As we breathe relief that the Times Square evacuation turned out to be nothing, we focus on sports picks.
Friday night is the beginning of a large sports betting weekend. Here are the best tips from around the 'net for this weekend.
From the NHL, it's Chicago vs. Vancouver. BetUs reports:
With a win on Friday, the Hawks could head back to Chicago with a chance to win this series in five, with a date with either the Sharks (very likely) or the Red Wings (doubtful). Vancouver is going to need to get that giant Blackhawk looking monkey off their back and win one at home or they are as good as toast for a second year in a row thanks to the young and very talented Chicago team.
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In the NBA, it's Cleveland vs. Boston and Phoenix vs. San Antonio. SportsBook takes a peak at both.
Lost in all of the talk about the elbow injury to LeBron James has been the fact that the Boston Celtics have thoroughly outplayed the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first two games of their second round NBA Eastern Conference playoff series. Game 3 is set for Friday evening.
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SportsBook also takes a look at the Western Conference game:
The Spurs have to win four of their next five games to advance to West Finals and even having its three stars seemingly healthy might not be enough to make that occur. It seems that Phoenix has all of its pieces meshing at this point in time and appears to be a real threat to the Lakers in the Western Conference.
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With their raucous crowd and the home court advantage I do believe we can see the Spurs get back to their basics and stay in this series. Phoenix' defense is still not one of the better ones in the league and without a doubt can be exploited by an experienced and talent laden team which these Spurs still definitely are, older or not.
San Antonio is a team that has some treads on its tires and maybe not as dangerous as in years' past but the big three is still intact and other pieces like Hill, Jefferson and Blair are really good as well.
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Matt Rivers also has an opinion on tonight's card.
San Antonio is a team that has some treads on its tires and maybe not as dangerous as in years' past but the big three is still intact and other pieces like Hill, Jefferson and Blair are really good as well.
The Suns are probably playing at too high of a level to just blown out in but after 48 minutes today this series will get tighter and I'm looking at about a 10 point San Antonio victory. His NBA pick for Spurs-Suns is also up.
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