Wednesday 12/25/19 thread for free handicapping service plays and expert predictions for NFL, NCAAF & NBA games.
Mike Wynn
Free Pick: Boston/Toronto Under 212½ Points Xmas Day
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Razor Sharp
YOUR RAZOR SHARP FREE PICK FOR WEDNESDAY: MILWAUKEE/PHILADELPHIA OVER the total of 220
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Platinum Plays
Your Free Pick: the Boise St Broncos -2½ over UTEP
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Easy Money Sports
Lee's Free Christmas Day Selection Is
New Orleans/Denver OVER 219½
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Nevada Sharpshooter
Your free winner for Wednesday : BALL ST -9½ over Portland
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Arthur Ralph
Free Play UNDER TOTAL 139 Hawaii /Geo TECH CBB game
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Vegas Steam Line
Your free winner for Wednesday: LA CLIPPER/LA LAKERS UNDER the total of 223
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High Stakes Syndicate
Free Selection for Wednesday: Denver Nuggets - 9 1/2
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Kenny Towers
Your Free Pick for Wednesday: New Orleans/Denver UNDER 218½
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Cappers Access
Raptors +3
Warriors +11
Nuggets -9-
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Jimmy Boyd
Dec 25 '19, 12:05 PM in 3h
NBA | Celtics vs Raptors
Play on: UNDER 213 -104
1* Free Pick on Celtics/Raptors under 213 -104
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Pro Computer Gambler
Dec 25 '19, 2:35 PM in 5h
NBA | Bucks vs 76ers
Play on: Bucks -2½ -109 at GTBets
NBA SYSTEM OF THE DAY: In database history (since 1995), the road teams averaging 102+ppg off of 2+ straight games scoring 100 points or more has gone 149-99-7 60.1% ATS against a team off a win averaging 102+ ppg allowed. --Take the Bucks
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Hunter Price
Dec 25 '19, 2:35 PM in 5h
NBA | Bucks vs 76ers
Play on: 76ers +3½ -105 at Bovada
1* Free Pick on 76ers +3½ -105
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Steve Janus
Dec 25 '19, 8:05 PM in 11h
NBA | Clippers vs Lakers
Play on: UNDER 222 -110
1* Free Sharp Play on Clippers vs Lakers under 222 -110
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Red Dog Sports
Dec 25 '19, 8:05 PM in 11h
NBA | Clippers vs Lakers
Play on: Lakers -125 at Bovada
LA Lakers -125
1.25 units to win 1 unit
Lebron James and the Lakers will be fired up playing their hometown rivals on Christmas day. The Clippers have a solid team but always seem to take a back seat to the Lakers in Tinseltown. It should be an exciting game with the Lakers winning.
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Ray Monohan
Dec 25 '19, 10:35 PM in 13h
NBA | Pelicans vs Nuggets
Play on: OVER 219 -110
*Christmas Day NBA Free Play*
OVER 219
The nightcap on the Christmas Day schedule sees the New Orleans Pelicans 8-23 (12-19 ATS) taking on the Denver Nuggets. 21-8 (13-14-2 ATS) Starting lineups should look like Holiday, Redick, Ingram, Favors, & Williams. For Denver Jokic, Murray, Millsap, Harris, and Barton.
The Nuggets are rolling of late and are showing the NBA that 2018/19 wasn't a fluke as they've gotten out to a 21-8 start. They're in 2nd place in the West, and still flying under most people's radar's. Leading Denver is of course the Joker. Averaging 19.9 points, 9.4 rebounds and 7.9 assists. For New Orleans without Zion everything goes thru Holiday and Ingram. Last game out Holiday finished with 21 points and Ingram scored or assisted on 21 of the Pelicans first 27 points. Lets not forget Derrick Favors, who posted 12 points and 13 rebounds. They have been playing good defense of late but they haven't played the Nuggets, and they'll have to keep up in this one. I think they can.
Really like these two teams to trade punches on Christmas Day. They can both score in bunches and neither team is scared to shoot the 3-ball, so we should get a ton of back and forth action to end our night.
Some trends to consider. The total has gone OVER in 4 of Denver's last 5 games this season, and the total has gone OVER in 7 of Denver's last 10 games against an opponent in the Southwest division. In their last 3 games head to head these two teams have averaged 222PPG, and the home team is 7-2 ATS in their last 9.
Play on the OVER 219.
Good Luck, Razor Ray.
Wednesday 5* FREE NBA O/U Play
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Bob Valentino
Your comp winner for this Christmas NBA card is the Lakers to square their city-series season numbers with the Clippers in this second meeting of the season between the teams.
These teams met on opening night with the Clippers winning it 112-102 in the debut of Kawhi Leonard. Paul George was not available that night, but will be on the floor for this round two grudge-match.
Doc Rivers' team has been trending "cool" of late as they enter this "road" game having dropped 3 of their last 5 straight up, while Frank Vogel's team has been trending "cold" with losses in a season-high 3 in a row entering this home game.
There are some big names listed on the injury report as the teams get ready to battle tonight. For the Clippers Kawhi Leonard and Patrick Beverley are both listed as questionable, while for the Lakers LeBron James and Anthony Davis are both listed as questionable, but I would guess that all of them will try their best to be on the floor for this holiday showcase game.
The Lakers may have been blowout at home by Denver in their last contest, but they did get Kyle Kuzma back in the lineup after he was missing in action with an ankle injury.
I just don't see the Lakers dropping a 4th straight.
Go with LeBron to will his team to the Christmas Night win tonight at the Staples Center.
1* L.A. LAKERS
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Mitchell Newman
Last game on the Christmas NBA 5 game slate is going to be a double-digit blowout winner on the Denver Nuggets to roll the New Orleans Pelicans.
Denver is fresh off a 113-111 nail-biter of a win at Phoenix on Monday night and now head back home having won 7 straight games. At home the Nuggets sport a 13-3 straight up mark.
New Orleans has followed a 13-game losing streak with wins in 2 of their last 3 games, but this will be their 4th straight road game over the past 7 days - and on Christmas night no less!
The Pels are just 4-12 straight up on their road and a not-much-better 5-10-1 against the spread on the road this season. Yes, New Orleans did pull a Halloween night shocker at home over Denver, 122-107, but I don't think this holiday meeting is going to produce any kind of shocker this evening in the Mile High City.
Denver allows just 102 points per game to be scored against them, while New Orleans is allowing almost 118 points per game to be scored on them. It won't take long for this game to turn into a runaway for the home team.
Play the Nuggets as they take this one over the Pelicans by a solid 15 points.
5* DENVER
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Stephen DeAngelo
For your Christmas Day freebie, we’ll lay the chalk with the Nuggets against New Orleans in the nightcap of today’s NBA quintuple-header.
Denver has followed up a three-game losing skid with seven consecutive victories, including back-to-back road wins at the LeBron-less Lakers (128-104) and Suns (113-111) on Sunday and Monday. Going back to Nov. 14, the Nuggets are 10-1 on their home floor, the lone blemish coming against the Lakers.
Admittedly, Denver hasn’t exactly been a profitable bet-on team at home, going 7-8-1 ATS. But the Nuggets are a respectable 6-4-1 ATS during their current 10-1 run at home. More importantly, they’ve cashed more tickets at home than the Pelicans have on the road—New Orleans is just 5-10-1 ATS as a visitor, part of a dismal 11-19-1 pointspread record (2-4 ATS as an underdog of more than 7 points).
Yes, the Hornets have followed up an ugly 13-game losing skid by winning two of their last three on a four-game road trip that ends tonight. But those wins came against the TWolves and Blazers—not exactly the same caliber of competition as the Pelicans will face tonight in Denver.
Lastly, this is a big revenge game for the Nuggets, who went to New Orleans on Halloween night and got spanked 122-107 as a four-point road underdog. This time, the Nuggets get the Pelicans—who are playing their fourth road game in eight nights—on their home floor on Christmas night, and they’ll be very determined to give their fans one final holiday gift: A blowout win over an outmatched opponent.
3* DENVER
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