00:00NBA competition tonight, Joe, 8 o'clock star from your area, the Miami Heat taking on the Charlotte Hornets spread here, depending on where you're shopping at between four and a half to five and a total of 241 to 243 and a half points are expected tonight. Hornets in the heat. What is your spread line here?
00:16Well, points are expected, but my goodness, poor Eric Spolstra, man, who had to come home from Denver in the middle of the night last night to find his house completely engulfed in flames and burned down to the ground. Now they say he is going to be there. They are 2-0 at home so far, just 2-4 on the road. They were 1-3 out west. Nothing like a little home cooking. I think they put it together in a big way tonight and get one for the coach who's hurting a little bit.
00:46Natalie's just about lost everything.
00:48There you go. And he realizes, no, I was shopping for better home insurance with another company and let that lapse. Hopefully that wasn't the case for Spoh down there in Miami.
00:56We repeatedly say it is a football Friday here on the Sports Grid Network. Why? Because we have awesome stuff on Saturday. I actually have awesome college football on tonight as well. USC, we already did a little preview there in our spread lines here, but a big NFL weekend.
01:08But there are some news and notes in the NBA, and that's Eric Spolstra.
01:12Thank goodness where most people probably don't have to experience losing a house, and quite frankly, as long as there's no personal loss in there, if you will.
01:21But can you imagine, Joe, your house goes up for flames, you're out at dinner, you come home, and all your stuff is gone.
01:27I don't care if you're a millionaire or a billionaire or whatever. That's a tough pill to swallow where, okay, you're going to be living out of a hotel.
01:33You've got to go get new clothes. You don't have your pictures. You don't have your computers.
01:36Like, that's got to be an amazing response to you as a human being, saying, all right, I've got to go to work tomorrow, but my house just burned down the night before.
01:43That happened to Eric Spolstra.
01:46Just crazy, man. I mean, that was, I mean, you just lost in Denver. Then you've got to come home.
01:53And Donnie, it wasn't like just a man. Like, he had extra, like, an in-law suite.
01:57Yeah.
01:57He had, like, everything went down to flames.
02:00They could not get this thing under control, and an investigation is underway.
02:05I mean, we're talking about an extremely affluent area in Coral Gables here where, my goodness, I mean, it was like a giant bonfire in the middle there.
02:17And he lost pretty much everything in that fire.
02:20So he's going to be on the court tonight.
02:23They did lose Bam Adebayo in that game against Denver.
02:27He will not be available for this game, but I don't know that it much matters because it still feels like we're getting 250 total points in this one.
02:36Yeah, I'll tell you what, it doesn't matter.
02:38LeBron James getting back to five on five, but also, do the Lakers actually need LeBron James?
02:43They've been battling injuries, but they're seven and two without LeBron James on the season.
02:48Bron trying to get back and, I don't know, crash the party, mess up the chemistry?
02:52Who knows?
02:52Trust me when I tell you, this will drag out through Christmas.
02:59You probably won't see the earliest, Donnie, that you're going to see LeBron James, I think, will be Christmas.
03:05That's it.
03:05That's the earliest you will see it.
03:07They will drag this thing out.
03:09As long as the Lakers are winning games and Luke is dropping, you know, double-double, triple-doubles, 30 points, 40 points a game,
03:16you will not see him until Christmas at the very least.
03:20All right, let's get the party started here, Joe, on a Friday.
03:23There are games tonight, and the NBA Cup is playing.
03:25You wouldn't know unless we're probably telling you about it because it's an absolute meaningless, worthless event,
03:30which I can't believe the NBA even came up with.
03:32It's ridiculous.
03:33Maybe you have the NBA.
03:34Can you know what the NBA Cup really is, Joe?
03:35The playoffs, where you win playoff rounds and you win an NBA championship.
03:39That's the NBA Cup, not some random Friday night game that nobody cares about.
03:44And maybe some people will care about the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic.
03:47This line opened up, Joe, around five.
03:49I'm not seeing three-and-a-halves across the board in a total of 227-and-a-half and 226-and-a-half.
03:55Cup night in Orlando.
03:57Get excited, people.
03:59Well, I mean, listen, the Celtics and the Jalen Browns show, Mano, they're getting some guys that are showing up here,
04:06some of the younger guys, Joe Mazzulla, happy with the direction.
04:10But if you are the Orlando Magic, there is nothing to be happy about.
04:14They are now back home for a three-game stand here.
04:17It starts tonight.
04:18But they have lost five out of their last seven games here, Donnie.
04:22And to make matters worse, I mean, they turned the ball over 17 times in that last game that they played against Atlanta.
04:3117.
04:31Boncaro continues to be an absolute monster, but they can't stop anybody because they're playing out of their element, Donnie.
04:40They're trying to play up-tempo when this team is built to play a rock fight of a physical game, and they can't figure it out.
04:48And I don't know that the Celtics are the team you're going to figure it out against.
04:51Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, always love when these guys match up together.
04:56And today, the Houston Rockets are a two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half point favorite, depending on where you're shopping at.
05:01And the total, around 224-and-a-half cup night in San Antonio.
05:06What gives tonight here, Joe?
05:08Yeah, not a great game there by San Antonio against the Lakers last time out.
05:14But Houston went in there with Kevin Durant to Memphis.
05:16And you got to love when Durant is talking total smack to John Morant's father in the front row there.
05:23You just got to absolutely love it here.
05:26And Houston is rolling right now.
05:29I mean, really rolling.
05:30The offense is absolutely fantastic.
05:33But anytime you have Webb IOM out there, Devin Vassell, Harrison Barnes, this is going to be a good one here tonight.
05:41But I do give the edge to the Rockets.
05:43Better offense right now.
05:44Let's squeeze one in in elevation tonight.
05:46The Warriors are on the road to take on the Nugget.
05:48Look ahead line, Joe.
05:49Five-and-a-half.
05:50I'm now seeing nine-and-a-halves and tens out here.
05:52Did the Golden State Warriors throw in the towel and the cup?
05:56Steph Curry likely not going.
05:58Still sick.
05:58Apparently, he's got the flu or something going on there.
06:01Steph Curry likely not in.
06:04And you got to keep an eye on Jimmy Butler.
06:06It's that time of year.
06:06Back starts to hurt.
06:08And they might not have everybody.
06:11Job well done, people.
06:12You made it to the end of the week.
06:13The early line.
06:14Yep, we're on Monday.
06:15Checkmate Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday heading into the weekend here.
06:20Now, we love to talk about a lot of stuff here and give you information that, as we like to say, you can take to the water cooler.
06:26But now is the time of the show that we want to reach out to the public and ask, where are you going?
06:30Here's the faith of the public poll.
06:39I love it.
06:40This just made my day, Joe.
06:41Like, you usually get a couple hundred votes here, you know, give or take and see where the people are going.
06:45We sent out a poll today on the SportsGrid network here, which, again, you can go right to X and follow us at SportsGrid and find it.
06:51Who will win this season's NBA Cup, Joe, with a question mark?
06:55There's four options.
06:56OKC, Cavaliers, Magic, and the Warriors.
06:59I'm looking right now, Joe.
07:0015 people voted in this poll this morning.
07:04NBA, that shows the ratings right there, Joe.
07:07What do you think?
07:08I love it.
07:10And what?
07:11We're looking about what?
07:13OKC, shocker.
07:15And there's no reason to think that they won't or should not be the favorite.
07:20But I do like the Cavs.
07:21I think that's interesting, too, now that they are finally healthy.
07:25I have Darius Garland back in company and may just cause some issues here.
07:30I think when it's all said and done, I don't mind the Cavs at that price, to tell you the truth.
07:35Yeah, Cavs plus 850, Magic 16 to 1, the NBA Cup.
07:39Let me know, Joe, when they actually announce who's in the Cup Finals and we'll cheer it on and go from there.
07:44Let me just say, I want to go off topic right now.
07:46Like, I see some things like in the NFL, like landscape and the betting landscape, and Jalen Brown comes out.
07:51Oh, it's miserable that people yell at me that I didn't close their parlay.
07:54Did you see the one yesterday where a Giants kicker, Graham Ganoe, says,
07:58oh, people are wishing, like, cancer and death on me.
08:00Which you never should do.
08:01Those are horrible human beings.
08:03But you know what?
08:03I'm tired of those stories, Joe.
08:05Can they please say, hey, man, I scored twice last night.
08:09I had a million people in there wanting to send me bottles of champagne.
08:12I'm the greatest player in the history of the world.
08:14And they just named their firstborn child after me.
08:16Where are those stories?
08:17Because they got to be out there, Joe.
08:19You know when a guy has a big performance, he's getting all the love in the world.
08:22Why do we only hear the negativity?
08:24Where's the positivity of sports gambling?
08:26Oh, trust me.
08:29They get that, right?
08:30So that ego is being fed when they have great games.
08:33They just don't like the negativity when they don't have a good game.
08:38But listen, you're never going to be able to make everybody happy here.
08:42There's winners.
08:43There's losers.
08:44And unfortunately, you're stuck right in the middle there.
08:47So all you can do is your part, Donnie.
08:49That's it.
08:49Yeah, show me Luka Doncic's DMs after a game where he has a triple-double with 35 points.
08:54And I'm pretty sure it's not like, I hate you.
08:56What, the guy that lost the ticket sends it in?
08:58No.
08:58All that love.
08:59Give me the outpouring of love and support where a guy goes, man, you know what?
09:02Legal sports gambling is kind of cool.
09:04You see my DMs, man.
09:05Everybody loves me.
09:06Or play good.
09:07We will love you here.
09:08I'm going back to the NBA.
09:09We're going to do the same thing we keep doing here.
09:11Fading the public.
09:12And I got major CLV already going on.
09:14The Toronto Raptors and the Atlanta Hawks, Joe.
09:17Raptors opened up overnight as a two-point favorite.
09:19They're now minus two and a half for the Atlanta Hawks as a favorite.
09:23Ticket count.
09:24Seven out of every ten tickets here for Toronto.
09:26We're taking the Atlanta Hawks minus one and a half for another Friday night explosion.
09:32NBA fade to public play.
09:34That's how we get down to business, Joe.
09:35Friday's payday.
09:36Sounds like a 2-0 night on deck for the boys.
09:40Love it.
09:40A lot of great action in the association here tonight.
09:44NBA Cup night, Donnie.
09:45And I know you'll be watching every one of them.
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