid, Shawn Kemp’s or Scottie Pippen’s. Twenty kids are lined up at random and DNA tested to determine if their father is Shawn Kemp or Scottie Pippen. Bonus points if they turn out to be kids of any other nba superstar, of course, odds are that at least 15 in 20 kids have been fathered by either the great Pippen or the prolific Kemp.
4. What will a groupie do? This game will modeled so as to see how far a groupie will go to sleep with the worst NBA player (Hello Dan Dickau, I told you I would get you to the all-star game). This may be a pay-per-view event but would make the lingerie bowl seem as PG-rated and moronic as, well, as the lingerie bowl.
I await your call about these ideas David Stern. Perhaps you can hook me up with a summer job as apparently I am not cut out for equity research or the buy side. Maybe I shouldn’t have worn my retro John Bagley jersey to the interviews.
On to the free nba picks:
NBA BASKETBALL PICKS FOR SATURDAY 2/07/04
I went 2-1 last night but more importantly, the Celtics season is officially over. Losing to Atlanta at home in a must win game for momentum should be the end. Does anybody know if Ainge is mormon for Pitino?
Washington +4.5 at Cleveland:
Stackhouse and Arenas are back. Add in Larry Hughes and you have a decent team. Cleveland is exciting as well but I think Stack wants to show LeDong what he has been missing. Cleveland may win, but not by 4.5.
Utah +5 at Phoenix:
This is one of those games where the bookies must no more than me. Phoenix has not been playing well and Utah plays everybody well. The 5 point line seems egregiously excessive. Still, take Utah but definitely worry that the bookies have money flowing the other way here.
Detroit at Dallas -6:
Seems like a lot of points to give to one of the top teams in the East but my boy Dirk loves to shoot. Dirk, Walker, Jamison, Finley, Nash, are too much for the Pistons. If you watch the game, you may even get a glimpse of Darko in the closing minutes.
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