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Gambling will ruin your life, with that said here are our picks for tonight.

Tonight’s picks (our picks are in Red)

New York at Cleveland (+5)

Philadelphia at Orlando (-9)

Golden State at Portland (-5)

Gambling will ruin your life, with that said here are our picks for tonight.

Tonight’s picks (our picks are in Red)

Miami at New York (+5)

Lakers at Philly (+5.5)

Utah at New Orleans (+1)

If you haven’t watched the Iverson 30/30, it is definitely worth the time to do so. Allen Iverson tweeted the following before it’s debut..

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“I only know what I have seen in the previews. Stay tuned for my OFFICIAL project “The Deconstruction of Allen Iverson” coming this Fall.”

Keep an eye on this match-up this weekend and throughout the series. It is of our opinion that Artest will likely bully and beat up Durant throughout the series, but it certainly would not surprise us if the Durantula is too quick for Artest. Durant will be able to create open jump shots, but the question is whether or not he will be able to attack Artest and get him in foul trouble.

We are going to play this one safe and call Lakers in 5 but an upset is not out of the question, considering Kobe and the Lakers have not looked like a championship team down the stretch (but I guess they didn’t have to).

Blatche was benched in the first quarter for not wanting to listen to coach Flip Saunders and apparently refused to re-enter the game. After the game Flip was very vocal about the situation and Blatche was nowhere to be found. Maybe he was out soliciting hookers again? Who knows…

Blatche has put up some impressive numbers since the all-star break, but with 60 % of the offense running through #7 the Wizards have not won a single game in March (12 games).

“He didn’t want to hear it,” Saunders said. “I told him, ‘If you don’t come and talk, if you don’t want to be coached, you’re not going to play.’ We had coaches go up to him three different times, they said he didn’t want to play. Fifteen years, never seen anything like it…

“I’m disappointed that since we’ve started him, he gets 60 percent of the offense run through him. Coaches aren’t wrong, no matter what. When a coach wants to teach you something, and you think you’re above that, because you’ve played 16 games, good games?

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