Speaker 1: It's time to place your bets. Let's talk to the pros.
Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to betting pros and is v Joey Pa,
Speaker 1: Joe Pisapia with me today? Is the wonderful, the one,
Speaker 1: the only, Mike Randall, and it's all about the NBA.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: The All Star Break is officially over. And thank goodness too,
Speaker 1: that dunk contest finally ended. If I had to watch
Speaker 1: one more dunk missed, I don't know what I would
Speaker 1: do with myself. But it's time to look ahead to
Speaker 1: the future. That's right, a little NBA futures. We're gonna
Speaker 1: look at the Western and Eastern Conference potential winners, maybe
Speaker 1: a little stab at some finals futures.
Speaker 2: Also, I'll look.
Speaker 1: At some awards, Who's most improved, who's the MVP. There's
Speaker 1: nobody better to talk about that within our own betting
Speaker 1: pros analyst Mike Randall, who could follow on the Twitter
Speaker 1: machine at Randall rant. Mike, it's good to talk to you,
Speaker 1: my friend. It's good to see you. And look at
Speaker 1: us doing a little NBA today.
Speaker 2: Joe, weren't we just at Flex drafts? Now we're doing NBA.
Speaker 2: Time just goes on it's the greatest force in the world.
Speaker 2: Time goes on. We're here with the NBA, and thank
Speaker 2: goodness we had games on Thursday. But we got to
Speaker 2: get over that dunk contest. I mean, I grew up
Speaker 2: with Dominique Wilkins and Michael Jordan and then we went
Speaker 2: to Spud Webb and Kobe What was that.
Speaker 1: About, geez my Kingdom for Kenny sky Walker. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's where we're at right now. It was it
Speaker 1: was the build up to the constantly missing dunks where
Speaker 1: I just kind of say, no, matter what they did
Speaker 1: at the end of it, Mike, it was gonna be
Speaker 1: anti climactic. And you know what, good on Dwayne Wade
Speaker 1: and I was a Kenny Smith who basically called it
Speaker 1: what it was. So I'm very proud of those guys
Speaker 1: who kept it real.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: The three point competition was good. All Star Game is
Speaker 1: always All Star Game. It's you know, all shooting, no defense.
Speaker 1: That's what we expect of the All Star Game. That's fine,
Speaker 1: But you know, the NBA season right now, obviously, you
Speaker 1: know we're starting to get to that stretch run. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the time of year two where you've seen
Speaker 1: g who're resting maybe rest a little less. And that
Speaker 1: is always the difficult thing with the NBA is.
Speaker 2: Can you stay healthy?
Speaker 1: Can you get these guys on the court that you want?
Speaker 1: And I want to start here at the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Let's start here with some of your best bets. And obviously,
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Speaker 1: how do you see this board right now, Mike, kind
Speaker 1: of unfolding itself, and where do you want to put
Speaker 1: your money?
Speaker 2: I love the Eastern Conference, Joe, because there are so
Speaker 2: many teams that are bunched together that could win this
Speaker 2: There is really not one dominant team. Bucks has been great.
Speaker 2: I love the Bucks near and dear to my heart.
Speaker 2: But everyone else now has kind of caught up. And
Speaker 2: what's interesting is, and I'll get to my long shot
Speaker 2: in a minute, it's about styles. The best bet for
Speaker 2: me at this point is Miami. They're around plus five
Speaker 2: point fifty plus six hundred betting Pros consensus. They have
Speaker 2: perfect balance. They are six overall in defensive rating this year,
Speaker 2: eighth in offensive rating. And if you look at the
Speaker 2: structure of the team, you have Lowry at point guard.
Speaker 2: You have Jimmy Buckets who can get a big basket.
Speaker 2: Bam has come back now from the injury, so they've
Speaker 2: had other players step up throughout the season. When Bam
Speaker 2: was not there. Even Max Strus coming off the bench
Speaker 2: can hit some threes. Tyler Hero, who is the leader
Speaker 2: right now for six Man of the Year. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're talking about a player who two seasons ago in
Speaker 2: the playoffs was extremely, extremely hot. They have a style,
Speaker 2: they are not afraid of anyone. They have a great
Speaker 2: coach and Eric Spolstra. They would go there and battle.
Speaker 2: And what I like about them is if they get
Speaker 2: that one seed. Getting the one seed in the Eastern
Speaker 2: Conference is going to be huge because that two to
Speaker 2: three matchup is going to be massive. So what you
Speaker 2: would like to do is see like a Chicago and
Speaker 2: a Milwaukee battle it out and then just see them
Speaker 2: in the finals. I'm not into the nets. I don't
Speaker 2: like the Sixers trying to piece it together with the
Speaker 2: process with Harden and beat although Mbats have a phenomenal year.
Speaker 2: My favorite bet in the East is Miami around plus
Speaker 2: five to fifty plus six hundred. I think they have
Speaker 2: the style, they have the team, they have the balance,
Speaker 2: and they have the bench to step up and win
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: And the bench is such a huge component too at
Speaker 1: this time of the year two because we're getting up
Speaker 1: there in games. So if guys, do you know, miss
Speaker 1: some minutes or even miss some games, having that death
Speaker 1: goes a long way right now to winning that Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you about the nets to one hundred
Speaker 1: percent agreement there. I do not like what's going on.
Speaker 1: Let's talk go with a long shot in the East.
Speaker 1: So if that's your favorite bet, who is the team
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit further down the trophy
Speaker 1: might have a shot.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Cleveland. And what's interesting here is no
Speaker 2: one is going to buy Cleveland have plus twenty five
Speaker 2: hundred plus three thousand on betting pros consensus. Look at
Speaker 2: what they did at the trading deadline. They bring in
Speaker 2: Karris Lavert to complement Darius Garland. They have Jared Down,
Speaker 2: they have Kevin Love. What they have here is very
Speaker 2: similar in college basketball. We all saw last year that
Speaker 2: the Houston Cougars made the Final Four with defense and rebounding,
Speaker 2: something that's different than what everyone else has. That's what
Speaker 2: Cleveland has. They have a throwback team with the seven footers.
Speaker 2: They have the probable rookie of the year and Evan Mobley. JB.
Speaker 2: Bickerstaff has done a tremendous job with this team. They
Speaker 2: are young and they are naive coming into the All
Speaker 2: Star break four out of six all battling injuries here,
Speaker 2: they've won the last four to six throughout the season.
Speaker 2: Garland was injured, Rubio Sexton is gone. Lowry market and
Speaker 2: who should be back marketIn now makes Evan Mobley have
Speaker 2: the ability to sort of freelance a little more on
Speaker 2: the inside market. And had the repation with the Bulls
Speaker 2: as not being a defensive player. Now that he's with
Speaker 2: Cleveland and he's bumped down to the three, he's actually
Speaker 2: been great at getting in the lanes, making steals and deflections.
Speaker 2: Also keep in mind, Joe the Calves two and one
Speaker 2: against Milwaukee this year, two and zero against Miami, one
Speaker 2: and one against Chicago. They aren't sexy. No one really
Speaker 2: likes the Calves without Lebron on them. But they have
Speaker 2: the style, they have a unique way, and it would
Speaker 2: not surprise me if they had a magic ride here
Speaker 2: to the Eastern Conference. You're gonna give them to me
Speaker 2: at plus twenty five hundred. I have no problem with that.
Speaker 2: I like the Calves as my long shot.
Speaker 1: Calves is an interesting long shot, and look, you're not
Speaker 1: alone too. Have heard a lot of people over this
Speaker 1: past weekend talking up the Calves who and liking the
Speaker 1: moves that they've made here and the way that they're
Speaker 1: playing potentially, So if you like the heat, you have
Speaker 1: your long shot. We already said the Nets are a
Speaker 1: bit of a trap. Is there anybody else who's towards
Speaker 1: the top of this board? I see the Nets a
Speaker 1: plus two seventy five on the betting pros consensus line.
Speaker 1: I see the seventy six or two A plus three fifty.
Speaker 2: Are they a trap? Yeah? I don't like the Nets
Speaker 2: or the Sixers, this whole thing with Kyrie, with the
Speaker 2: vat they had a fantastic matchup with Milwaukee. I remember
Speaker 2: going to that game seven last year. They're playing the Bucks. Yes,
Speaker 2: if Kevin durantz tow wasn't on the three point line,
Speaker 2: who knows. The Net's good to have won a title
Speaker 2: last year, but it seems very flimsy. The Nets don't
Speaker 2: play any defense. Now they're going to try to make
Speaker 2: a move forward, but they need a healthy Kyrie. I
Speaker 2: don't like them, and I don't like the Sixers, and
Speaker 2: B could be your MVP, but I don't know if
Speaker 2: the matchup of Harden with MBID is going to win
Speaker 2: a title. Harden dominates the ball, He's almost gonna have
Speaker 2: to subject himself to be a facilitator more. And I
Speaker 2: just don't think in this situation with two alpha dogs,
Speaker 2: the way they're set up, that's gonna work for me.
Speaker 2: I understand people like it. They like the big names
Speaker 2: stars winning the NBA more than any other league. I
Speaker 2: get that. I do not like the sixers of plus
Speaker 2: three fifty. I don't want to deal with that. I
Speaker 2: don't see why you would not take the heat who've
Speaker 2: actually had a championship pedigree falling short with a solid team,
Speaker 2: a much better all around team, a much deeper team
Speaker 2: with a great coach. Why would you take six ers
Speaker 2: over them? I don't see it.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's head over to the Western Conference, where
Speaker 1: right now the consensus betting pros line has the Warriors
Speaker 1: at plus one seventy five. Some other books are DraftKings
Speaker 1: as at plus.
Speaker 2: One to eighty five.
Speaker 1: You've got them a little variance there the Suns at
Speaker 1: plus one eighty right behind them, kind of neck and neck,
Speaker 1: and there's a big drop off. Then it goes right
Speaker 1: to the Jazz at plus seven hundred. Now, the Jazz
Speaker 1: were team last year, you know, played very good defense,
Speaker 1: really played well together. But you could see there's basically
Speaker 1: the Warriors and the Suns and then the drop off.
Speaker 1: So how do you see the Western Conference board shaking out?
Speaker 2: Mike? What I actually love with the Western Conference. I
Speaker 2: don't love what happened, but I like the betting advantage
Speaker 2: is I'm going to see these Suns drop now that
Speaker 2: Chris Paul is going to be out six to eight weeks,
Speaker 2: which is Joe pretty much the rest of the regular
Speaker 2: season because it's seven weeks until the end there, it's
Speaker 2: not a totally balanced schedule. So I like the Sun's odds.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to drop. I think they're going
Speaker 2: to come back to the pack. I think they're about
Speaker 2: a five game lead over the Warriors right now, who
Speaker 2: are gonna get hot. But when Chris Paul comes back,
Speaker 2: and listen, he's thirty six years old, he's getting some
Speaker 2: valuable rest. It is the thumb on his shooting hand.
Speaker 2: But I think you're going to see the Suns develop
Speaker 2: here and their odds are going to drop. So I
Speaker 2: have no problem waiting on them and then getting them
Speaker 2: at that point. The team that I like the best
Speaker 2: are the Grizzlies. John Moran has taken his game to
Speaker 2: another level. I was saying on Twitter that you should
Speaker 2: take him over Zion Williamson. I think Morent was just
Speaker 2: a jump shot away from dominating this league, and that's
Speaker 2: what he's getting. He is going to be your most
Speaker 2: Improved Player, and the odds say that it's at minus
Speaker 2: five hundred right now. But he has a case for MVP.
Speaker 2: They are great inside with their bigs. They dominate on
Speaker 2: the boards. Desmond Bain also has a case to be
Speaker 2: most improved Player. They are a very sneaky team. Last
Speaker 2: year they're just squeaking in the playoffs. Now right now
Speaker 2: they're sitting in a fantastic spot towards the top of
Speaker 2: the Western Conference. So right now, betting pros consensus has
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies of plus twelve hundred. We've seen the Jazz before.
Speaker 2: I understand them. They're a great team. I don't see
Speaker 2: them making the finals. So the teams I like, Warriors
Speaker 2: are going to be the go ahead favorite. I don't
Speaker 2: like betting the favorite in any situation of a long
Speaker 2: sho got you go that, I'll take the Suns in
Speaker 2: a few weeks when their odds dip down. And I
Speaker 2: also like the Grizzlies with jam Morant because I believe
Speaker 2: he is good enough to carry this team right to
Speaker 2: the precipice of that Western Conference Finals. And now I
Speaker 2: just need one more series. I'll take my chances.
Speaker 1: I love it, you know, you and I see the
Speaker 1: same as like, if you're not getting good money there
Speaker 1: on the favorites, then you either stay away or you
Speaker 1: find something else you'd like to bet on. It's funny
Speaker 1: because I'm looking ahead now at the Championship odds and
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies are a plus twenty five hundred on the
Speaker 1: Betting pro consensus.
Speaker 2: So if you want to double.
Speaker 1: Down your Jama Rant narrative ear for MVP and them
Speaker 1: going to the Western Conference Finals, I mean, hey, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting long shot right there. The rest of this
Speaker 1: board looks like this. The Warriors are plus four twenty
Speaker 1: five on betting pros dot Com. Then you have the
Speaker 1: consensus line for the Suns at plus four fifty, and
Speaker 1: then it goes to the Jazz at sixteen hundred. They
Speaker 1: are Grizzlies Nuggets. So that's the way somebody's Western teams
Speaker 1: shape up in order to win. So when you're looking
Speaker 1: at finals odds right now, who kind of jumps out
Speaker 1: to you at the different consensus potentially.
Speaker 2: Well, that it's gonna follow a What it's gonna come
Speaker 2: down to me, Joe, is the way they matched up.
Speaker 2: Like I said in the Eastern Conference, the nets are
Speaker 2: going to be in an enviable situation where they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to go through a ridiculous path to get to
Speaker 2: the finals. So I'm looking for teams that could match
Speaker 2: up and have a run. What are the ones that
Speaker 2: I think you have to look at? And he's kind
Speaker 2: of like my long shot for MVP. Also, let's not
Speaker 2: count out the Mavericks with Luka Doncics. The Mavericks since
Speaker 2: January first have had one of the best defenses in
Speaker 2: the NBA. They've been phenomenal and Doncic is making a
Speaker 2: push for the MVP candidacy over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: So if you're looking for a long shot to make
Speaker 2: the finals, besides the ones that I mentioned, what you're
Speaker 2: looking for is a path. It is really similar to
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament, where it's all about the matchups. Forget
Speaker 2: what has happened before. If you have a situation where
Speaker 2: things match up right and you see them going through,
Speaker 2: that's the team to grab. Doncic has everything you need
Speaker 2: as a great player. The team is playing defense, they're
Speaker 2: buying in and they have the ability even though they've
Speaker 2: lost some players. Is poorzingis gone, they've had injuries. Now
Speaker 2: it's a hardaway. That's a team who's a real deep
Speaker 2: long shot that I think you can look at. So
Speaker 2: outside of the ones that I mentioned going to the finals,
Speaker 2: I absolutely think if you want to throw a couple
Speaker 2: dollars down, take a look at the Mavericks, who are
Speaker 2: led by a star and have a style much like
Speaker 2: Cleveland that is against what is traditional now in the NBA.
Speaker 1: All Right, would you hedge it all and take you know,
Speaker 1: take it easy Golden State Warriors at the top of
Speaker 1: the board at plus four to ten or something like that,
Speaker 1: and then go ahead and take a little long shot
Speaker 1: later on as well, or would you just continue to
Speaker 1: stick with a long shot and play those odds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Golden State is at the point where
Speaker 2: you got to get him now or you're not gonna
Speaker 2: get him at all.
Speaker 1: Clay Tom feels That's why I asked because they're in
Speaker 1: that four to one range basically right now. So that's
Speaker 1: why I was curious, would you lock that in and
Speaker 1: then start playing the board just to have a little
Speaker 1: bit of share, a little bit of comfort level, I guess,
Speaker 1: Or do you just say no, you know, let the
Speaker 1: let the favorite go and just keep playing a couple
Speaker 1: of the different long shots.
Speaker 2: If you want to grab the Warriors, take them now.
Speaker 2: Their focus for most of the year has been defense
Speaker 2: in Curry. Now Thompson came back and they've struggled defensively.
Speaker 2: But I do Joe tend to go with the teams
Speaker 2: that have styles and have players in certain positions. Come on,
Speaker 2: Looney inside tremendous, does his role rebounds. They have to
Speaker 2: get Wiggins going, but they're gonna get it right. That
Speaker 2: defense now is going to start coming back as the
Speaker 2: players get rested and get acclimated again with Thompson in
Speaker 2: the mix. So if you like the Warriors, I think
Speaker 2: you grab them now because in a few weeks, like
Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna be on the Suns because there's
Speaker 2: gonna be recency bias. People are gonna forget about them.
Speaker 2: But what you're gonna watch is Devin Booker become more
Speaker 2: of a facilitator, McCall bridges become more of a scorer,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna see this team get better and then
Speaker 2: you're gonna put a fresh, refreshed and replenished Chris Paul
Speaker 2: back in there. So if you like the Warriors them,
Speaker 2: grab them now. I'd like to wait and grab the
Speaker 2: Suns in a little bit longer for a favorite. That
Speaker 2: is all right.
Speaker 1: So we've spoken about some of the big names in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Let's see who the biggest name is going
Speaker 1: to be this year for MVP. Top of the board
Speaker 1: right now is Joe Embiid and the consensus betting pros
Speaker 1: line plus one thirty. Then Nikola Jokich at plus three hundred,
Speaker 1: Jannis at plus three fifty, so those usual suspects, and
Speaker 1: then there's your boy John Morant right now plus one thousand,
Speaker 1: the consensus lying on him plus eighteen hundred. Over on
Speaker 1: Fandel too if you're really believe in if you want
Speaker 1: to get in there, also over on bet MGM two.
Speaker 2: We'll be waiting for those lines that come out.
Speaker 1: So tell me right now, how do you see the
Speaker 1: MVP board? How would you sprinkle at chips as it were.
Speaker 2: I'm a math guy. You know that. But there is
Speaker 2: a narrative there is in you it is there is
Speaker 2: a narrativele educator, yep, but there's a narrative base Joe
Speaker 2: to a lot of these awards, and I think there's
Speaker 2: a fatigue factor with a guy like you know, and
Speaker 2: I love Giannis. He's tremendous, but I think is he
Speaker 2: gonna get his third MVP in four years, he'd have
Speaker 2: to be head and shoulders above everyone else, which I
Speaker 2: don't see right now. Djokic has been tremendous. His statistics,
Speaker 2: his value to his team are outstanding. But the problem
Speaker 2: is the Nuggets right now are in six place. Last
Speaker 2: year when he won it, they were in third. They're
Speaker 2: missing a lot of guys, No Jamal Murray, They've had
Speaker 2: injuries across the board. Michael Porter, I get that, but
Speaker 2: I think Djoki, as much as he's fantastic, is not
Speaker 2: going to be able to have his team high enough
Speaker 2: in over to overcome that. Most people will go Embiid,
Speaker 2: and I have no trouble if it's Joel Embiid. He's
Speaker 2: been fantastic for the Sixers this year. He's carrying them.
Speaker 2: His player efficiency rating is over thirty one. It's off
Speaker 2: the charts. No problem with that. I just don't think
Speaker 2: there's enough value right now with the consensus of plus
Speaker 2: one thirty. So I really want odds of plus two
Speaker 2: hundred to better if I'm going to invest the two
Speaker 2: favorite bets, I like you mentioned them first. John Morant
Speaker 2: plus twelve hundred. I love the guy. He's a lot
Speaker 2: for the most improved player. Do I think that they're
Speaker 2: going to give it to Jaw in this situation so
Speaker 2: young in his career. I don't, but he really should
Speaker 2: get some votes. They lost to the Jazz last year.
Speaker 2: Four to one is the eighth seed. Right now, they're
Speaker 2: third in the West at forty one and nineteen. If
Speaker 2: you're going by who's deserving. To me, Jaw is absolutely
Speaker 2: top three, and don't sleep on those highlights. They matter.
Speaker 2: You've seen the dunks. You saw better dunks from ja
Speaker 2: Jo in the All Star Game than he actually started
Speaker 2: the dunk contest. So he's a guy who I love.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna get it, but it's certainly
Speaker 2: worth a run because if he gets hot and some
Speaker 2: other players get injured, he could sneak in. My favorite
Speaker 2: bet to me is dong It's a plus three hundred.
Speaker 2: Here's my argument. If we ran the rest of the
Speaker 2: regular season thirty times, would Dongits win MVP at least twice?
Speaker 2: The answer is absolutely yes. Last ten games for Luca
Speaker 2: thirty five point four points, ten point three rebounds, nine
Speaker 2: point eight assists while shooting forty nine percent from the
Speaker 2: floor and over forty three percent from beyond the arc.
Speaker 2: What does that even mean? Now there's only twenty regular
Speaker 2: season games left. Here's my question. Philadelphia is thirty five
Speaker 2: and twenty three, Dallas is thirty five and twenty four,
Speaker 2: and Biid is twenty nine point six, eleven and four.
Speaker 2: Luca twenty seven, nine to nine. If he keeps going
Speaker 2: and Biid gets hurt Dallas gets hot, why not at
Speaker 2: plus three hundred. I'll take it, no problem, And you
Speaker 2: can always put a small unit on that.
Speaker 1: Of course, the same logic we're used here on the
Speaker 1: show and then the baseball season when Bryce Harper was
Speaker 1: thirty to one. Yes, it was a narrative to be
Speaker 1: had out there in the media. There was no clear winner. There,
Speaker 1: there was some fatigue with some other guys, but also
Speaker 1: most importantly, it's you don't have to go crazy on this.
Speaker 1: You just have to put a small number on it
Speaker 1: now and then as it drops down, this thirty to
Speaker 1: one can become fifteen to one in just a week's time,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, then you can double down on that.
Speaker 1: And that, to me is always the way to approach
Speaker 1: some of these because you bring it up and it's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. These awards are media awards, they're
Speaker 1: narrative driven, and yeah, with Giannis there's definitely a little
Speaker 1: bit of fatigue factor in there as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to maybe most Improved Player. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at some of the names on that board right now,
Speaker 1: anybody stand out to you for this award?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned I love job, but I just want
Speaker 2: to throw a couple names out here. If you want
Speaker 2: to go against him, you know, never know injury he
Speaker 2: had injury early year over.
Speaker 1: Yea, he can't make money on him because he's minus
Speaker 1: five hundred already in the consensus.
Speaker 2: Right, So if you're looking to go for a long
Speaker 2: shot couple here, Desmond Baan has been fantastic as teammates,
Speaker 2: So if Jah goes out for an extended period of time, look, no,
Speaker 2: further than Desmond Bain at plus six hundred has been
Speaker 2: massively improved. And what I love about Desmond ban Joe
Speaker 2: is he's got like a hit list of teams that
Speaker 2: passed on him in the draft. And Desmond ban has
Speaker 2: huge games. Remember that for NBA props against teams that
Speaker 2: passed on him. It's almost personal. He's been fantastic. So
Speaker 2: Desmond being fantastic. Job there for Memphis. Dejonte Murray has
Speaker 2: been a mini triple double for San Antonio this year
Speaker 2: has really taken it to another level. He's at plus
Speaker 2: twelve hundred, as is Darius Garland. So staying with the theme,
Speaker 2: if you believe in Cleveland as much as I do,
Speaker 2: Evan Mobley is going to be tough because he's there.
Speaker 2: He's take some votes away from Garland. But Garland could
Speaker 2: absolutely have a massive end of the year leading Cleveland
Speaker 2: to oh, I don't know, second seed maybe in the East,
Speaker 2: and could pick up some awards as well. Miles Bridge
Speaker 2: as I like, and he's had some massive, massive games,
Speaker 2: including against the Knicks recently, but I put him a
Speaker 2: step below even though he's the second favorite at plus
Speaker 2: one thousand. So de Jontay Murray Desmond Bine absolutely guys that.
Speaker 2: I like Darius Garland, some people like Anthony Simon's did
Speaker 2: a nice job with Portland. I just don't know if
Speaker 2: he can have the end of season that he needs
Speaker 2: to have for a team like Portland, which is really struggling.
Speaker 1: Memphis will travel to Minnesota on the twenty fourth. I
Speaker 1: was just looking ahead at the prop at Chie sheet
Speaker 1: to just see what that Bane prop might be.
Speaker 2: Right, It's like, oh, is it out already? Let me
Speaker 2: check that out. It's not yet.
Speaker 1: My friends tell me it should be out very shortly,
Speaker 1: though my imagine would sometime maybe tomorrow. But that's one
Speaker 1: to already start getting ahead. Listen to Mike Randall and
Speaker 1: go use the tools, make yourself some cash. So there's
Speaker 1: your Rookie of the Year conversation two we can have.
Speaker 1: We can throw that in there. But before we get
Speaker 1: to the rookie stuff, actually, is there any other award
Speaker 1: do you have a strong feeling about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: it's wide open. I know Rudy Gobert wins it all
Speaker 2: the time. I just have a feeling he missed about
Speaker 2: nine games recently. I don't know if he's going to
Speaker 2: get it again. Giannis at plus three hundred. I mean
Speaker 2: he's been dominating doing so many different things, the blocks,
Speaker 2: the steals, and then as Milwaukee gets into games that
Speaker 2: are blowouts, you really see him his full game on display.
Speaker 2: He's not just scoring. So if you think there's Giannis
Speaker 2: fatigue for the MVP of the Year, how about Giannis again?
Speaker 2: For Defensive Player of the Year. Draymond has some issue
Speaker 2: with Gobert. They compared him. He was doing the play
Speaker 2: by play with the All Star Game and he said,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be compared to Gobert. We're totally
Speaker 2: different guys. So Draymond has the motivation to sort of
Speaker 2: take this award away from Gobert, but I just don't
Speaker 2: know if he's going to be back healthy enough in
Speaker 2: order to get it. So my dark horse for Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year is McCall bridges at plus fourteen hundred. Joe,
Speaker 2: He's been great on every wing. He's been scoring more
Speaker 2: this year too, which is bringing more attention to him
Speaker 2: as a legitimate defensive Player of the Year. Has been
Speaker 2: locking down for the Suns, and now with Chris Paul out,
Speaker 2: he may get a little bit more publicity for being
Speaker 2: that player, the well rounded player that he is, because
Speaker 2: he doesn't always because it's usually Booker and Paul may
Speaker 2: be an opportunity here, so a dark horse for me.
Speaker 2: McCall bridges love him here. Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 2: plus fourteen hundred. If you don't want to go with
Speaker 2: the favorites, and if you have to pick a favorite,
Speaker 2: I go with Giannis at plus three hundred over go
Speaker 2: Bart plus one twenty five. Now, betting pros consents, is
Speaker 2: not a lot of money there to be.
Speaker 1: Made, all right, last one here, let's go to Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. We mentioned the Cleveland Cavaliers in What
Speaker 1: You Like Them. Evan Mobley's been a big part of
Speaker 1: that and he is minus eight thirty five right now,
Speaker 1: so not a whole lot of movement there. It seems
Speaker 1: like this award might have gotten away. Is there any
Speaker 1: way anybody else could be considered for this besides Mobile
Speaker 1: at this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna be Kate Cunningham because Detroit is
Speaker 2: not really winning a ton of games, and he's been
Speaker 2: in and out of the lineup with injuries. So he's
Speaker 2: at plus twelve hundred. He's the third on betting pros.
Speaker 2: I don't like him. You know, Josh Getty has been
Speaker 2: outstanding here with an injury. Is Shae gilds Ers Alexander
Speaker 2: he's been putting up. I think he put up three
Speaker 2: consecutive triple doubles before the All Star break. So if
Speaker 2: something were to happen to Mobiley and Guiney continues to
Speaker 2: do this triple double machine is what he is, you
Speaker 2: could definitely go there. Long shot for me is Scottie
Speaker 2: Barnes at plus twelve hundred. They want Scotty Barnes to
Speaker 2: take over the point guard role Toronto. And what I
Speaker 2: like about the Raptors here with Nick Nurse is he
Speaker 2: plays his starters a ton of minutes. He is one
Speaker 2: of the few coaches in the NBA that will stay
Speaker 2: with those starters. So Barnes is going to get opportunities
Speaker 2: to make plays. Van Vlietz had a great first half,
Speaker 2: but he was banged up a little bit. So in
Speaker 2: terms of a pathway, if something were to happen to Mobili,
Speaker 2: if Barnes is really given the keys to the offense,
Speaker 2: you know he's going to see more minutes than anyone
Speaker 2: on this list, and he absolutely would have a chance
Speaker 2: to perform, but it's a long shot because Mobiley is
Speaker 2: just so special. I don't know how he fell the
Speaker 2: number three for Cleveland, but God bless him. They got
Speaker 2: themselves a great player, a guy who can pass, a
Speaker 2: big man who can defend, who's only going to get
Speaker 2: better at age twenty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like Mobley's the guy, so but who knows.
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