Name: NBA Cup Finals: Knicks vs. Spurs Game Preview & Picks
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Description: NBA Cup final tonight: Knicks vs. Spurs! Key stats, line shifts in focus. Don't miss out! Donnie Rightside and Joe Raineri give their best bets and picks.

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A quick one here, Joe. The NBA Cup, Spurs, and the Knicks tonight. Knicks, a slight favorite at -2.5 despite the public seemingly being on the San Antonio Spurs. Joe, give me a quick spread line for Spurs, Knicks tonight. You nailed it, Donnie. Public is all over the Spurs. Only the line appears to be growing for the Knicks. Keep an eye on that total as well, Donnie. That appears to be getting a ton of love in the market this morning. Joe gave you the Steelers last night. I gave you the Utah Jazz outright in overtime last night. We'll be back for more hot topics. You wanted scoring in the association, you got it. You wanted an underdog to play well in elevation, you got that as well. Best bet last night, winner on the show for me was the Utah Jazz getting 28 points from the Dallas Mavericks, winning that game outright, 140 to 133. Now, we look at the Jazz and say, 140 is a lot. How much is 40 itself? Cooper Flagg dropped 42 points last night as an 18-year-old. And you see that tweet on the screen there. 18-year-olds in NBA history with a 40-point game. Cooper Flagg, end of list. 18 years old, beating up on grown men, Joe. Yeah, I mean, unbelievable, uh, Donnie, and, and signs where we've seen this, right? I mean, we saw this when he played with the Olympic team and was practicing with the Kawhi Leonards of the world, right? And he was basically dominating. So we all knew he had the, the talent, and it was just a matter of time this year. He started out slow, but don't forget. They were asking him to play point guard because they didn't have anybody healthy. Kyrie's still not there. They have figured some things out there in Dallas, and now look at him, man. He, and get, get ready for this, between Cooper Flagg, Victor Webayama, and yeah, I gotta tell you, the NBA, the next generation of stars are very much alive and well here this season. No, it certainly is. How about alive and well, some of the pay for the NBA Cup, the teams and the players who play in it. Now, if you are a superstar with a ton of money, money is money. You want to make it here. How about the players who win the championship get $530,000 here. If you do lose the championship game, it's $2120 a man right here. Not bad work. And when you understand, some of these guys make $40.50 dollars, and $60 million a year, maybe it's a drop in the bucket, Joe, but those guys hanging on at the end of that bench right there, basically doubling their salary, it feels like, as a young rookie or just a guy that's on a 10-day contract, that's fantastic money, man. Show up, winning. You might not even get in the game and get an extra $530 in your pocket, not too shabby. No, you can't go wrong, uh, there, Donnie. Although the, you know, the 6th man on an NBA bench, I feel, still makes 12 to $15 million a year, which is still kind of laughable here. So, but yeah, it's not, you know, a lot of guys there could certainly use uh the money there, some of those guys. Guys like you said, uh, scratching and clawing their way on the team, uh, but ultimately, I don't know how many of those guys we're gonna see on the court here tonight, uh, between the Spurs and the Knicks. It feels like a lot of those guys are gonna be locked up for a very, very long time on these teams. Get a Lambeau at that point, man. Hey, man, won that cup championship, I spend my 5300 on a Lambeau here, drive around the corner, have some fun, and surely, a lot of that money might go to tipping tonight, whoever wins because there will be a party at a certain, you know, strip resort, I would assume in Las Vegas. So, a lot of fun to be had, but there is a game tonight. Joe, it is the NBA Cup Final. It is the Spurs. It is the Knicks as the Knicks, a 2.5 point favorite over the Spurs and a total, which was at 227.5 as the look aheadline, Joe. Now we're seeing 232.5 to 233.5 on the live number. People betting that over tonight in the cup final between the Spurs and the Knicks. Lot of money towards the over, which is interesting because over the last couple of weeks, uh, the Knicks have been, uh, top 5, in defensive efficiency. They're actually really starting to defend here in a big, big way, which, listen, we remember Thibs, right? Uh, his years there with the Knicks, he, he, you know, from game 1 to this point in the season. And he probably already burned out half his guys, but not so much with Mike Brown right now. They're really starting to show up and show out. And in this game, uh, call me crazy, uh, but man, watching all the, the clips and the tape out, San Antonio celebrated like they won the NBA championship after that win against OKC. Not to mention Victor Wambala. is gonna be on a minutes restriction here. I mean, this is nice, but he only played 21 minutes, 22 minutes in that game there. You know, it feels like the Knicks stars are gonna be on that court a lot longer than Web Ayama is gonna be. So it feels like a big advantage to the New York Knicks, but the public loves themselves some San Antonio Spurs right now. Oh, they do. Take a look at some of those player points props in this game tonight. Victor Webuyama, 21.5. You take a look at the Aaron Fox, he's at 20.5 for the New York Knicks. Jalen Brunson, 30.5, Karl-Anthony Towns at 20.5. Points are expected tonight, Joe. Usually is a superstar-driven sport, specifically in the biggest moments like the final of the NBA Cup. If you're looking at some of those player prop points bets here tonight, Joe, does any one of those get your attention? Well, uh, just for perspective, Brunson's averaging 36 a game ever since Miles McBride went down, and he's still not available to them. So, uh, you know, he has been an unstoppable force, and you've got some young guys, I mean, Stephen Cassel. It's been tremendous, but Brunson's gonna eat him alive, uh, in this game here. So the fact that if I can get Brunson 6 points under what he's already averaging in a big game, you know, he's gonna show up tonight and show out. I got no problem backing Brunson over his point problem. Taking a look at some of those rebound props tonight, you know, the guys get after it on the boards. Webayama, 10.5 at a plus 108 price. The other big man across there, Carl Anthony Towns, he also is listed at 10.5 at a 138 price. I like this game as a buy, buy, buy measure, Joe, on a certain side, which we'll give it a little bit later in the show, but you should get some entertainment. You should get. It's some fun. It's a big game atmosphere there in Vegas. And also, the NBA understands that they want to push this NBA Cup, which I don't really care about it, but the final I do once you get there, I just don't know how you actually get there, the mathematics involved. But here we are with the San Antonio Spurs and the Knicks. Only one game tonight, Joe. It is the NBA Cup, so all eyes will be on attention there tonight, 8:30 p.m. start. Yeah, which means you're gonna get a ton of public money here, and you, like I said, tickets and money, we've already seen on San Antonio. The line is frozen, right at 2.5, Donnie, for the Knicks, but every metric I know of points to the New York Knicks, and maybe the biggest one is experience. And, you know, the Knicks have been here and done this before. The Knicks. When they beat Orlando in the semi-final, Donnie, it looked like another, OK, we won a game on a, uh, on a, you know, just a regular season went great. It was business as usual. San Antonio, for, for as young as they are, as talented as they are, uh, OK, can you get up for a second game as much as you were for that, uh, for that OKC game? We shall find out. No, we certainly will. And by the way, some of those fun markets, you could bet on like the first basket, sort of like doubling up. It's you just say in the NFL in a touchdown prop, hey, take two plus money guys, get the plus money if one of them hits. Victor Webayama plus 430 to score the first basket. Jalen Brunson 6 to 1 price to score the first basket, Joe, that's where I'm going. If you had a first basket scorer tonight, Joe, who are you going with? OGN and Obi, 12 to 1. You're going a little bit down that list. Oh, Miles McBride, uh, I'm sorry, McHale Bridges. That's who I'm going with. McHale Bridges. Get a guy from Nobody scores for 8 minutes there. You come off the bench, get that 1st 2 to 0 lead. That's gotta be a big time payday, people. For me, I'm gonna go to the NBA Cup Final, and how about this. The Spurs getting 60% of the tickets, which means the Knicks only about 40%. That line opened up at 2.5%, still sits at 2.5. The Knicks minus 2.5 tonight, Louisville and the Knicks. What a combination. Just like your boy DRS and Joe Ranieri. We'll be back at it early tomorrow morning. Make sure you join us.

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