Friday, May 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM
The NBA Playoff schedule has created a great opportunity for me to show you how my Advanced Sports Betting and Handicapping approaches can be applied to studying a series. I’ll use this late-week slot in...
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Friday, May 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM
We have a very interesting dynamic in play right now in Major League Baseball where many favorites are throwing pitchers who aren’t particularly overpowering. I’m not saying they’re...
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Friday, May 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Just thought that you might like to know that prior to last night's Game 6 showdown between the Indiana Pacers at the New York Knicks, the staff here at Jim Sez spent a minute-or-so researching what the odds...
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Friday, May 17, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Adding the Houston Astros to your division is going to automatically reduce the quality of your division to an extreme degree. Houston is a minor league team that will take its lumps this year as they try to...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Two down, two to go.
One night after the Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City Thunder were officially kayoed from this year's NBA Playoffs, we're on the verge of possibly watching two other playoff teams have...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 7:00 AM
If you watched Tuesday Night’s fifth game of the Golden State/San Antonio series, you saw a very tired Seth Curry stagger through a tough night on both sides of the ball. His constant chasing on defense...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Is it really J.R. Smith’s fault that the Knicks are playing so badly against the Indiana Pacers? He’s stepped forward to take the blame. And, it’s true that he shot poorly Tuesday Night in...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Turn out the lights, the party's (probably) over for the Chicago Bulls this evening and you might be singing a similar refrain in Oklahoma City too should the Thunder not be able to figure out how to finish...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 7:00 AM
For much of Monday Night’s Game Four of the Oklahoma City/Memphis series, it looked like the Thunder were about to even things up. They jumped to a big 17-point lead in the first half. They were getting...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM
There’s probably not much to say about Wednesday Night’s fifth game of the Chicago Bulls/Miami Heat playoff series that hasn’t already been said about any #1 vs. #16 game in March Madness, or...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 3:00 PM
TV announcers love talking about home court advantage during the NBA Playoffs. The noise in Oracle Arena out West. The aura of Madison Square Garden in my old stomping grounds in New York. The passion in...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM
As we continue working deeper into important concepts from my College of Advanced Sports Betting and Handicapping, I want to talk today about how the NBA playoffs differ significantly from March Madness and...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00 AM
For several minutes this past Sunday, it looked like the San Antonio Spurs were on the verge of taking an insurmountable 3-1 series led over the Golden State Warriors. The Spurs enjoyed a reasonably...
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Monday, May 13, 2013 at 10:30 PM
If the New York Knicks can’t win a game in Indiana this week, then their season will come to an end. The Indiana Pacers stole home court advantage for the playoffs by wining Game One at Madison Square...
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Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM
We may not yet have seen the straw that broke the camel’s back in the second round NBA Playoff series matching the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Memphis Grizzles…but it sure likes like Kevin...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM
The media focus on the second round NBA Playoff series matching the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls has emphasized physicality, chippiness, pushing, shoving, and “bad blood.” It’s a shame,...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Before the season began, the Los Angeles Angels were basically co-favorites with the Detroit Tigers to win the American League pennant. They were supposed to win about 91-92 games in the regular season, best...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 9:42 AM
The first night of college football is 111 days away and opening night in the National Football League 118 days out but the work to get ready for the coming season is underway. At this writing, Alabama is the...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Tony, Tony, Tony ... you've done it again!
Hey, we haven't uttered those words in a while but San Antonio Spurs mega-star guard Tony Parker was so brilliant in his team's chest-thumping 102-92 win in Game 3...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 7:00 AM
The second round NBA Playoff series matching the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers resumes Saturday Night. A new face will be in uniform for the visitors, as Amare Stoudemire returns to the Knicks after a...
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Friday, May 10, 2013 at 8:00 PM
If you understand how pointspreads work in the NBA Playoffs, you know that the betting markets have determined that the Memphis Grizzlies are the better of the two teams in their second round series against...
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Friday, May 10, 2013 at 8:57 AM
It's a case of "even steven" all the way around in these NBA Playoffs as all four of the best-of-seven sets currently are knotted at a game apiece - but what might we expect in these all-important Game 3's...
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Friday, May 10, 2013 at 7:00 AM
The betting markets in Las Vegas and offshore never accepted the Golden State Warriors as being superior to the Denver Nuggets…even as the new kids on the block were covering EVERY single pointspread in...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Heat Check! If there were any doubts about the focus and intensity of the defending World Champion Miami Heat after they lost their series opener to the Chicago Bulls…they were erased in the 115-78...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 7:00 PM
We’ve talked a lot already about the key fundamentals for picking NBA Playoff games. The league itself has created a new dynamic for Advanced Sports Bettors and Handicappers to consider with the bizarre...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 4:45 PM
It’s amazing how many teams that the betting markets have been WRONG about in Major League baseball early in the 2013 season. All the research that’s done. All the power of modern sabermetrics. All...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 8:50 AM
Just call the defending NBA champion Miami Heat "fightin' mad".
Last night's lay-down-the-law 115-78 walloping of the frisky Chicago Bulls by the all-business Heat not only turned out to be Miami's largest...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 7:00 AM
There are two teams in Major League Baseball right now who are off to very good starts…but are actually even BETTER positioned than the media and the markets have realized. Because the NBA Playoffs are...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Know something funny about this year's NBA Playoffs?
Just when you think you have things figured out, you realize that you don't!
This past Monday night when the Eastern Conference Semifinal Playoff Series...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Our first look at the Golden State/San Antonio series here in the NOTEBOOK gives us a chance to review one of the best playoff games in recent memory. Golden State pretty much had things wrapped up with a...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 at 9:00 PM
No matter how much respect you had for the Chicago Bulls and what they’ve accomplished with a sick, tired, injured roster…there were very few people on the planet who thought they could come out...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Throughout the calendar year, I’ve been emphasizing to you the importance of recognizing PLAYMAKERS and GAMEBREAKERS in your handicapping process. This is true in ALL sports, and is the single most...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 at 2:00 PM
I can assure you that THE KING OF UPSETS was not surprised to see the mainstream media up in arms over the number of shockers and near-shockers in the opening games of second round NBA Playoff action. The...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Throughout the majority of Sunday’s series opener in the Memphis Grizzlies/Oklahoma City Thunder matchup in the second round of the NBA Playoffs, you got the sense that the road underdog was the better...
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Monday, May 06, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Gotham is reeling aft the New York Knicks lost their third game in the last four outings Sunday in their NBA Playoff second round series opener against the Indiana Pacers. Fans are growing impatient. And,...
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Monday, May 06, 2013 at 6:40 PM
It is pleasing and profitable to be crushing the numbers day after day in the NBA playoffs and I do hope you have been with me on my current run. I closed out the last week of 1st round play up 325 units and...
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Monday, May 06, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Back as promised to look at how sharps are betting Monday’s second round NBA Playoff openers featuring Chicago at Miami and Golden State at San Antonio. A frustrating postseason continued for sharps on...
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Monday, May 06, 2013 at 10:04 AM
The NBA Playoffs are one full round- plus two games- in the record books as we begin a new week and here's the skinny: Three teams that were first-round post-season underdogs have survived-and-advanced in...
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Monday, May 06, 2013 at 7:00 AM
The San Antonio Spurs have been resting so long that it seems like a crime. The four teams who played Sunday in the NBA Playoffs were all coming off Friday Night Game Sixes. San Antonio didn’t have to...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013 at 7:00 PM
As inspiring as it was to watch the shorthanded Chicago Bulls play their hearts out to upset the Brooklyn Nets in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, you got the sense through the whole series that the...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013 at 8:00 AM
We’ve backed off the daily market reports because sharps had become very conservative in the latter stages of the first round. Their longtime strategies weren’t finding success to the degree that...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Both the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks finished off their first round series Friday Night…winning on the road against Atlanta and Boston respectively. They’re both now back on the court in a...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013 at 10:30 PM
The Western Conference playoff race is now wide open because the Oklahoma City Thunder have fallen back to the pack with the loss of Russell Westbrook. They struggled to shine vs. Houston even though they...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013 at 8:39 AM
Let's get one thing straight here, ladies and gentlemen:
The good folks in the NBA offices on Park Avenue in New York City really were salivating at the thought that there would be a bevy of Game 7's to show...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013 at 7:00 AM
If you had to choose a first round series this year that you wanted to go seven games, it probably WOULDN’T be Bulls/Nets! Both have had long stretches of poor offensive play. Neither team knows what to...
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Friday, May 03, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Saturday brings our first GAME SEVEN of the 2013 NBA Playoffs when the Chicago Bulls visit the Brooklyn Nets. I’ve been picking winners in dramatic sports events for more than 25 years out here in Las...
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Friday, May 03, 2013 at 2:30 PM
As I’ve been watching, handicapping, and betting the NBA playoffs the past two weeks, one thing has really jumped out at me that we need to incorporate into our Advanced Sports Betting process.
In...
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Friday, May 03, 2013 at 8:00 AM
It’s always dangerous to draw conclusions about an NBA Playoff series after the first game. There’s no better example of that than this year’s Memphis Grizzlies/Los Angeles Clippers series...
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Friday, May 03, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Wow…even if you valued Russell Westbrook as a league superstar…it was hard to imagine Oklahoma City falling apart to THIS degree when he was lost for the season with a knee injury. They were...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 9:00 PM
The New York Knicks made the huge mistake of assuming their first round series against the Boston Celtics was over after they jumped to a 3-0 lead. It’s true that no NBA team had ever rallied from that...
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