00:00Well, now, Joe, let's flip it over to the association tonight.
00:02Out in the Golden State, that's the Golden State War,
00:04is going to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves.
00:06We updated you yesterday.
00:07Steph Curry going to be down for still a few more games at this point.
00:10You see the Timberwolves opening up overnight, Joe,
00:12around five and a half points as a favorite.
00:14Now sixes and six and a halves starting to creep in.
00:17A 225 and a half total in this one.
00:20Timberwolves on the road to take on Golden State.
00:22What's your spread line, Joe?
00:24Yeah, well, Minnesota, this has been a terrible West Coast draft for Minnesota.
00:27I mean, they just got lambasted there by both the Lakers and the Clippers,
00:33and now they've got to take on Golden State here.
00:36And slowly, I mean, Minnesota, I think, now in sixth place
00:39in a very crowded Western Conference standings here, Donnie.
00:43Losers of three straight.
00:45Golden State, no better, right?
00:46They have fallen, what, under .500, I think, for the first time in about three months.
00:51So big game for both of these teams in a lot of aspects.
00:55And you can see here, can we trust Minnesota?
00:59That is the big thing.
01:00Do we trust Anthony Edwards and company to get it right in this spot?
01:05I don't.
01:06I tend to think, though, the total is probably the better way to look.
01:09I think the under is a big-time play here tonight in this one.
01:13Social media can be good, Joe.
01:15Promotion of your team or your brand or your institution.
01:18You can make a lot of money that way.
01:19But also, social media can be the downfall of you, yourself, your character,
01:22and maybe your career.
01:24Here's the NSPN tweet, which has a little bit of a caveat to it.
01:27Superman hangs up his cape.
01:28Dwight Howard is officially retiring from basketball, he announced on social media.
01:32Congratulations, Dwight.
01:33Great career.
01:34But interesting timing, to say the least, as well,
01:37when maybe the wife was posting some business out there on social media
01:41that we probably weren't able to see or should have seen.
01:44And then Dwight's like, you know what?
01:45Shutting it down at this point, Joe.
01:46What do you think about Dwight retiring?
01:48Maybe the best time to do it now?
01:50No?
01:52What?
01:53Was he still playing?
01:54I thought he retired like three years ago.
01:56Like, why is that?
01:58You've got to be kidding.
01:59Like, all of a sudden, now he's retiring.
02:02Where were you?
02:03Yeah, no, no.
02:05Congrats again.
02:06I thought you retired a couple of years ago.
02:09But okay.
02:10Great career, Dwight.
02:12Let's just leave it at that for now.
02:16Yeah, wife posting up some stuff that's, you know what?
02:19Maybe the NBA was going to send a couple of vials to your house
02:22to get some tests back from you as well.
02:24You know what?
02:24Just going to hang it up here.
02:25I had a great career and ride off into the sunset at this point.
02:29How about Jay Gildress Alexander?
02:30This is an interesting one that we really weren't paying much attention to
02:33because I don't think anybody was looking back that far.
02:35Passes Will Chamberlain for the longest 20-point streak of all time.
02:41127 straight games with 20 points.
02:43Now, we've seen it before, Joe, a lot of these superstars, you know,
02:45like LeBron James had the 10-point streak on, which is amazing in itself
02:48because you're healthy enough to play.
02:50But 20 straight points in 127 straight games, that's unbelievable.
02:55Like, you never just had an off-shooting night where we went 5 of 20
02:58and just scored 16.
02:59That's an incredible streak.
03:02It really is.
03:03And listen, that happened back in 1963, Donnie.
03:08So that streak has been in effect since 1963, and he gets it done here.
03:14I mean, great stuff here.
03:15And by the way, winning effort against the Celtics,
03:18and now the Thunder have won seven straight, and they still –
03:22and that's all because he came back to the lineup.
03:25Don't forget, he missed a bunch of games because of the abdominal strain.
03:29But they haven't skipped a beat since he's been back,
03:31and it appears that this team goes as he goes.
03:35We got to get a Darren Revelle tweet on this next one here
03:37because we need some answers.
03:39The chances of anyone breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record based on recent data
03:43was 1 in 3.2 quintillion.
03:46So I need somebody to go out there and say, okay,
03:48if you would have just rolled over 20-plus points for 120-plus games
03:52with $100 in your pocket, what would that come back to be?
03:54But, Joe, 1 point – excuse me, 3.2 quintillion of a chance to do it,
04:00and he did it.
04:02Yeah, well, then, what is the number of somebody scoring 100 points in a game?
04:07I wonder what that is, Revelle.
04:09I don't know that you have the calculator for that.
04:12But, listen, in this day and age, Donnie, yeah, that's kind of –
04:16we're not talking about double digits.
04:18We're talking about 20 points or better in every –
04:22you know, that many games.
04:24That's impressive to say to Lee.
04:25I mean, listen, some guys, you know, you play the game,
04:28you got 10 points, ouch, the ankle, you're out, see you later, bye-bye.
04:32Like, any – you know how easy it is to break a record like that?
04:35And yet, that's impressive stuff by SGA.
04:39By the way, you couldn't buy, Luca, just one more assist from last night, Joe.
04:42How about 51 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists, 17 of 34 from the floor,
04:489 of 14 from three-point range,
04:50and the Lakers, 142 to 130 victory over the Bulls, their fourth straight.
04:55Impressive.
04:56Yeah, I mean, kudos.
04:57Not hard to figure out.
04:59I mean, listen, the Lakers beat teams with no pulse, right?
05:03That's what – it's the teams that have a pulse.
05:06The Lakers, they did give up 130 points in that game last night, Donnie.
05:11So, they needed all 51 of them from Luca in order to win that game anyway
05:16against the Bulls.
05:18Josh Giddey for the Bulls, 27 points, 15 assists, and 8 rebounds there,
05:21doing a lot of damage.
05:22And, again, you're going to get a lot of stats in the game, Joe,
05:24that finishes 140 to 130 in regulation.
05:27Didn't even need overtime in that one here.
05:29How about the complete opposite of the game?
05:31And maybe, as we talked about, Joe, yesterday, as a preview to the NBA Finals,
05:35the Celtics were on the road to take on the Thunder.
05:37Final score, Thunder 104, Celtics 102.
05:40Staying under that low total, and the Thunder come away with a victory here.
05:44Yeah, they did.
05:46Again, seventh in a row for them.
05:48Celtics have been a little bit of a rough road trip for them here.
05:51But the good news is Tatum was ruled out, but so was Derek White,
05:55was a last-minute scratch before that game last night.
05:58So, they were a little shorthanded.
06:00And you know what?
06:01They still went back – they still went toe-to-toe with OKC.
06:06And the good news is Jalen Brown didn't get too double technical
06:09and get thrown out, so at least it's a step in the right direction for the Celtics.
06:14And by the way, had the lead, the Celtics did,
06:16entering into the fourth quarter.
06:17Jalen scored 19 points, and the defense really ratcheted it up,
06:19gave the Thunder that two-point victory here.
06:21I'll tell you again, it didn't have a lot of defense
06:23and also didn't have Victor Webinyama either.
06:25The Nuggets go on the road and knock off the Spurs 136-131.
06:29Jokic, 31-20-12.
06:31Look at Castle.
06:33Triple-double also, Joe.
06:3430-11-10.
06:36The Stars were playing yesterday, even if the brightest star, Webinyama,
06:39wasn't in that one.
06:42Donnie, this was the most infuriating game last night,
06:45if you had the Spurs like I did.
06:48Because when I went to bed, Donnie, it wasn't even close.
06:52I mean, we're talking about a Spurs team.
06:54Had 69 points in the first half,
06:57and then they end up blowing a 20-plus-point lead
07:01heading into the fourth quarter of that game last night.
07:05Absolutely infuriating.
07:07But kudos to Jamal Murray and the Joker
07:09because they got 42 points in the fourth quarter,
07:13and that is ultimately what won them the game.
07:16Warriors at home.
07:17And the Warriors, Joe, as it sits right now,
07:19yeah, they're injury-plagued.
07:2032-33 on the season.
07:23Taking on the Warriors here.
07:24Excuse me.
07:24Taking on the Timberwolves, who are 40-26.
07:27Minnesota comes in this game, Joe, as the favorite,
07:29at minus 5.5 here in a total of 223.5.
07:32No stuff on this team.
07:34Injuries around.
07:35Timberwolves, as you already stated,
07:36not having a great road trip, Joe.
07:38What happens tonight?
07:38T-Wolves-Warriors.
07:40Yeah, they need a win here.
07:43They got to get back on track
07:45because they're falling down also in the playoff race.
07:49I think now they're in sixth place here.
07:51And they have been rolling, Donnie,
07:54ever since the All-Star break,
07:55but they also beat up on a lot of sub-500 teams
08:00along the way.
08:01They came out to the West Coast.
08:02And, yeah, I mean, the Clippers absolutely,
08:06absolutely not a 500.
08:08Don't play like a 500 team,
08:10even though they're only a game over it.
08:12But the Warriors are hurting here.
08:14This is the kind of game where the Timberwolves
08:17usually look like world beaters.
08:19And I think Anthony Edwards poised to have a monster game
08:22here against the Warriors.
08:23Should be fun to watch in the association.
08:25Also, as we told you, a great college basketball day.
08:28No doubt about it.
08:29Best bets are on the way next.
08:31Make sure you stick it right here
08:32on the Sports Grid Network.
08:33Joe, I'm going to head over to the association today
08:36and take a team that's been very kind to me this season.
08:38That team, it's the New Orleans Pelicans.
08:40They're on the road to take on a much better team
08:42in the Houston Rockets.
08:43Across the sports landscape right now,
08:45anywhere between seven to seven and a half are the tickets.
08:47I'm going to take the seven and a half on the Pelicans.
08:49Why?
08:50Only 40% of the tickets currently coming in.
08:52Not much line movement here, and away we go.
08:55Pelicans on a Friday.
08:56A little Kentucky-Florida basketball over for the people, Joe.
08:59A nice 2-0.
09:00That sounds like where we should be going, no?
09:03Let's go, Donnie.
09:04I mean, you got to get yourself a Pelicans jersey
09:07with the amount of times you have backed them here.
09:09And you got to get one and get it soon.
09:13There will only be $7,000 on Fanatics, I think.
09:16So, yeah, absolutely.
09:17Go grab one.
09:18So, let's get over to the association tonight.
09:20Out at Golden State, Minnesota's coming to town.
09:23No Steph Curry.
09:24Hopefully, no problem there for Golden State.
09:26But trading right now, Joe, at a 67% chance to win.
09:29That's the Minnesota Timberwolves, the road team here.
09:31Golden State at 33%.
09:32The spread, Joe, six and a half as a favorite towards Minnesota.
09:36Currently trading at 49 cents.
09:38A $100 wager will pay you back.
09:40A $100 investment, I should say.
09:41We'll pay you back $205.
09:43Minnesota and Golden State tonight, Joe.
09:46Listen, I do think this is exactly the kind of game that Minnesota bounces back with.
09:52It's been a rough trip here.
09:53I mean, did you see what the Clippers did to them last game out here?
09:59I mean, it was not pretty, giving up 153 points.
10:03I think you're going to see a better defensive effort from them.
10:06I'd be looking at maybe a Golden State team total under, Donnie.
10:10And you know what else?
10:11Anthony Edwards.
10:12Get him at 30-plus points.
10:14I think that's also probably a pretty good look here.
10:18Asking you shall receive, Joe.
10:20You can take team totals here on the predictive markets, just like the sportsbooks here.
10:24Team total for Golden State listed at 99 and a half.
10:26They stay under, Joe.
10:27A $100 investment would pay back $193.
10:31If you think some of these players will go nuts tonight and score 30-plus points,
10:34we'll look no further than Anthony Edwards.
10:36Joe, a $100 investment pays back $200.
10:39No juice on that for him to get 30-plus points in his game today.
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