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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: 57 Losses: 58 Ties: 5
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 50%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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AC'S NBA 2007-2008 ALL-STAR WEEKEND:
It’s all-star weekend. Time to watch the best dunks, the best passes, and the best groupie hook-ups. With the game taking place in New Orleans, I am sure the streets will be flooded (pun intended) with scantily clad FEMAles (pun intended) waiting to show every NBA player their boobs for a string of beads and an autograph. The city will have so many NBA crazed groupies that even Brian Scalabrine will be able to get laid.
In the past, this column has discussed ways to spruce up the all-star game. I’ve talked about a horse contest including old-timers which we would call GROUPIE, I’ve discussed a rebounding contest between Mark Blount and Earl Boykins, and I’ve even mentioned a bitch-slap contest between NBA players’ lady friends. This year, I’ll look at four additions to All-Star weekend I think the fans would really enjoy based on popular game shows.
Deal or No Deal: In this competition, we lock Isiah Thomas, Chris Wallace, and Kevin McHale in a room and see how many bad deals they can make in one hour. Will Isiah trade Zach Randolph for Ryan Gomes? Will Chris Wallace trade Mike Miller for Jerome James and a #2 draft pick? Will Kevin McHale trade Randy Foye for the last shred of his dignity. I would pay money to watch these three GMs in action. And the best part is that there would be no winners.
Are you Smarter than Gerald Green: This is a take-off on the show Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader only we substitute the Fifth Grader with Gerald “The Scarecrow (if I only had a brain)” Green. Questions would range from who is buried in Grant’s tomb, to spell MENSA, to can you point to something that is the color blue? Of course, everyone will win in this game, except for maybe Tony Allen.
The Price is Right: Instead of contestants guessing the value of products, NBA players will walk out and contestants will guess how much money NBA players carry in their wallets. Players from Shaq to Jason Kapono will be brought out and we can finally see if they have $500 or $10,000 in their pockets. Of course the showcase showdown will feature guessing the value of jewelry worn by Amare Stoudemire and Damon Jones. The contestant who guesses closest wins a bottle of Courvoisier, a pair of Kevin Durant’s puke yellow sneakers from the Rookie-Sophomore game, and a night with Superhead.
Beauty and the Geek: There are actually two parts to this game. In the first part we follow the three worst NBA players around Bourbon Street to see how hot of a girl they can pick up. Contestants will include Mark Madsen, Calvin Booth, and Louis Amundson. The other part of this game is we go to the hottest party on Bourbon Street and see just how low NBA All-Stars will go at the end of the night to hook-up. Who goes home with the 250 pound groupie with a moustache and a gimpy leg (and my money is on Jason Kidd)?
All-Star Weekend Predictions:
With no games to pick this weekend in which to win us all money for that extra special massage or autographed copy of Portnoy’s Complaint (whatever floats your boat), I’ll break down the All-Star game festivities.
Skills Challenge: Chris Paul
This competition matches up Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wyane Wade, and Deron Williams in some sort of dribble/passing skills contest. Since I have no idea what they are actually going to be doing and am 97.6% sure I won’t be watching, I’m going to take the speedy Chris Paul since Jason Kidd is too old, Dwyane Wyane Wade loves turning the ball over, and Deron Williams can’t even spell Darren correctly.
Three Point Contest: Peja Stojakovic
First of all, can someone tell me why Dirk Nowitzki is in this contest? He is shooting less than .300 from three point land. I demand Eddie House take his place. Eddie House would be so excited he would shoot through his five racks and then run and get the rebounds and shoot those too. I am severely disappointed in Eddie not being a part of this, not as disappointed as I was with the first 200 pages of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon, but disappointed nonetheless.
Anyway, the crowd favorite is likely to be Boobie Gibson who dropped 11 three pointers in the Rookie-Soph game last night but Boobie is not the set shooter one needs to be to win this contest. As for the other contestants, Steve Nash is not consistent enough from three, Richard Hamilton could be a sleeper but he really doesn’t attempt that many threes, so that leaves us with Jason Kapono and Peja. Here is a little known fact, not only is Kapono the defending champion but he is shooting over 50% from three on the year. That is incredible. He shoots a higher percentage from behind the three point line than Yao Ming does from the field. Given that, how can I be betting against him? Simple, Peja is not only a born set shooter but he will be playing in front of the home crowd and is in the midst of a big comeback year where he will want to prove that he is still the best shooter in the game. Take Peja but don’t sleep on Kapono, also don’t sleep on broken glass, that would seem painful.
Dunk Contest: Gerald “The Scarecrow” Green
This has the potential to be one of the best dunk contests ever. We have the ultra-athletic and somewhat unknown Jamario Moon (Terence Stansbury anyone?), we have the high flying ultra passive Rudy Gay (not that there is anything wrong with that), the giant freak of nature Dwight Howard, and the dunking prodigy Gerald Green. Any of these four could win this contest so let’s break them down quickly.
Jamario Moon:
By all account he is as athletic as Brooklyn Decker is hot. However, he is six foot eight and we all know that it is difficult to make dunks look good when you are that tall. People like seeing the little guy fly through the air and throw it down. Luckily for Jamario, everyone in the contest this year is over six foot eight so if he really is athletic as people say, he will have a puncher’s chance (unless that puncher is Peter McNeeley). Jamario may be a crowd favorite since he was bagging groceries in Mexico last year or something like that but I don’t think he will have the charisma to get it done. Moon will finish a strong fourth.
Rudy Gay:
Rudy can jump, Rudy can fly, but Rudy does not have the energy or personality to sell his dunks. Plus he appealed to fans to post dunks on youtube for him to replicate so he also lacks the creativity. He could win, but I don’t think he’ll get the crowd going enough to pull it out.
Dwight Howard:
We all know Howard got jobbed a bit last year when he put a sticker near the top of the back board while dunking and we all know he is getting jobbed by the NBA not letting him raise the rim to twelve feet. That said, he is just too tall to effectively sell all of his dunks. It just looks too easy. Plus, the dunk he is likely saving for everyone where he kisses the rim on the way up has been on youtube for over a year so he has lost the element of surprise. I like the fact that he is creative and there is a 25% chance he pulls something off that no one has thought about but I don’t want to bet on a 25% chance.
Gerald Green:
If there were a dunking league, Gerald would be the MVP. While most players work on dribbling, or shooting, or defense, Gerald works on dunking. He takes this dunk contest as seriously as Michael Jordan took the NBA Finals so he may be near impossible to beat. His biggest weakness is that he is somewhat cerebrally challenged so there is always the slight chance that we will do something dumb enough to hurt his chances (like miscalculating how many points he needs to win and thus trying to do too much or simply forgetting to tie his sneaker). Even given all of that, this contest was made for Gerald Green. If dunking were like writing, he would be Ernest Hemmingway, if dunking were like philosophy, he would be Des Cartes, and if dunking were like adult films, he would be Taylor Rain. He dunks, therefore he is.
All-Star Game: Western Conference
Five words: Iverson, Kobe, Yao, Duncan, Nash. Five more words: Melo, Chris Paul, Dirk, Amare. ‘Nuff said.
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