NBA Postseason Best Bets (5/17)
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/9)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The trade deadline is over, and although no stars changed teams, there were several moves that made good teams better and should make the postseason even more competitive. The Knicks and Mavericks each added players who fix problems and add more dynamism to each squad. The Suns, 76ers and Thunder […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/8)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s NBA trade deadline day, and as I type this several players are being swapped around with dozens of draft picks. Good teams are trying to improve without moving any of their key players. That means using draft picks with players not getting minutes to acquire players who can bring […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/6)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s time for a TNT Tuesday of NBA action. We have mostly nonconference matchups with a few division games as well. Nonconference games are always interesting because these teams don’t play each other as often, but they can be harder to handicap because there is less reason for each team […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/5)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We only have six NBA games Monday as the league creeps closer to the All-Star break, which begins Feb. 16. There is also the trade deadline looming at 3 p.m. ET Thursday. This is a messy time of the schedule, and it requires us to be very careful and vigilant […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/2)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We have just a week left until the NBA trade deadline, and rumors are flying everywhere. This can be tough on some teams, as players aren’t sure of what jersey they’ll be wearing in a few days. Locker rooms can get nervous and players looking to get out of town […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (2/1)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s a TNT Thursday, which means we get to watch the best studio show in all of sports and some potentially interesting NBA matchups.  I bet this foursome looked much better at the start of the season, but the ravages of injury and poor performance have muddied the water. […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/30)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We managed to survive a messy Monday slate and even win a little money to get us rolling into Tuesday’s TNT Tuesday action. We have five games with a few interesting matchups surrounded by a few games ripe with player availability and schedule fatigue concerns. It’s a rich tapestry of […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/29)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! I get it. You’re probably still celebrating your Chiefs bet or being bummed about your Ravens/49ers parlay, but the National Basketball Association persists. It’s a long season that can be tough, but at the same time, it’s nice to know that there will always be a professional basketball game being […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/26)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s a big NBA slate on this Friday night, but a very messy one. We have more interconference matchups, fatigue concerns, potential lookahead spots and questions about player availability. It’s tough, but this is life as an NBA handicapper in January before the trade deadline.  There are a lot […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/25)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s a TNT Thursday night that features two great conference matchups and a few interesting nonconference games to enjoy. The Boston Celtics play the Miami Heat, and that is appointment viewing. I should stay awake late and watch the Sacramento Kings play the Golden State Warriors, but I live in […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/23)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! What a night in the Association we had Monday. Joel Embiid scored 70 points, the most points ever scored by a Philadelphia 76er in one game and tied for the 12th most ever scored in a single game. Even more interesting was that Embiid was not guaranteed to have scored […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/22)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend of watching football. If you happen to be a Buffalo Bills fan, it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. To be honest, I did watch some football, but I kept the NBA game on my iPad. […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/19)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Happy Friday to you all, but my condolences to the family of Dejan Milojevic. The Golden State Warriors head coach suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away Wednesday morning. This is a place where the NBA angles are generally the most important parts of any story, but not today. […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/18)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s TNT Thursday! I’m sure you’re sick of reading about how much I love the TNT broadcast, but I feel it’s my duty to draw as much attention to it as possible in the hopes that we see more of it.  There must be several if not dozens of […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/16)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! TNT Tuesday is here! For big chunks of the season, the TNT crew only works Thursday night games, but we sometimes get lucky enough to see them on a Tuesday night. That might mean that we see fewer games, but we tend to see better matchups of the league’s better […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/15)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Please make sure you spend some time today reflecting on the good Dr. King’s words and messages. It’s easy to find his speeches online and they are full of wisdom, accountability and calls to action for a better tomorrow. As for today, we’ve […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/12)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We have a jam-packed slate of 10 NBA games Friday to help you start your weekend. This may be a surprise, but we are almost halfway through the season, with most teams having played at least 38 of their 82 games already. It’s often said that the NBA All-Star game […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/11)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s a TNT Thursday with two potential playoff previews for us to enjoy. It’s still very early in the season, but teams still raise their level when facing a squad they may have to play in April or May.  These are opportunities to test out plays or schemes you […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/9)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s not a TNT Tuesday, but maybe one of these Tuesdays it will be. Instead of watching the best studio show in all of sports, we’ll have to resort to NBATV and local broadcast crews through NBA League Pass. The good news is that we have five games that may […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/8)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Last week on “The NBA Regular Season,” we saw the Lakers and Warriors somehow get worse, a trade that benefited both teams and so much more. January can be a tough time for NBA fans because teams are positioning themselves for the trade deadline and beginning to rest their best […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/5)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We have a jam-packed slate of games Friday, with a few potential playoff previews, but a lot of injury report and fatigue nonsense we’ve come to expect from regular season NBA basketball.  I’ll spill the beans right now — We have 14 games, and I can only recommend one […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/4)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! TNT Thursdays have finally returned! I assume all my complaining in this piece made its way up to Adam Silver, who then rectified the situation. Now, I’m not sure why they chose to play only two games, especially one involving a team that is not trying to win games, but […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (1/2)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! I hope you had an excellent holiday season and are ready for the race to the Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline. Rumors spread like wildfire and teams suddenly change directions or lockers suddenly fall apart. Â We saw our first deal as the New York Knicks swapped RJ Barrett, Immanuel […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/29)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The NBA regular season rolls on, with 10 games Friday and plenty of intrigue, injury issues and inane matchups. I’m excited to see how the Celtics respond to almost losing to the Pistons, and Thunder/Nuggets could be a preview of the Western Conference Finals. The Lakers aren’t even playing, but […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/28)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Kudos to anyone who bet unders for Mikal Bridges and Cam Thomas Wednesday, and my condolences to anyone who bet their overs. I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the two Nets players were on the court for just the first quarter. This wasn’t widely broadcast news, but there were […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/26)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are ready for the race to the NBA trade deadline. The season in the Association has a few key dates that define certain parts of the schedule. Deadline day is Feb. 8, and the closer we get to that day, the […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/25)
Merry Christmas, and welcome to Hoops with Noops! Holidays and time with family can’t stop the NBA, and therefore they can’t stop me! In all seriousness, I hope you read this quickly, place your bets and focus on time with loved ones. Christmas is a magical season not matter how you celebrate.  I love […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/22)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Happy Friday and Merry Almost Christmas! I love Christmas with the NBA, but we’ve still got a few more days’ worth of basketball before we get there. Every team has the day off Sunday, so Friday and Saturday are jam-packed.  Several teams will be playing back-to-backs or three games […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/21)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! I often complain about the lack of NBA basketball on national TV on Thursdays, but I will not be doing that here. Regular season games in December are back with a vengeance. We have eight matchups and all of them feature a team or teams in a bad schedule spot […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/19)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s TNT Tuesday, and I’m excited not only for the best studio show in sports, but also some fascinating basketball games. How will a team without its top draft pick play on the road against one of the better teams in the East that’s playing better each night? A star […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/18)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The NBA season rolls along with just a week until the Christmas Day marquee games. As hard as the NFL tries, Christmas is about NBA basketball. The holiday is a great marker in the calendar for teams because they are about 30% through the season and a month away from […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/15)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s Friday in the Association and we have eight games, most of which are the second in a two-game series between the same teams. One of the better changes to the NBA schedule was having teams play the same team twice in a row. This helps avoid travel fatigue and […]
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