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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: 90 Losses: 71 Ties: 0
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 56%
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Our NBA expert AC has had 6 consecutive winning seasons picking NBA games against the spread making you money including the VIG. AC does this out of the kindness of his heart and for the naked pictures of your girlfriends you send him as a token of your appreciation. So enjoy the columns and the picks..
AC'S NBA 2008-2009 NBA FREE PICKS WEEK 21:
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As for the NBA this week, the Celtics got Kevin Garnett back and pulled out a win in San Antonio, LeDong continued to will his team to victory after victory, Carl Landry got popped in the leg at 4:30 in the morning, and Eddy Curry’s murdered baby’s mama’s mama won’t let him have his kid (but then again, would you?). So it’s been another eventful week.
Before we get to the picks, we all know these are trying financial times. Many of us have had to cut back on fancy dinners, buying new Paul Pierce jerseys, and even the number of lap dances we get at fine entertainment establishments. Given the amount of distress in the economy, I thought it would be good to give you all another financial/economic pop quiz/primer to help you better understand some of the key terminology that you need to know to cut through all of the gobbledygook being spouted by television talking heads and newspaper reporters.
1. What does AIG stand for?
A. Ass in gear. Which is what Mike D’Antoni shouts to Eddy Curry every day in practice. “Eddy, get your fat ass in gear.”
B. Allen Iverson Groupie. AI has nailed so many in his day, they have a term for it.
C. American International Group. A pseudo insurance company who made huge bets on derivative credit default swaps and did not set up reserves in case the the system imploded (I mean, why would housing prices go down?).
D. Tony Allen’s guess at the first 3 letters of the alphabet
2. What is a stimulus package?
A. What led to Magic Johnson getting HIV.
B. The federal government borrowing money by issuing debt and then cramming that money into the economic system to help unfreeze the markets.
C. The opposite of whatever Melvin “red eyes” Ely is smoking.
D. What Scottie Pippen provides monthly to his baby mamas (all 7 of them).
3. What is monetary policy?
A. What the Federal Reserve employs to try to moderate the economy. They fluctuate the money supply in order to control interest rates.
B. The rules NBA players set for what kind of bills to use when making it rain
C. Something about which NBA players know nothing
D. An anagram for what Chris Wallace built teams suffer from: Royal Impotency
4. What makes an asset toxic?
A. It has touched Dwyane Wyane Wade’s johnson
B. Vinny Del Negro coached it
C. It’s been in the locker room of the Croatian nation team
D. The cash flow to which the asset is tied has stopped and the payer is likely to go into default while the value of the asset continues to drop and thus has little resale value.
5. What is worse than a recession?
A. Having season tickets to the Charlotte Bobcats and being forced to go to all of their games
B. Watching Mikki Moore try to rebound
C. A depression
D. Hearing your NBA owner announce “We’re very happy to introduce our new coach and general manager, Isiah Thomas.”
FRIDAY NIGHT FREE NBA PICKS
Utah at Oklahoma City Over 200:
Durant is back and Utah sucks on the road. What more do you need to know? The Thunder can fill it up and like all young teams are susceptible to teams with good point guards (Deron “Darren” Williams) and cheap groupies. While Kostas Koufos is a bit like a cheap groupie, he’ll likely be on the bench so won’t distract the Thunder too much from scoring points and not playing defense. Take the over and enjoy Durant.
Boston +6 at San Antonio:
While KG may be back and Ray Allen may be back, we know Paul Pierce will be there and he is 100% balls out all man. Pierce jumped into the way back machine and put the Celtics on his back in their overtime victory against the Heat the other night. Boston may lose, but 6 points is a lot to give the defending champs who have been playing like shit and know they have been playing like shit. I’d almost just bet the money line here and take the Celtics to win, but let’s take the 6 and watch Rondo fluster Tony Parker like reading flusters Tony Allen.
Philadelphia at Golden Shower State Over 227:
Assuming the Warriors don’t rest 5 starters, they should be able to score at least 110 points and assuming the Sixers didn’t spend too much time at the World Famous Mitchell Brother’s Theatre last night, they should be able to also drop in at least 110. While that leaves us 7 points short, of the over, we have faith that Sweet Lou Williams will continue his hot scoring streak. The Sixers like to run so this game should be a heck of a lot more entertaining than whatever 2 vs 15 seed game you are probably going to watch instead.
Dallas at Indiana -1:
Granger is back, Troy Murphy should play, and the Mavs played last night in Atlanta. Nothing good happens when you travel from Atlanta to Indiana, and apparently nothing good happens to the Mavs on the road where they have lost 8 of 10. I don’t love this game, but I also don’t love New Orleans -11.5 vs. Memphis or Minnesota +11.5 at Houston, so what are you going to do? Take the Pacers and root for Granger to fill it up like Travis Henry on match.com.
SATURDAY NIGHT FREE NBA PICKS
New York at Orlando Over 215.5:
This bet seems a little too easy, like outrebounding Eddy Curry or banging Paris Hilton, so buyer beware. That said, both of these teams like to score and the Knick are coming off an abomination of a game against the Kings. That means they are going to want to run more than ever. This should be an easy win for the Magic, but with about 25 minutes of likely garbage time, giving 11.5 points is 4 more than I’d feel comfortable giving. So take the over and root for Hedo to get hot.
Boston -7.5 at Memphis:
Things Chris Wallace teams do well:
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You get my point. The Celtics should win in a romp here (just don’t ask me how they got into the romp) even though they played a tough game in San Antonio last night. Normally this would be a let down game but KG is back and Boston is re-energized.
LA Lakers -4 at Chicago:
Many of you have e-mailed me asking why I never pick Lakers games. There are 2 main reasons: 1. They are .500 against the spread, so the Vegas lines are usually pretty good for them. 2. They haven’t had many single digit spreads against shitty teams like Chicago. While somehow Chicago has moved up to the 8th seed in the East, they are really not a good team. They have no one to guard Kobe and Gasol is going to have a field day scoring on Tyrus Thomas. Plus watching Vinny Del Negro coach against Phil Jackson is like watching Albert Einstein compete with Gerald “The Scarecrow” Green in a physics competition. This is a double digit win for LA tonight so make sure that bottle of Cristal is on ice.
Atlanta +8 at Cleveland:
The Hawks are going to really want this game in order to show they are for real. They have won 7 consecutive games and hate that they are still flying under the radar. The Cavs have been struggling a bit. Even though they keep winning, they are now doing it by staging 4th quarter comebacks. I don’t know that the Hawks are going to win this game, but Cleveland is due for their second home loss of the year and no one is playing with more confidence than the Hawks right now. As long as Al Horford does not get into early foul trouble, this should be a close game.
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