Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Hey, could we be headed to an "all-ABA" championship in this year's NBA Finals?
No doubt that isn't something we might have asked a few days ago but here we are on this Memorial Day Weekend and the San...
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Friday, May 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM
For the first game and three quarters, it looked like the Memphis Grizzlies were going to get squashed in their Western Conference Championship series against the San Antonio Spurs. They lost the first game by...
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Friday, May 24, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Generally speaking the NBA is “a player’s league” while college basketball is much more about head coaching. We talked about that during March Madness, remembering the importance of college...
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Friday, May 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM
For the most part, the expected contenders are sitting top their divisions to this point in the Major League Baseball season. There have been quite a few “bad” surprises amongst projected...
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Friday, May 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM
What is this year's Memorial Day Weekend gonna bring the NBA's so-called"Final Four"?
Now that the NBA defending champion Miami Heat gulped-and-gasped its way to a Game 1 overtime win against the Indiana...
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Friday, May 24, 2013 at 7:00 AM
You never want to overreact to the first game in an NBA Playoff series. We’ve all seen time and time again that the first game is often a red herring in terms of what’s to come. There’s no...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 9:03 AM
The LeBron Legend grows - with a great assist to "The Birdman"!
Go ahead and dissect the final few seconds of overtime in last night's wild and wacky 103-102 win by the Miami Heat over the 8 ½-point...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Today’s the perfect day to sit back and reflect on the National League roughly one quarter of the way into the 2013 campaign. There’s only one game in the Senior Circuit on the schedule. And,...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Guys, we haven't even tipped off the NBA Eastern Conference Finals series yet between the heavy-duty favorite Miami Heat and the gritty/gutty Indiana Pacers and there's been a slew of barbs tossed back and...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Time to run the Eastern Conference Championship round through our gauntlet of key indicator stats. After a short layoff, the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat take the floor Wednesday Night to begin what promises...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM
The Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat played each other LAST YEAR in the Eastern Conference playoffs, and take the floor again this week with very similar styles of play. Indiana is certainly more experienced and...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM
As promised, I’m back with a look at the Eastern Conference Championship round in the NBA Playoffs from an “Advanced Sports Betting and Handicapping” perspective. This is a very challenging...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:00 AM
The San Antonio Spurs were favored by about five points in Game One of the Western Conference Finals this past Sunday. So, it wasn’t a shocker that they won their home opener against the Memphis...
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Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:00 PM
It’s not at all surprising that a mid-May series featuring the Detroit Tigers is highlighted by a first place team. What’s VERY surprising is that the first place team is the Cleveland Indians! The...
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Monday, May 20, 2013 at 5:47 PM
Building a winning college football or National Football League team is a complicated process that is both art and science, with a bit of wizardry thrown in and it does not hurt to also be blessed with a bit...
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Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:45 AM
Hey, Memphis Grizzlies, welcome to your first-ever NBA Western Conference Finals ... Are y'all having fun yet?
The Grizz - who entered this round against the playoff-rich San Antonio Spurs having won eight of...
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Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Get ready for a heavy helping of Yankees/Orioles baseball! The three-game set between New York and Baltimore that starts Monday Night will dominate the national airwaves.
Monday Night Baseball on...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 7:00 AM
It may not feature marquee cities or guys you’ve been seeing in TV commercials round the clock for the last several weeks…but the Western Conference Championship series matching the San Antonio...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8:00 PM
How will the NBA's West be won this year?
Well, if you're a believer in the San Antonio Spurs - who now are making their eighth trip into the Western Conference Finals since the Tim Duncan Era first began way...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 7:00 AM
The Indiana Pacers looked to be in great shape in their second round Eastern Conference series with the New York Knicks. They were leading three games to one, knowing that they were undefeated at home...
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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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