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San Antonio Spurs vs. Miami Heat Game 1 NBA Preview & Free Pick

San Antonio vs Miami Handicapping

It’s been a week and change since the Spurs last played a game, so when they take the court tonight in Miami in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, it’s easy to forget just how dominant San Antonio has been since the 82-game exhibition season ended way back in the middle of April.

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Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers Game 6 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Miami vs Indiana Handicapping

LeBron James is back to his default setting, returning to what worked in high school and AAU basketball, and how it was done when the Cleveland Cavaliers consisted of just him and a bunch of cadavers.

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Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers Game 3 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Miami vs Indiana Handicapping

As Arte Johnson used to say on the 1960s television show “Laugh In” – Verrrrry interesting. The Pacers’ surprising Game 2 win in Miami may not exactly have the Heat back on their heels, but the victory has caught the attention of fans nationally.

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San Antonio Spurs vs. Memphis Grizzlies Game 3 NBA Preview & Free Pick

San Antonio vs Memphis Handicapping

If the Memphis Grizzlies proved anything in their Game 2 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, it’s that despite what many of us may have thought, they Grizz indeed are capable of coming from behind despite their deliberate pound-the-ball-in-low offense.

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Indiana Pacers vs. Miami Heat Game 1 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Indiana vs Miami Handicapping

Is there any way on God’s green earth that that the Indiana Pacers can take out the Miami Heat in their Eastern Conference finals series that begins tonight?

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Memphis Grizzlies vs. San Antonio Spurs Game 2 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Memphis vs San Antonio Handicapping

When teams get this far into the playoffs, talent tends to even out and coaches have to start really earning their money by making adjustments.

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Handicapping NBA Final 4: Case for each NBA team to win title

2013 Playoffs – NBA playoff odds

We’re mere weeks away from the coveted Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy being presented to one lucky team. With only four clubs still in contention for that honor, let’s take a look at the case for each club to take home the title.

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Memphis Grizzlies vs. San Antonio Spurs Game 1 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Memphis vs San Antonio Handicapping

Cringe if you must when you watch them play, but it’s about time that NBA fans started to acknowledge what NBA coaches have known all season – namely, that the Memphis Grizzlies have a legitimate shot at getting to The Finals.

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N.Y. Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers Game 6 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Knicks vs Pacers Handicapping

Will this series be the first NBA post-season battle to be decided not on the court but by the league’s new concussion policy?

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Indiana Pacers vs. N.Y. Knicks Game 5 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Indiana vs NY Handicapping

Mike Woodson has tried just about everything.  Changes in the starting lineup.  Going small.  Going big.  Going more physical.  Doubling Roy Hibbert, of all people.

Eastern Conference
Indiana Pacers (3-1) at New York Knicks (1-3)
Thursday, May 16
Madison Square Garden, New York
8 p.m. EST
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Nothing has worked, and you wonder if even Woodson realizes at this point that the chances of winning three straight over the Pacers and getting to the Eastern Conference finals are about the same as buying a real $100 Rolex from a street vendor outside Madison Square Garden.

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The Knicks have the look and feel of a team that is out of options. Every player who took some pressure of Carmelo Anthony by making shots against soft defenses in the regular season is turtling.

J.R. Smith can’t even make a layup at this point, let alone fire in threes with hands in his face. Amare Stoudemire clearly doesn’t yet have his legs under him after returning from injury.

The Knicks would love to get some offense out of PG Ray Felton, but he’s been missing in action for two games and over the entire series the Knicks have been outscored by 32 points during the time he has been on the court. Felton was even a minus-2 in New York’s only victory, in Game 2.

That leaves Carmelo Anthony, who may or may not be 100 percent (with him you never know) to stem the tide Thursday night in Game 5 at Madison Square Garden.

Anthony loves to score and needs the ball to be effective, and unless a few of his teammates step up tonight, he’ll need a 35- or 40-point game to get things done. Can you blame him for being a ball hog the way the rest of the team has turtled? [ad-6571516]

All of which leaves the Pacers in better than pretty good shape as they head for New York with their pockets full of house money.

They shot barely 40 percent from the field in Game 4, missing 24 three-pointers and playing an all-around crummy game at home, and still came out on top.

Now they have three chances to put this away, including one more at home if needed and against a Knicks team that looks like a gunslinger who has used up all the bullets in his chamber but keeps pulling the trigger.

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This one could be decided in the first 8 minutes.

The Knicks are a front-running team that draws energy from itself. A good start opens things up for an offense which has underperformed in 12 of the 16 quarters played so far, and a slow start might result in some panic at the thought of seeing it all crumble at home.

NY appears to have played its best basketball in the Boston series and now is out of answers.

Indiana to cover the 4.5, with aggressive bettors biting at the money line for a better payoff.

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Chicago Bulls vs. Miami Heat Game 5 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Bulls vs Heat NBA Handicapping

Sacramento at Charlotte in early March. Any game involving the Clippers of the early-2000s. And now tonight’s Eastern Conference semifinal series Game 5 – Chicago at Miami.

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Memphis Grizzlies vs. OKC Thunder Game 5 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Memphis vs OKC Handicapping

Since David Stern took over the NBA, the Association has never been shy about implementing its star system.

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N.Y. Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers Game 4 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Knicks vs Pacers Handicapping

If the Indiana Pacers hold serve at home tonight in Game 4 of their Eastern semifinals series against the New York Knicks and go on to face Miami in the conference finals, they will have survived despite playing perhaps the worst stretch of NBA playoff history.

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OKC Thunder vs. Memphis Grizzlies Game 4 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Oklahoma City Thunder (1-2) at Memphis Grizzlies (2-1)

That gnashing of teeth you hear comes from the NBA offices in New York, where they are crunching numbers and figuring on lower TV revenue if the low-profile Memphis Grizzlies seal the deal in this series and take out Kevin Durant and the Thunder.

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Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls Game 4 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Heat vs Bulls NBA Handicapping

Larry Bird, who knows a thing or two about NBA playoff basketball, used to tell anyone who would listen that the key to winning a series is to get the job done in Game 4.

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Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls Game 2 NBA Preview & Free Pick

Heat vs Bulls NBA Handicapping

You can survive injuries to key players in the short-term in this man’s NBA, but as the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics have learned, eventually you have to pay the bill.