Name: NBA Christmas Day Games: Cavaliers vs. Knicks & More
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But we do have big-time NBA basketball, a 12 o'clock game, a 2:30 game, an 8 o'clock game, a 5 o'clock game, and a 10:30 game tomorrow, which starts in the Gardens. The Cavaliers and the Knicks, Joe, we take a look at those look-ahead numbers, minus 1.5. Whoa, look what we got today. 6 and 6.5 on the board for the Cavaliers and the Knicks to get your day started on Christmas Day, Joe. Is it a Christmas bonanza for the Knicks or can the Cleveland Cavaliers stay under a touchdown and get that cover? Well, it'll be a 3rd game in 4 nights for the Cavs, cause they just finished, they had another game last night against New Orleans at home, they had a game against Charlotte the night before, so, it's gonna be interesting uh with the Cavs here on Christmas Day to kick it off. And by the way, Who's playing for the Knicks because there weren't a lot of guys in that lineup last night out outside of Karl-Anthony Towns, and Enobi didn't play, Brunson's not playing. Who exactly is playing for the Knicks is what I'd like to know, uh, tomorrow, uh, at least by tomorrow before I place this, uh, before I place this wager. Revenge is a dish served best cold, I believe something like that is what they say, Joe. But take a look at the San Antonio Spurs on their home court here. Oh, that home cooking was good last night, as we told you, 40+ points in the 4th quarter. We now have a Spurs Thunder rematch on Christmas Day at 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon and a spread of -9.5 for OKC. Revenge on the mind of the Thunder. Can they get that, Joe? Or the Spurs go, Hey, you can get your win. We can still get the cover though. Well, listen, the Spurs beat them on a neutral court, the Spurs beat them at home. Now they're gonna have to go to OKC where they have been pretty formidable and that place is gonna be rocking, so, uh, certainly advantage Thunder, but it's just good to see the Thunder as less than a double digit. Favorite against somebody on Christmas. Uh, I'm wondering after two wins now, what exactly are you gonna get? I don't know that the Spurs are emptying the tank here to try and beat OKC on their own home court. This could be a rather easy win for the Thunder. I gotta tell you also, this next game here, the Golden State Warriors, you got some lines on the move, Joe. Opening look and look-ahead line was 4.5 as a favorite towards the Warriors against the Dallas Mavericks. We now see 8 and 8.5 on the board and a total of 227.5. Is it Christmas? Do we make up with gifts here between Draymond and Steve Kerr? What are we thinking here today as an 8-point favorite for those Golden State Warriors? Yeah, well, I mean, listen, Dallas, a huge win last night against the Nuggets, right? Another team that'll have, uh, you know, 3rd game in 4 nights here with the Dallas Mavericks. But, you know, everything about Dallas is about the maturation here of Cooper Flagg. Another 33 points last night, 9 assists, 9 boards, uh, and to beat the Joker and the Nuggets, uh, even by a point is pretty darn impressive here. And if you're Golden State, Uh, you know, what if you gotta figure this out, like figure out what's going on with Dre. Are we hitting the reset button? Are we not? Because it, it can't just be Steph Curry or bust, right? If it is, they're not winning that game tomorrow against Cooper Flag in Dallas. Sorry to say, especially if Anthony Davis plays. Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, 8 p.m. Christmas night here. And by the way, the Lakers getting yelled at by their head coach for not playing very good defense here. And also, the look-ahead line for this was the Los Angeles Lakers, Joe, a -2.5 point favorite. That has now swung to a 3.5 point favorite for the Houston Rockets. And a total now of 228.5 up from the look-headline of 223.5. Houston, the favorite, Joe, do we agree? Of course you agree. I mean, listen, is Dacic playing? Is he not? He didn't play last night, and Dylan Brooks and everybody else just absolutely destroyed them, uh, 132 to 108. So, I, I'm guessing he sat this one out because he's gonna be playing on the Christmas Day game. You gotta have Luca out there, right? They did get Reeves back last night who had 17 points, so that's. Good news for the Lakers, but they're gonna have to score 125, 30 points. Don't need to beat anybody good. They beat the not so good teams. They get destroyed by the really good teams. Houston's a really Timberwolves Nuggets. Joe, Timberwolves Nuggets gonna close it out on Christmas night, 10:30 p.m. Eastern, a 4-point favorite here for the Denver Nuggets and a total of 238.5. What do you got quickly in elevation on Christmas night. The Joker in Denver on Christmas at that price, uh, every time, every time. Christmas Eve edition of the Early Line of raid here on the Sports Grid Network. No better place to be. You might still be wrapping gifts, getting ready. Maybe you're on your way out to sit down and have some fun with your family, or you're actually upset you're going to see your family. Hey, man, some people have to just get down like that. It's with DRS. It's Joe Rainiere. It's Coach JY Coach, a lot going on in the NBA. We're gonna talk about in just a few moments. How is your holiday season beginning right now? Been off to a good start, a little bit better than what's going on down by the bay with a little bit of drama, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, let's get right into it. Steve Kerr talking about Draymond Green. Let's get this first clip in. Would you describe the, the nature of the conversation you Draymond had on the bench in the 3rd quarter before he went to the locker room? Yeah, we got, we got into it, obviously, and, and, um, you know, I took the time out just because I thought we lost our focus there a little bit. So, uh, we handed out a little bit and, um, you know, he made his decision to go back to the locker room to cool off and uh That's all I'm gonna say about it. It's everything, everything is private and, uh, yeah, I got, I got nothing further to. Would you, I mean, he didn't played the last 20 minutes. Would you have gone back? All right, let's get a take now. There's two sides of every story that we want to get into before I throw it back to JY. Let's get green on Kerr here. How about that? Draymond, what happened and why did you leave the bench? Um, Temper spilled over and I just thought it was best that I got out of there. I don't think there was a situation where it was going to get better. So, it was just. Best to remove myself, you know, um, that's it. What caused the argument? Basketball, you know, um. It's what we do. We play basketball. It's an emotional game. You know, people lose their emotions. Sometimes it happens. It is what it is. You know, we've been at this now for a long time, you know. Coach, we've all had arguments on the set. We all like to get our points across, but we never leave the set here when it's all going down. Draymond left in the middle of an NBA game. What is going on? I'll, I'll tell you what, Donnie, nothing like Steve Kerr says, everything's in private when it happens in public. I mean, it, this is just, I mean, it, it, it goes to show you that even at his mature age, I guess I would say, Draymond Green just hasn't grown up. Draymond Green, the game before he got thrown out. Steve. Kerr defended him and that was his 21st ejection of his career only to be topped by our guy straight from Philadelphia, Simon Gratz high school legend Rasheed Wallace. So now we're sitting here, the next game and you get into it with your coach and get into it so bad that you can't deregulate yourself. You have to leave the bench. Not only leave the bench, leave the bench and don't even come back. Now, obviously, Golden State won that game, but this is a Warriors team that is 15 and 15, got to a great start. They're in the 8th slot in a loaded Western Conference, and I don't know if this team's good enough to make the playoffs. So if Golden State's gonna be anything, Of substance, Draymond Green's antics have to stop. He has to be engaged and playing well for Golden State. Otherwise, guys, they're not making the playoffs. Mm. It, it's amazing, just grown men and that, that I got, that's an emotional game. Shouldn't you at this point, coach, have control of your emotions, especially when it's against your coach or your own team? Like, at some point, we gotta stop making excuses here for Draymond, right? And, uh, but they've given him contract after contract, so, uh, you know, you made your bed, Golden State, so now you just gotta sleep in it. Yeah, I mean, and, and this is the guy that's got into it with numerous people. We could talk about the oncore arguments he's got with Kevin Durant. We could talk about him knocking out Jordan Poole in practice. We could talk about how he interacts with everyone in that organization. See, here's the thing, Joe. It doesn't get old until you stop winning. When you're winning and winning championships, oh, we also forgot him kicking LeBron in the nuts up 3 games to 1, which got a suspension, allowed LeBron to come back and win that series. But we'll, we'll dismiss that championship that they should have won. But to me, at the end of the day, Draymond's just gotta be a better version of himself. I get the fire, I get the passion, and the coaches, you love guys to have emotion, unless that emotion turns negative. And now it's become negative, and now it's back to back games. And now you go from Steve Kerr defending a technical foul in the Phoenix game versus Dylan Brooks to now trying to sidestep questions of Draymond's behavior, the Knicks. Now, if we take a look at that Christmas Day slate, you do find yourself with a Golden State Warriors game against the Dallas Mavericks, but maybe, like all these games are really good. The one I want to bring up first before even this Golden State game, San Antonio Spurs and OKC. We just saw last night a 40+ point fourth quarter by the San Antonio Spurs, the dispatch of OKC by 20 points. You know OKC wants revenge, coach, but they're favored by 9.5. Do they get revenge and cover or do the Spurs go, no, no, nah, we got your number now? I don't know if they got their number, but I'll tell you this much. That win that they had over in the NBA Cup, I think opened up their eyes. Remember that, that game, you know, Donnie, they were down big and they made that big 13 to 0 run. This is the first team that I've seen this year literally punch back. And not only punch back, keep Punching. So now the bullies have now gotten bullied by a young team that I thought was gonna make the playoffs. We started talking about all these other teams in the West, whether it's Houston or Denver or the Lakers, right? Guys, the biggest threat to OKC. is maybe the 2nd youngest team in the NBA and that's the Spurs. And if WeB stays healthy and gives you what he gives you, with that depth, they're a legit title contender right now because I think they, they've learned how to win. Coach, we take a look also tomorrow, the Cavaliers and the New York Knicks. 12 o'clock start. Your Knicks at home, 6-point favorites over the Cavs in a total of 238.5, up from 2:30.5, coach, in the garden on the biggest day of the year. Everyone should be healthy for New York. Obviously, no Evan Mobley for the Cavs. They're just a hot mess. Everything broke right for them last year. It's gone the opposite direction this year. I will say this, I like the Knicks to win the game in the cover. The big story we're gonna have with Cleveland coming into the new year is, at this point, if it's not working, do they break it up? Meaning Mobley or Allen or Darius Garland. Someone may have to get moved to jumpstart that team cause they're stuck in neutral. Coach, by the way, I was taking a little peek yesterday at the Big East. I thought Villanova might be the right move over Seton Hall. They come away with that victory. The Cats could be back here. Big East basketball. You absolutely got to love it, coach. Thanks for joining us on Christmas Eve. Take us to the break with a jumper. Real slim pickings today, which means we extend the courtesy to our hosts and guests here. You can pick something that might not be on Christmas Eve. So Joe, the floor is yours. It's Christmas time. Where are the gifts for the people? Where are you going with this? Well, tonight, Donny, uh, I am uh gonna, yeah, they're actually playing, I believe, Belarus handball right now going on on Christmas Eve, but yes, I will not under any circumstances be involved in that. I will, however, on Christmas Day be involved in the association, and listen, I think when you look at the Rockets and the Lakers. Uh, they will have Luca back, and they do have Reeves back, and let's face it, Luca's not going to return and play defense for the Lakers. They just got torched for 132 points last night against the Suns. In the meantime, the Rockets on the road against the Clippers last night. Allowed the Clippers to boat race them and drop 128 points. I'm sorry, there is not going to be a ton of defense played. I think there's gonna be a ton of scoring. Uh, I am taking the over with the Rockets and the Lakers at 228.5. I think this thing lands much closer to 240.

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