Name: NBA Christmas Day Recap & Friday Night Betting Preview
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Description: Brad Thomas joins to highlight the Christmas games, spotlighting the Spurs' upset over the Thunder and playoff discussions. He then previews tonight's slate.

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Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid. Man, the NBA I thought did a really good job on Christmas Day. A lot of really competing, uh, competitive and exciting games led by, uh, perhaps one of the bigger upsets of the season, which is the gift that keeps on giving in the holidays. That's the San Antonio Spurs and their ability to have the kryptonite for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Let's bring in Brad Thomas to break this all down, Brad. I was on the air yesterday during this game. And some others, and uh Gabe was my co-host here, one of the other hosts here, and my point is, and I, I guess I would make the same one to you, is that I feel like we just as analysts do a poor job of remembering things that happened 4 months before. I feel like we're gonna get to the playoffs. I feel like there's a chance San Antonio is gonna play Oklahoma City, and everyone's just gonna roll with Oklahoma City at that point, forgetting that the Spurs look every bit as in a head to head matchup, look every bit as good. As the Thunder do, so I, I just, I, I'm gonna have to put it in my mind to remember when OKC wins every game the rest of the season, when they sweep every series the rest of the season in the playoffs, that when they get to the Spurs, I gotta go the other way. I feel like you have to, right? But the Spurs are a really good team outside of just beating the Thunder, right? They're 23 and 7. they have owned the Thunder, but what I really liked about what the Spurs have done is they made the Thunder have to think. And what I mean by that is, there have been multiple times where the Thunder are trying to tweak their rotation to match up well. Against the Spurs. But the Thunder didn't play bad per se in, in schematics. They really just didn't make shots. They thought they shot 38% from the field and a lot of wide-open misses. SGA would get into the paint, pass the ball, guy will be wide open and they just brick the shot. I think shots will fall a little bit differently when there's something a little bit more on the line. I think right now De'Aaron Fox is sort of uh him and Wemby and then Castle have been like the 3s, like the big 3 of San Antonio. Fox had 29 yesterday. He had 3 3s, 12 of 19 from the field, and again, when you beat a team like this as often as they do, I'm gonna remind Brad in April of these games when Brad takes OKC. No, I'm just kidding. Let's see what happens here. Uh, OK, so, uh. Uh, I'm gonna remind you, I'm gonna remind you. Knicks Cavs, uh, yesterday, that was one of the first games on the board, the, uh, game that went back and forth quite a bit. Knicks end up winning there, pretty much at the buzzer, 126 to 124. It's been a heck of a run for New York here throughout that NBA cup and even beyond, and I just wonder. If they can get themselves, I, I think probably I would say, uh, Brad, if they get themselves a top 2 seed, that's kind of where they wanna be. Anything beyond that, you're going on the road, right? To play somebody when you go down the stretch. But right now, the Knicks seem to be unbeatable at MSG. Yeah, I think they can do it, and it's a lot has to do with Jalen Brunson who's playing at an MVP level. There were times in that game where I was one of this Knicks team was able to adapt to things that were happening to him. Early in that game, the Cavaliers were running a lot of zone, and the Knicks couldn't get any penetration, which felt weird because most of those players are Villanova team and Big East is all zone basketball, right? But they were able to just kind of lean on Jalen Brunson late in the game and outscore them 42 to 28 in that fourth quarter, and Kolle comes in and plays great defense on that block on uh Donovan Mitchell in the fast break. I think that changed a lot of momentum as well. Let's get to some games in the NBA tonight. Most of these teams did not play yesterday, and so naturally, uh, those teams will celebrate the holiday today. Uh, no celebrating the Miami Heat, Brad, here in South Florida. All the fans have pivoted away from the Dolphins, and they've pivoted away, uh, from the Heat, and they're all in now on the Hurricanes. So the Heat's very lucky that they're getting to slide by playing the worst basketball of any team essentially right now in the NBA. If the Hurricanes were out, I think there'd be a lot more focus. Hawks minus 3 tonight, total of 247.5. What is going on here, Brad, with Miami? I mean, this is, Like the worst run that they've had until, like, remember when they broke up the big three, they were bad for a period of time, but they haven't gone through a stretch like this in years. It's really bad, and I think it's only gonna get worse, right? They're 2 and 8 in their last 10 games, and now Bam Adebayo is out for this game. So what are they going to do? Luckily for them though, they are playing against the Hawks team who are on an equally bad streak, right? 2-8 in their last 10, 36, and 1 against the spread in that time. Um, I, I think Atlanta wins this because they're just really trying to get that continuity back together. When you play without your superstar for such a long stretch of the first part of the season, then they come back, it disrupts that momentum or disrupts that rhythm that they have. I, I think they bounce back, but I, I think if you want bet in this game, you have to take Trae Young double-double. I was gonna take his assist number at 10.5 plus 105, but I think he gets the 10 points, so I get one less assist. Um, 12 assists in his last three games is the average, and he's averaging 18.5 potential assists. The ball is gonna be in his hands, and he is going to look to distribute. His minutes are starting to get back closer to those starter minutes that he had uh last season before his injury, so I think Trae Young is a really good double-double candidate at -120. Celtics playing great basketball. Obviously, Jalen Brown has taken the Jayson Tatum role and run with it. They're 8.5 point favorites tonight against the Pacers. I understand even though Indiana played really well the other night, you gotta make these lines what they are because the Pacers are one of the worst teams in the NBA. Total 221.5. Does Boston keep it rolling tonight in Indiana or does, do the Pacers have an upset in them this evening? I actually like the Celtics. I, I think that line was set pretty fairly, um, but the, the, the Pacers just go through these periods in their game where they're the best team in the NBA and the worst team in the NBA. They don't have enough superstar power, obviously with Halliburton out to kind of play an entire game of really strong basketball. The Celtics are playing much better now. I think they covered 8.5, but it's in Indiana, so there's no reason for me to actually take that spread. Magic tonight in your hometown, Brad, taking on the New Orleans Hornets, uh, Charlotte Hornets, excuse me, plus in New Orleans, where did I get that from? Plus 6.5 are the Hornets, 231.5. Uh, Charlotte's been brutal. Magic have been going through a little up and down too. Yeah, the Magic have been going up and down, especially covering, right? They're 18 and 1 against the spread, so when they have these larger spreads of 5 or more, they're still not covering. Uh, but I, I think the Magic winning cover. I really like Anthony Black though. Anthony Black over 4.5 rebounds, plus 130. Anthony Black's not just hitting these. Numbers by getting maybe 5 rebounds, 6 rebounds. He's getting 789, 11 rebounds. He's gone over this in 9 of his last 11 games as well, but more importantly is how he's doing it. With Jalen Suggs out, he's igniting the offense. He's getting rebounds and pushing them in transition. So I think the plus 130 is a price that you just have to take. Finally, the LA Clippers won a game this week. It's a rarity in the NBA, Brad. They finally won. They're favorite tonight, they get lucky. Maybe they get two in a row tonight against the Blazers. What do you think? Yeah, they beat two pretty good teams. Um, I'm still not trusting them. They're still 3 and 7 in their last 10, and they're really bad on the road. Uh, 9, what are they, uh, 3 and 13 on the road. It's a slow team. Portland plays really fast. I like the Trail Blazers to cover and win. All right, plus 124 on the money line. Brad, thanks for coming on. Have a great weekend. We'll see you next week. Take care.

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