AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS

Let’s forget about the NCAA tournament for awhile, forget about the Kobe trial, and even forget about Rosie O’Donnell getting married (and yes I still want to throw up on my socks). Instead, let’s concentrate on AC’s Vegas trip and cleaning up in the sports book. While Wagercom.com’s own Jiggy Doughnuts was trying to convince two lesbians to go to a strip club with him (incidentally it worked out about as well as a Ben Wallace jump shot), AC was cashing in his four straight victories at the Luxor sports book. Now I know what you’re all saying, the Luxor? Yeah, Jiggy and I like to keep it low key in Vegas as we don’t want to bring too much attention to ourselves given our penchant for breaking the sports book (and by breaking the sports book I mean ordering strippers, and by strippers I mean many strippers). Anyway, 3-0 Saturday and then taking easy money on the over in the Heat-Nets game on Sunday. It just wasn’t fair.

As for Vegas, Jiggy and I plotted world dominance over 16 straight hours of Jack on the rocks while offending a constant churn of players at our black jack table. Jiggy perfected the art of surrendering (which he taught to the lesbians, nice job doughnuts), while I perfected the art of hitting on 15 (and by 15 I mean 15 year old girls). What a trip. Next year we are going to have a Wagercom.com party in Vegas for all of our readers and editorial staff. It will be kind of like a Star Trek convention, only without all of the trekkies and with more strippers and perhaps some sports celebrities. It is a little known fact that Jiggy and Roger Craig are good friends, in fact we all ran into each other at Caesar’s but we kept it on the down low.

So on to the NBA. This week featured stories about the Lakers discussing Kobe taking a leave of absence, the Mavericks getting surprised by the Hawks, and the Pistons playing defense like it is going out of style. First of all, is giving Kobe more free time really a good thing? The next high school girl is just around the corner and there is a 1 in a billion chance he might find another one that says no. Kobe, Kobe, Kobe, you are so stupid, I can’t wait for you to lose in the playoffs. However, we know he won’t be losing to the Mavericks. Wow are they bad. Nice to see that Antoine brought all of his leadership to Dallas. He is a selfish player and shooting 28% over the last couple of weeks. I can’t figure out what happened to Dirk, he should just tell Toine to shut up and then score 45 a night. As for Detroit, how about 71, 69, 65, 65, 66, 68? Those are not the number of seconds Darko has played over the last six games, nor are they the number of dime bags RaWeed bought over the last week, instead that is the number of points they have held opponents to in the last six games. Ridiculous. It’s like they’re playing the mid-1990’s Knicks or a WNBA team. Good trade by Dumars, except for the fact that RaWeed will lose it in the playoffs and they’ll exit in the second round.

On to the free NBA picks for Saturday:

Indiana at Memphis Over 182:

I am taking the over on this game...total will be more then 182 points.

Celtics +12 at San Antonio:

Don't ask why

Knicks -4 at Chicago:

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