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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's 2005-2006 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 41 Losses: 30 Ties: 3
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 58%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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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 57% winning percentage against the spread completing the 2004-2005 season.
NBA WEEK 9 COLUMN & FREE PICKS:
It is almost the new year which means we can look forward to 365 more days of drunken debauchery, sex with groupies, and lobster thermadour three times a day, that is if we were NBA players. For those of us who are glandularly challenged, we just get to win more money on my NBA picks which should eventually lead to all of the above. As an aside, do any of you think Brian Scalabrine is pulling ass? I mean besides the fact that he sucks at basketball and is now getting booed by Celtic fans, he is rich and can tell chicks he knows Paul Pierce so he’s probably getting at least the fat friend in the group, right? Probably the only slam dunk he’ll ever get (drum shot please).
Anyway, since people like to make these silly New Year’s resolutions (get in better shape, don’t drink as much, stop killing hookers), I thought I’d pretend to be David Stern and make some resolutions for the NBA.
Get Ron Artest traded:
At this point, I don’t care if the Pacers trade him for a second round draft pick and the rights to Ricky Davis’s hairdresser (and yes, Ricky flies her in weekly to do his braids). He just needs to be traded and back on the court. He brings drama to the league and drama equals ratings. I can’t figure out why middling teams like Golden State, New Jersey, Milwaukee, and Memphis don’t go after him. Seriously, for 80 cents on the dollar take a risk. I say David Stern gets all the GMs in a room and doesn’t let them leave until Ron Artest is on a new team, either that or until Isiah Thomas trades a lottery pick for Eddy Curry, oh wait, he already did that, bwahahaha. I mean this Artest situation is starting to be more drawn out than that March of the Penguins movie (I get it, the penguins walk a long way to lay eggs, really, I understood it in the first five minutes, I didn’t need those next 85 minutes to drill the point home. And yes, I saw that movie. And no, I don’t believe that makes me gay).
Put a camera in the Knicks front office during the trade deadline:
Ok, I am not sure this is a resolution but it is just something that needs to be done. Who wouldn’t want to watch Isiah match wits and get fleeced by other GMs including the Billys (Knight and King)? Do Knick fans realize they traded their first round pick and the right to swap picks next year with Chicago for Eddy “Mr. 1st half” Curry? This makes Billy Knight’s Boris Diaw and draft picks for Joe Johnson seem almost palatable (little known fact but “Diaw” is French for “Belkin was right”). I would love to watch Isiah working the phones, talking with agents, and then shaking hands in jubilation after he pulls the trigger on another team wrecking deal. This would be like herpes, the present that keeps on giving.
Put the mid-level teams on national TV:
Look, I love watching the Heat throw the ball into Shaq 25 times a game and I love watching the Spurs do the same with Duncan, and while I also love the Pacers methodical sleep inducing game, I really like watching some of the teams that run the ball. I like watching teams that play offense like the Sonics, the Bucks, the Warriors, and even the Celtics. Would it be terrible to put a Bucks-Warriors game on just once? Seriously, give some press to the mid-level teams who may have some flaws but have players that can fill it up. The Celtics-Warriors game from Wednesday night was one of the most entertaining games I have seen in the last two years but I was probably one of only 5 people that actually got to watch it. We need more games like this to continue to grow and win back the fan base. There are too many empty seats at games and too few people who like talking about the NBA. Either show some of the run and gun teams or just go with my topless cheerleader idea. In fact, just go with the topless cheerleaders, it is one time we can all be winners.
Bang more groupies:
Does this one need to be explained? And hey, keep the pictures coming.
With that said, I hope you all have had a happy holiday, make money on this week’s picks, and develop some memories on par with those of Caron Butler who eloquently stated:
"Honestly, this is probably going to strike a nerve with a lot of people. But my most memorable Christmas memory was having all of my uncles and aunties out of prison for one Christmas, and that includes me. We had a lot of run-ins with the law, and to have us all out at one time was great."
Hey Caron, we all feel the same way. So cheers to freedom, avoiding crime, and most importantly, not getting bent over by some guy named Bubba in the slammer.
So without further ado, on to this weeks picks:
NBA FRIDAY FREE PICKS:
Minnesota at Orlando +1.5:
Do you know which part of this bet makes sense to me? None of it. Actually, the Wolves have no one to stop Dwight Howard but then again the Magic can’t stop Kevin Garnett. In a game like this, go with the home team and hope Garnett gets scabies.
Golden State at Dallas Over 206.5:
A ton of points but no one is going to play defense tonight. Just hope Stackhouse goes off, and yes I just wrote that.
New York at Milwaukee -6.5:
New York hates winning and Milwuakee hates losing. Add those two together and you get the Bucks winning by 10.
Memphis -5 at Portland:
Portland isn’t just bad, they are horrendous, and I mean that in the nicest way. Take the Grizz and hope Pau drops in 25.
NBA SATURDAY FREE PICKS:
AC was a disappointing 2-2 last night thanks to the Grizzlies blowing a double digit fourth quarter lead and only winning by 3 when the line was 5. That cost me an extra bottle of champagne tonight when I celebrate the new year by pulling a Mike Tyson and drinking “myself in Bolivian” (and yes he really said that). Anyway, you should all win money tonight, so bet big and bet often.
Dallas -5 at New Orleans/Oklahoma City:
I’m just not on the NO/Oklahoma City bandwagon yet especially as they match up so poorly with the Mavs. Seriously, who is going to guard Dirk? David West? Take the Mavs and hope for the second night in a row Stackhouse comes to play.
Phoenix at Chicago Over 202.5:
Phoenix likes to score and Luol Deng is on his way to becoming a good player. The Bulls have been in slump but that slump has been defensively, not offensively so hope it keeps up. Remember, enjoy the Eddie House.
Philadelphia at Utah +1.5:
Andre Kirilenko should be healthy and if that is the case the weak rebounding Sixers will struggle. Philly is just not that good, plain and simple. Just hope Kirilenko plays.
Memphis at Seattle -2:
Memphis needs to go back to their room and think about how they made me feel.
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