NBA Season Opener: Highlights, Predictions, & Best Bets

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00:00All right, tonight's NBA slate, a bunch of games.

00:07Well, yeah, our first big slate of the season, 10 games tonight across the association.

00:13Why don't we start in Detroit, where the Pacers are coming off that trip to the Eastern Conference

00:18Finals last year.

00:19They are in to visit the Pistons.

00:22This might be, I know it's very rare that the Pistons actually have all their players

00:25healthy, but it is the first game of the season, so I guess anything's possible.

00:29Indiana minus five and a half on the road tonight with a 235 and a half total.

00:36Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:37I got a hard time believing that the Pistons are good, because they never are.

00:42The Pacers are a really good team.

00:44I'm going Pacers, and I don't need to know anything else.

00:49Don't need to know anything else indeed.

00:51The Brooklyn Nets begin their season, the quest for flag, right?

00:56The call for flag is what it's all about for the Brooklyn Nets this season, and their

01:00roster reflects that.

01:02They will open in Atlanta against the Hawks.

01:05Hawks, of course, minus six and a half.

01:09223 and a half is the total down in Atlanta, GA.

01:14There's no such thing as a tank for players in the NBA.

01:19It's a crapshoot with ping pong balls in a tube.

01:24You have no chance of getting him, thinking if all we have to do is lose games.

01:29They want to be in the top three to get the three, you know, the highest chance to get

01:34him.

01:35Obviously, it's not the worst, but they want to have the most opportunity to be able to

01:40get Cooper Flag, and hope it goes their way.

01:43Well, there you go.

01:45So they start with a loss in Atlanta, and the Hawks will cover.

01:48I agree with you.

01:49I think they're going to get absolutely smashed.

01:52They'll go to the middle of Florida to open up the season for the Magic and the Heat down

01:56in Miami.

01:58Heat minus two and a half at home.

02:00208 and a half, the low total on opening night.

02:04My man, Hawkeyes, and company, and Jimmy Buckets getting involved.

02:10Take the heat.

02:11Lay it.

02:12Lay it with the heat.

02:14Why not?

02:15Next, the game we were talking about before, Milwaukee into Pharrell, Adelphia against

02:20the Sixers.

02:21No Embiid, no Paul George.

02:23They do have Maxie tonight.

02:25Minus three and a half for the Bucs.

02:27You have a healthy Giannis and a healthy Damian Lillard.

02:30I saw Lillard yesterday doing interviews.

02:34I'm going to be back this year.

02:37People sleeping on me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

02:40Two twenty-two and a half is the total Bucs minus three and a half.

02:43There's nobody to stop Giannis in this game.

02:46They, you know, there's absolutely no getting around it.

02:50He's going to do whatever he wants.

02:52There's no Embiid.

02:53Isn't Drummond his backup?

02:54He's so slow.

02:55Yes.

02:56He's literally, he's a donkey.

02:57He's a mule.

02:58He's literally a mule.

03:00And there is no way that Giannis isn't winning this game and going off.

03:06They're going to go off on him.

03:07There's no George, no Embiid, no, in my idea, no choice.

03:11You have to take the Bucs.

03:14Got to take the Bucs in this spot.

03:16And I actually think the numbers, I think it's a little short.

03:19I kind of expected no Embiid, no George.

03:21They'd be even a little bit more than three and a half in this spot.

03:25Cleveland into Toronto against the Raptors.

03:29Cavs now minus six and a half.

03:31Two twenty-four and a half the total.

03:34Now there's a, you know, a chance that you could get lucky with that spread with Toronto.

03:40I think the Cavs win the game, they don't cover.

03:44I could be with you on that for the Raptors here.

03:47See if they'll be spunky this year.

03:48The Hornets, of course, they got decimated by injuries last year.

03:53They're going to hope that Ball can actually stay on the floor for an extended period of

03:58time this year because they're a lot better when he's there.

04:00They open in Houston against the Rockets.

04:03Rockets minus seven and a half, two twenty-nine and a half the total.

04:07The Rockets are young and loaded and good and they got Sangoon back and they're going

04:13to destroy the Hornets tonight.

04:16I could see that too.

04:18Destroy the Hornets.

04:19Speaking of, another Ball, Lonzo Ball with the Bulls go into New Orleans to see the Pelicans

04:25here.

04:26Minus five and a half for New Orleans, two twenty-six and a half.

04:30The other thing, you have a healthy Zion tonight, which is always the first night.

04:34Zion's healthy.

04:35He'll probably have three or four highlight reel dunks and he'll be hurt by the middle

04:39of next week.

04:40Yeah, well I got it at seven and a half this morning and I bet the Bulls.

04:44Mmm.

04:45How about that?

04:47So yeah, moving down.

04:48Down to five and a half now here.

04:49A couple of hours before tip with the Bulls in New Orleans.

04:52Memphis gets Ja Morant back.

04:55They are in Utah against the Jazz.

04:58Memphis minus two and a half.

05:00The road favorites, two twenty-nine and a half is the total.

05:05Yeah, I like Memphis here on the road in Salt Lake.

05:09I don't think it's going to be easy.

05:10It's a tough place to play.

05:12But Ja, Edie, they got some talent now in size monsters.

05:19Remember, you know, they had Adams and he would play and bang and get things done.

05:26They don't have to worry about any of that anymore.

05:27They got Zack Edie.

05:28He is literally a mountain.

05:30He is a mountain man.

05:32I mean, my man is gigantic.

05:34And remember, and all I know is, all I remember was, is that all I heard was that he's going

05:39to suck at the next level.

05:41Awful.

05:42He's going to be awful.

05:43I am telling you, there is no way you can stop this dude.

05:49No one can stop him.

05:50He's just an absolute flat out, low post, seal off, bad ass.

05:55He seals off better than any big I've seen in college or pros.

05:59He gets the ball and he puts it in the hole.

06:02He does whatever he wants and he's great from the line and he's, he's gigantic.

06:06He's 300 pounds.

06:08Have fun with that.

06:09And all the people that said he's going to suck are going to eat it.

06:12They're going to eat it hard.

06:14I saw this number before on him and I was going to bring it to your attention.

06:18I don't know how much burn he's going to get.

06:20I don't know if he's starting, if he's coming off the bench.

06:25I'm sure he's playing a fair amount.

06:27Double double for Edie tonight.

06:29Plus 240.

06:31That's a good, that's a, that's a fat number for a guy.

06:34Like you said, he gets a lot of, you know, he's going to get a lot of boards in there.

06:37All he's got to do is put a couple hoops in, a couple offensive rebounds.

06:41Double double plus 240.

06:42Yeah.

06:43I'll take it.

06:44I'll take the double double.

06:45Now, the one thing that would get me as they're on the road and you know, he's not going to

06:48get the calls and all the rest, right?

06:51But listen, this guy gets fouled every single time he touches the ball.

06:56You have to foul him to deal with him.

06:58So I'm playing this guy today at a seven footer, right?

07:01And we were triple, we were quadruple teaming him.

07:05And our goal was to cut his arms off of his body.

07:09We couldn't let him get the ball and go to the 10 because you can't stop him.

07:13So we were literally tackling him, holding him, pulling him, tugging him, sway, taking

07:19wax at his arms.

07:21And he's still was unstoppable.

07:23That's what Edie goes through.

07:24Every time he touches the ball, at least three or four people fouling.

07:28You have to foul it.

07:29Do you remember him at Purdue?

07:30He got fouled every time he touched the ball.

07:32And they, how many times can he go to the line in a game where you're like, Oh, this

07:37game's fixed.

07:38This is the refs.

07:40It's because he gets fouled 90% of the time he touches the ball.

07:45Opening of the Intuit Dome tonight in Los Angeles for the Clippers.

07:50They have the Suns coming into town.

07:52Suns minus five and a half to 25 and a half.

07:55The total.

07:56I'll take the Clippers.

07:58And Golden State's five and a half point favorites in Portland against the Blazers tonight.

08:03I like the Dubs.

08:06Blazers are going to be bad.

08:08Really bad.

08:09How will I ever sleep at night?

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