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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2008-2009 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 67 Losses: 62 Ties: 0
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 52%
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AC'S NBA 2008-2009 NBA FREE PICKS WEEK 17:
A lot has happened in the NBA in the last week. The trade deadline passed with nary an all-star swapping teams. Amare Stoudemire may be out for the rest of the season after eye surgery. Kevin Garnett is out for three weeks with a knee injury. Shaq won co-MVP of the All-Star Game. Tracy McGrady announced he is having season ending knee surgery and did not tell his team. Finally and most surprisingly, Ron Artest has not done anything crazy.
I’d touch upon those stories (and many other things, so shirts up), but it is Oscars weekend which means AC’s annual Oscar column. For those of you new to Wagercom.com, first of all welcome, and second of all, in this yearly column AC matches up the best picture nominees with an NBA story line. So sit back, grab some popcorn, and hope Pervis Ellison is not sitting next to you with a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:
This goes to Greg Oden. Though I have not seen this movie, it is apparently about a man who ages backward, going from old age and winding up as a baby. A terrific premise, which was certainly modeled on the life of the aforementioned Mr. Oden who has some curious aging problems of his own.
This is a picture of 21 year old Greg Oden. This is a picture of 74 year old Bill Russell. This is the picture of a random 22 year old. Now tell me, what age does Oden look like the most?
Not only does he not look to be 21, but he gets injured every third week just like a 65 year old man. He broke his wrist before his freshman year of college, he missed his rookie season with microfracture surgery (and if you can find another 20 year old who had microfracture surgery, let me know), he missed the beginning of this year with more knee problems, and now he has bone chips in his knee. All of these injuries happened in a three year span. I can’t wait until a month from now when we learn he has osteoporosis and lung disease from the Agent Orange used when he was in ‘Nam. There is no way Oden is really 21, no way. Unless of course he is somehow aging backwards like Mr. Button or aging forward at a rapid pace. So I suggest we get Eric Roth to re-write this film and call it the Curious Case of Greg Oden.
As an aside, I know many of you follow rumors of Wagercom.com on the web. There have been many stories flying around lately about our next project. While I can not divulge all of the details, your own AC Titticock and former Wagercom.com contributor and long time fan Professor Tinkleberry are in early negotiations to write, direct, and produce a new artfully done pornographic movie called the Curious Taste of Benjamin’s Button. I can’t give any more details at this point, but I can assure you it is the most important movie this world will ever see.
Slumdog Millionaire:
This goes to just about every NBA player born in the US who has come out of the ghetto, but it especially goes to Eddy Curry. Eddy rose from the depths of Harvey, Ill and Thornwood High School (yup yup) to go straight to the NBA in 2001. In the past several years he has developed the reputation for being lazy (what other 7 footer averages only 5 rebounds in 30+ minutes of basketball a night), for being fat and out shape (which he is), and for associating with unseemly people. He was robbed at gun point in is home in the elite suburb of Burr Ridge, Il. He was recently named in a sexual harassment suit by his male driver, accusing him of not only not paying his bills but also exposing his little Eddy Curry to said driver. Lastly, the mother of his 3 year old son and paternity test proven 1 year old daughter was recently murdered along with that daughter. All of this while he is married with four other kids. Eddy Curry truly is a slumdog millionaire and proves you can take the kid out of Harvey, but you can’t take Harvey out of the kid (and there is a really bad pedophile named Harvey joke to be made here, but this is a family website so I will digress).
Milk:
It would be easy to give this to Patrick O’Bryant who takes over from John Amaechi and Kendall Gill as the most effeminate player in the NBA, but that would be too easy.
Instead this goes to the best power forward in the game, Tim Duncan, who is the most dominant player you don’t know is even on the court at times, much like Sean Penn is the most dominant actor you don’t even realize is in the movie at times.
Let me explain. Most of the time Sean Penn becomes so immersed in his roles that when you watch his movies, you often don’t even know who he is. When I saw Carlito’s Way many years ago, I kept waiting for Sean Penn to make his entrance and only when the movie was over did I realize he was the guy who played the lawyer. It was an unbelievable performance. This is similar to Tim Duncan who is averaging 21 points, 11 rebounds, and 2 blocked shots per game for like the 11th straight year on a consistently championship quality team yet he never truly stands out. Duncan is so good at blending in and so good at making others around him better, that his individual accomplishments can go unnoticed. Sure Sean Penn wins awards, and sure Duncan gets voted to All-NBA teams, but during their performances, they don’t draw attention to themselves and completely immerse themselves in putting their best effort forward.
The Reader:
This goes to every high school to the NBA player who never made the league or is just hanging on to a final roster spot and is now going to have to go back to school to get a job in the real world. With the installation of the 19 year old draft rule, these players are becoming obsolete except for the odd Gerald “the scarecrow” Green (if I only had a brain) sighting and the every now and again Ndudi Ebi towel waive. Failed high school to the pros players such as Ronnie Fields, Leon Smith, Korleone Young, and Ricky “dirty” Sanchez have littered the NBA scrap heap and CBA waiver wire for years.
So the Reader goes to them since most of them will either have to go back and pick up a book, or more likely pick up a book for the first time and learn to read, in order to get a suitable low paying job with their marginal high school educations. In the case of Gerald Green, I just hope there are a lot of picture books to help in whatever he wants to do post basketball.
Frost/Nixon:
This move goes to the Milwuakee Bucks and thus continues the four year tradition of this column of giving the movie no one has seen to the team no one has seen (thus joining Babel, Capote, and Michael Clayton). If any of you can name the Bucks starting five and don’t live adjacent to the Bradley Center, then clearly you need professional help. In fact, I bet Michael Redd couldn’t even name the five Bucks starters even if I spotted him Charlie Villanueva and umm, well you get the point. That said, despite their anonymity and despite the season ending injuries to Michael Redd and Andrew Bogut, the Bucks are hanging on to the last playoff spot in the East. It is a testament to Scott Skiles coaching, Richard Jefferson’s continued under the radar all-star play, and the mostly unknown yet AC favorite, Ramon Sessions.
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Indiana +3 at Minnesota:
Newsflash to handicappers: The Big Lazy Al Jefferson is out for the year. Newsflash to bettors: Even with The Big Lazy the TerribleWolves™ suck. I am perplexed by this line as the Pacers are moderately better than their record and Minnesota is so much worse than theirs. Sure they have played ok in their first few games sans Jefferson, but Indiana is going to run away from them. Take the Pacers, and do it more than once if you can.
Oklahoma City at Phoenix Under 234:
Phoenix just dropped 140 on the Clippers in consecutive games since the firing of Terry Porter and Oklahoma City loves to not play defense and chuck up shots. Plus Durant may score 70 tonight. That said, we never take the over on a 234 game unless it is an All-Star Game. One bad quarter and we hit the under so we’ll take those odds even if these teams can fill it up like Lexington Steele.
Cleveland -7.5 at Milwaukee:
The only thing that keeps this game under 10 is if LeDong becomes so bored of being in Milwaukee he catches a plane at half time to get the fuck out of there. I’m not saying Milwaukee is boring, but I’ve seen chechnyan political prisoners act more lively. Oh, drum shot please. Hey, Milwaukee is so boring I hear even the Librarians of America won’t go there on vacation. Thanks, I’ll be here all week.
Washington at New Jersey -7.5:
Wizard, please.
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Philadelphia at Miami -3.5:
Andre Miller may not play and while I love Lou Williams, putting him up against a hungry Miami team is not the best match-up for him. The Heat looked horrible in a post trade loss to the TerribleWolves™ the other night where Miami rolled out newly acquire Jermaine O’Neal for the first time. Wade and O’Neal have a lot to prove tonight so there is a 68.7% chance they come out and smoke the Sixers. Either way, keep an eye on my boy Marreese Speights who never saw a double letter he didn’t like and who can play this game.
Oklahoma City at Golden Shower State under 229.5:
I went with the under last night in the OKC and Phoenix game, apparently not realizing that the Suns don’t actually need Amare Stoudemire to put up 140+ points. While I hate taking the under two nights in a row, teams just don’t play in those types of high scoring games on back to back nights. There is no way Oklahoma City drops another 120 points tonight and there is no way Scottie Brooks doesn’t have them play at least 12 minutes of defense. I truly hate this call, but sometimes you have to go with your brain and realize this line is juiced up a bit based on last night’s game.
New Orleans +8 at Utah:
Despite Chris Paul’s horrible last two minutes against the Lakers last night, we here at Wagercom.com do not ever give a Chris Paul led team 8 points. Utah is playing ridiculously well, Deron “Darren” Williams will want to show he is as good as Paul, the Jazz don’t like losing in Utah, and New Orleans is coming off of a tough overtime loss to the Lakers last night. All of this points to a Utah victory, and while I don’t disagree with that, I’m not giving 8 points here, no way. So take the points and root for one other player on New Orleans other than Paul and David West to get hot.
San Antonio -7.5 at Washington:
I know Ginobili is hurt, but as I said before: Wizard, please.
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