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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2007-2008 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 71 Losses: 67 Ties: 4
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 51%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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AC'S NBA 2007-2008 WEEK 18 FREE NBA PICKS & COLUMN:
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, it has been a rough week for AC. With the stock market dropping faster than George Clooney’s date on Oscar night, AC has been pushed to the brink. Thanks to a financial system which is teetering on the brink of implosion due to securitization markets having been driven by faulty underwriting by banks as a result of levered hedge funds’ thirst for returns, we are one bad data point away from Black Monday and continued unproductive Fed cuts away from 1970s stagflation. I know you came here to read dick jokes and about the NBA, but don’t say I didn’t warn you about the guts of our financial system being more screwed up than an Isiah Thomas led Knicks team. It is ugly out there, uglier then Brian Scalabrine’s overall game and Ronnie Brewer’s shooting form. So be careful and remember, if AAA agency backed RMBS paper can send people into a panic, nothing is safe, not even the Suns chances of making the playoffs.
Given the panic let’s take a quick quiz of some common terms and understand if they relate to financial markets or the NBA:
1. Two and Twenty
A. Reggie Evan’s statline for points and rebounds
B. Number of years Ruben Patterson was going to be sentenced to for raping his baby sitter
C. The typical hedge fund pay out structure (unless you are SAC and can charge 10 and 50 or whatever).
D. The TerribleWolves’™ record after the first twenty two games of the year
2. CDO
A. A collateralized debt obligation
B. A reference to Chris Dudley’s free throw percentage
C. The number of sales of Allen Iverson’s rap CD
D. The typical NBA player’s college transcript
3. Leverage
A. What a groupie has after not using protection and getting pregnant by an NBA player
B. What Loul Deng won’t have after turning down a contract extension and then crapping his pants this year
C. What Isiah Thomas employs to keep his job by having naked pictures of Jim Dolan having sex with a dead otter, and not just any dead otter, but a gay one.
D. Using debt/borrowing to increase returns
4. Subprime
A. The effort of the Chicago Bulls last night against the Celtics
B. Settling for a heavy set groupie early in the night proving that even NBA players sometime attest to the law of going ugly early to beat the rush
C. Everything about Chris Wallace’s career
D. A borrower with a FICO score typically below 620 or 660 depending on the institution scoring it
5. Agency Paper
A. Mortgages guaranteed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and implicitly the US Government
B. David Falk’s walking around money
C. The Gold Club’s address found written on a napkin and balled up in Patrick Ewing’s wallet
D. Something Kedrick Brown will never have to worry about
6. Margin Call
A. What Glen “Big Baby” Davis does on the road when ordering room service (ok, maybe that’s a margarine call, but work with me here).
B. A call from bank lenders for borrowers to put up more collateral on their loans
C. What legendary Lakers broadcaster used to get after games
D. The phone call Tim Donaghy got everyday from his mob friends telling him what the margin of victory had to be for a certain team in the game he was refereeing.
7. Discount Rate
A. The price for which you can acquire Starbury’s
B. What tickets to Memphis Grizzlies’ games sell for from scalpers
C. The rate of interest charged to financial institutions when borrowing from their Federal Reserve Bank
D. The speed at which Knicks’ fans insults towards Isiah Thomas increase (Diss count rate, come on, work with me here).
If you can’t figure out the answers for yourself, they are A for all of the above, or maybe B.
FRIDAY NIGHT NBA PICKS
Seattle +11 at Philadelphia:
The Sixers have won seven in a row at home and are now seventh in the Eastern Conference playoff race. AC was one of the few NBA analysts who thought they would be improved this year so feel free to give me a pat (or massage) on the back (or front). On the other hand, Seattle is 6-24 on the road and have the fourth worst record in the NBA. So why isn’t taking Philly the easy thing to do here? Simple, we never take teams with sub .500 records and give double digit points unless they are playing the TerribleWolves™ or the Knicks. Seattle is bad, very very bad, but the Sixers are likely to take them lightly (something which they don’t have the talent to do) and thus win in a five to seven point game. Take the Sonics, cheer for Durant, and hope they can slow the game down.
Golden Shower State -5.5 at Miami:
I know, taking Golden Shower State on the road after they have been up all night evading the police on the streets of Miami is a terrible idea. In fact, taking them and giving 5.5 points is an even worse idea. However, the Heat are not just bad, they are worse than the Knicks. They start Mark Blount at center which is like hiring the guys who used to run New Century to manage your mortgage business. As long as Stephen Jackson didn’t shoot anyone at a club last night and as long as Baron Davis slept with under 4 groupies, so he has some energy, the Warriors should win by sevenish.
Chicago at Boston Under 196.5:
Roses are red
Wyc Grousbeck is a jew
The Celtics love playing defense
And the Bulls shoot like doo-doo
You could tease this with the Celtics -11 since they are likely going to demolish Chicago tonight. Celtics defensive guru Tom Thibodeau must be licking his chops at the opportunity to send his boys out there to force Larry Hughes and Ben Gordon into worse shot selection than they usually take (and Gordon and Hughes taking worse shots than usual would be like Pauly Shore being in a worse movie than usual). Take the under and watch Garnett destroy the Bulls.
Detroit -8.5 at New York:
I admit, I have done a terrible job picking against the Knicks this year. One might call me the Isiah Thomas of Knicks’ games. So why will tonight be any different? Because the Pistons have to be pissed (some alliteration for you illiterates) and the Knicks still suck. Take Detroit and hope they come out fired up and hope RaWeed doesn’t get tossed too early.
Saturday Free NBA Picks:
We’re back to .500 after a 1-3 night last night which is still better off than you would be doing if you were picking stocks. Tonight we’ll win some cash for you to put under your mattress for a rainy day (and by “under your mattress” I mean in a g-string and by “for a rainy day” I mean of a stripper). Either way, enjoy the soup.
Golden Shower State at Orlando Under 230:
I refuse to take the over on 230 in any NBA game, even if the Warriors were playing the Northwestern Wildcats. You just need Dwight Howard to shoot 60% from the line for the under to be reached and one quarter where the Magic only score 25. Take the under and watch the bricks fly.
Boston at Memphis Under 200.5:
Ok, we lost on the under last night in the Celtics game (even though we would have won teasing it with the Celtics giving 11 like we said to do, but I digress), but how would we know the Bulls would quit one minute into the game. The performance of the Bulls was worse than any performance by Jennifer Connelly and worse than any Robin Williams monologue. I really have never seen a team quit like the Bulls did last night, it was pathetic, just pathetic. That said, the Celtics are not landing in Memphis until three or four am Saturday morning and thus are likely going to be a bit lethargic tonight. If they score fewer than 110, this is an easy under. So take the under and hope the Celtics’ plane was delayed.
New Jersey at Dallas -12:
This is a lot of points to give but the Nets suck on the second of back to back games on the road, actually, who am I kidding, the Nets just suck. That said, there are a ton of subplots to this game with the Mavericks struggling after the Kidd trade and Kidd/Devin Harris playing against their old teams. The Nets could keep this close for awhile, but Dallas should pull it out with a dominant fourth quarter. Root for Dirk to show some fire and Vince Carter to have problems with his vagina as usual.
Denver at Utah -6:
Denver is playing ridiculously well right now but Utah loves playing at home as much as Angelo Mozilo loves making money (and tanning apparently). The Jazz may be tired after last night’s come from behind win against the Suns, but Denver is coming off of an impressive win against the Spurs so are likely to be more ready for a let down than Utah. Root for Kyle Korver to nail some threes and then root for him to nail some 18 year olds to celebrate.
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