AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS

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4/16/05 Week 24 Free NBA Picks

AC's outlook on the NBA is an entertaining original column featured here at Wagercom. If you are prone to NBA betting or even just an NBA fan, make sure you come back often to read his articles and free NBA Basketball picks against the spread. AC will be providing us with a weekly outlook during the basketball season including free NBA Basketball picks on some of the weekend games each Friday and Saturday.

Our NBA expert AC wrapped up the 2003-2004 NBA betting season with a 51% winning percentage against the spread on his basketball picks after 190 games and has improved that to a 56% winning percentage against the spread so far this season.

As promised:

Another NBA season is just about over and we’ve learned several things. We’ve learned Kobe is much better at raping women than he is at leading a team, we’ve learned that you probably don’t want to throw beer at Ron Artest, and most of all we’ve learned that Isiah Thomas is in fact the second most incompetent GM in NBA history after the awful Chris Wallace/Rick Pitino two-headed monster. However, with only a week left it is time to announce AC’s second annual regular season awards.

MVP (known as the Bird Award): Two words for you Shaq Fu. Mr. O’Neal has dominated the paint for the Heat and led them to the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Miami was a good team last year, in fact, they were very underrated but they tore up the core of that squad for Shaq and it has paid huge dividends. Not only is Shaq big, but he can play the game. I know Steve Nash and Tim Duncan are popular choices but you have to give Shaq Daddy his props. Interestingly enough, I think Kobe should be runner up for MVP for orchestrating the trade that sent Shaq to the Heat. Nice job asswad, you are turning into the West Coast version of Isiah.

LVP (Least Valuable Player, known as the Mokeski): So many choices here. Artest is the obvious choice but I think he qualifies for the SFP award (stupidest f-in player) and thus I am taking him out of the running. Other good choices would be Zach “Big Contract” Randolph, Carlos Boozer, and Chris Webber. However, this year’s LVP is a three way draw between Mark Blount, the Spreewell/Cassell duo, and the entire New York Knicks team. What a waste of time they all are. Blount is just plain lazy, Cassell and Spreewell are just plain old and bad, and the Knicks just plain suck. Congrats to Isiah for assembling that team full of winners, maybe he’ll deal Sweetney and Crawford for Spreewell and Cassell and then shop a first round pick for Blount. Now that would be good.

Most Improved Player (known as the Michael Redd Award): Again, there are many candidates including the great white dope, Joe Pryzbilla. Seriously, this guy has been a rebounding and blocked shot machine over the last 3 months. Check out his numbers. If he could score he would be a top 5 center, and yes I just typed that, and no I am not on crack. One could also argue that Kyle “I love men” Korver should win this award, but then again I have heard people argue that Ray Romano is funny so I tend not to pay attention to what anyone else has to say. That said, the most improved player is Larry Hughes. This guy has always had potential but he has teetered the fence between being Tim Thomas (a waste of talent) and an NBA superstar. Well Hughes finally put it together and he is scary and still only 26, just hitting his prime.

Least Improved Player (The Kedrick Brown Award): Adonal Foyle wins this award hands down. Foyle signed a big deal and was set to finally put things together but instead continued with his 5rpg, 4ppg, and 2 block per game averages. He has been the same player for 5 years now and I am amazed that Mullin dished out so much cash for a back-up center, but then again I am amazed that Chris Mullin is a GM so what do I know? Interestingly enough, Adonal Foyle is Canoan for “Chris Mullin back on the bottle.”

Rookie of the Year (The Jordan): Emeka Okafor wins nudging out Ben Gordon, Dwight Howard, and the emerging Smith brothers Josh and JR. Okafor is a defensive and rebounding machine with a nice little inside game. He is like younger, more mobile, less bizarre version of Dikembe Mutombo.

Worst Highly Drafted Rookie (The Chris Washburn Award): How about Rafael “Big Bench” Araujo? He had a lot of competition from Luke Jackson, Robert Swift, and every other white guy taken but the “Big Bench” nudges out the competition here. Araujo is so bad I hear Brazil was thinking about cutting him from their under 18 squad.

Best Coach (The Auerbach): Two words: George Karl. The Nuggets are playing like the best team in the game since Karl took over so that’s got to count for something.

Worst Coach (The Isiah award): For the second year in a row I would like to give this to Jim O’Brien, in fact I was thinking of just renaming the award for him and retiring it until he gets fired. The Sixers’ players and fans hate him, he is not going to make the playoffs, and he still can not substitute players correctly or give young guys a shot. However, I’d like to nominate Byron Scott this year instead of Obie simply because Byron is flat out bad along every dimension, one may even call him O’Brien-esque.

Free NBA Picks:

Friday Night Basketball Picks:

Tough to pick games at this point in the season because most players have mailed it in either waiting for the playoffs or waiting for the offseason and groupies by the beach. That said, I’ll still try to make you some dollas.

Orlando at Chicago Under 200:

No Curry, no Deng, no points. The Magic like to score but the Bulls play tough D. This should be an ugly low scoring affair.

Los Angeles Clippers at Phoenix Under 214.5:

Maggette is hurt, the Q is probably out as well, this should be a lower scoring affair than usual. Look for the Clips to struggle to put up 100.

Portland at Golden State -10.5:

Tough to take the Warriors and give double digit points but the Blazers have pretty much quit already. Reuben Patterson refuses to play the rest of the year and Darius Miles is bitching about staying in Portland for the next 5 years. Telfair is going to get destroyed by Baron Davis and the Warriors should roll here.

Sacramento -5 at Los Angeles Lakers:

The Lake show sucks donkey dick and the Kings are playing for positioning (and don’t ask how I know they suck donkey dick, let’s just say there are pictures on the web). Does anyone find it odd that the last time Kobe dominated anything it was a hotel employee?

Your boy AC went 4-0 last night making you all enough cash for that extra lap dance at Mitchell Brothers. Hope you enjoy it and think of me as I bring more cash to you tonight. By the way, I am 19-5 in my last 24 games so you might want to throw a tip my way or buy some Wagercom.com paraphernalia, I mean it’s like your birthday every week with what I’m giving away.

Saturday Night Basketball Picks:
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New Orleans at LA Clippers -9:

This game scares me as both teams suck but the Hornets have a bunch of injuries and Lee Nailon has been their leading scorer and that can’t be good.

Memphis +9.5 at San Antonio:

Just don’t think it is going to be a blow out. The Grizz generally keep things close and with Duncan just coming back, they should be able to stay within double digits of the Spurs.

Chicago at Atlanta Under 193.5:

Have I mentioned I hate all of the games tonight? Well I do.

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