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Thursday's NBA Betting Picks – Who's Kidding Who in Brooklyn?

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: December 12, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! LA Clippers at Brooklyn Don’t look now, but could Brooklyn be getting its game together? The Nets have won two straight. They have Deron Williams and Brook Lopez back in the lineup, and Paul Pierce on his way. The two wins were against...

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Tuesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: December 10, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Miami at Indiana The Pacers didn’t beat the Heat when they met in the Eastern Conference Finals last season, but they sure scared them. Indiana put more pressure on the two-time Champions than anybody else could manage last year and this year Indiana...

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Don’t Bet Rudy Gay Trade Helps Raptors Land Andrew Wiggins

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

When word that the Toronto Raptors were trading Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings for what amounts to be a pile of expiring contracts, many fans had visions of Andrew Wiggins dancing in their heads. It’s a fair initial assessment, really. When a team trades arguably its most talented player and doesn’t get equal talent...

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Thursday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: December 5, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! New York at Brooklyn The battle of New York hasn’t turned out to be quite the epic that the schedulers would have wished back in the summer, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t money to be won on the game. The Knicks...

Defying the Odds

Sports Interaction Podcast: Defying the Odds, Episode 1

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 28, 2013

At long last, Defying the Odds, Sports Interaction’s official sports betting podcast is born. While our friends south of the border are celebrating Thanksgiving, we figured it would be a perfect time to give thanks to our loyal followers by rolling out Episode 1 today. With the fearless Frank Doyle leading the way, he and...

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Wednesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 27, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! San Antonio at Oklahoma City If anybody doubted that both teams had marked big red circles on their calendars for today, the Spurs’ and Thunder’s bench strategy in their previous games pretty much rules it out. The Spurs were very careful to limit...

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Tuesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 26, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Brooklyn at Toronto Jason Kidd’s first job as a head coach isn’t going very well. Brooklyn is 3-10 at the bottom of the Atlantic Division, the weakest division in the NBA, and is on a five game losing streak. Not only that, the...

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Monday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 25, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Minnesota at Indiana The congregation at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse will be treated to a clash of styles tonight when Minnesota visits to take on the home-town Indiana Pacers. Minnesota is one of the top offensive teams in the League, with the T-wolves’...

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Friday Night's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 22, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! San Antonio at Memphis ESPN will have a treat for the basketball connoisseur when they broadcast the Spurs at the Grizzlies tonight. San Antonio swept the Grizzlies in the Western Finals last year when Memphis surprised people by even getting that fair in...

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Thursday Night's NBA Betting Picks!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 21, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! LA Clippers at Oklahoma City It’s never too early to start dominating a rival and getting into their heads. That thought will be uppermost in the minds of the Clippers and Thunder tonight as they face each other for the second time in...

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Wednesday Night's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 20, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Indiana at New York The Indiana Pacers suffered defeat for the first time this season when they lost to the Bulls at the United Center on Saturday, 110-94. Paul George was shut down and Derrick Rose unpicked the Pacers’ previously rock-solid defense to...

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Tuesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 19, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Atlanta at Miami The best chance Atlanta has tonight at Miami is if the Hawks were to sprout actual wings and fly to the baskets. It’s hard to see them getting any change out of Miami otherwise. Miami has dominated Atlanta in recent...

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Monday's NBA Betting Picks – Sixers to Cover at Big D!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 18, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! The first thing to do when handicapping the Sixers’ visit to Dallas tonight is to forget their last game. Philly got torn asunder in New Orleans on Saturday night, suffering a 37-point thumping as the Pelicans covered four times over. Sixers’ head coach...

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Friday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 15, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Dallas at Miami is a game that should be on TV tonight. It’s a great, great matchup. Miami hasn’t lost to Dallas since the 2011 Finals, which is four straight wins, and the theory is that LeBron raises his game on a point...

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Thursday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 14, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! The New York Knicks have troubles. Firstly, they’re the new New York Knicks and, even though they haven’t won a Championship in forty years, the rabid New York fans expect rings every year. Those expectations aren’t always realistic and the city that never...

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Wednesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 13, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Having lost at Dallas 105-95 last night, Washington travels 300 miles south today to take on San Antonio. The wizards will need a whole lot of magic to cover the number in this one. San Antonio is on a five-game winning streak currently,...

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Tuesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 12, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! The LA Lakers are a home court underdog tonight against the Pelicans, and that is a humiliation to which the purple and gold is unaccustomed. Of course, there are good solid reasons for the line, not least of them being that right now,...

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Monday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 11, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Indiana is the team everybody is talking about since the start of the season. The Pacers won a lot of fans with the way they fronted up to Miami in the Eastern Conference Finals, and they’ve started this season like men with a...

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Could Steve Nash really end up with the Toronto Raptors?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 4, 2013

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard rumors of Steve Nash ending up with the Toronto Raptors and it probably won’t be the last. But could it actually happen? Well, maybe. A hoopsworld.com report floated the idea again Sunday and cited “multiple league sources” who believe Nash could be on his way to the Raps....

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Why the Toronto Raptors' opener vs. Celtics is so important

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 30, 2013

This isn’t just any NBA regular season opener tonight when the Toronto Raptors host the Boston Celtics. This is a game that’s going to set the tone for a Toronto team that may have very little time to figure out if it will be a contender in the Eastern Conference this season. This team has...