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The Phoenix Suns find themselves back in the NBA Finals for The first time since the 1992-93 season. This time around, they won’t have to deal with this dude named Michael Jordan; you might’ve heard of him. The last time the Milwaukee Bucks participated in the final series of the playoffs, I wasn’t even born yet! Regardless of it taking so long for both franchises to get back to the championship round, they’re here now and it looks like online sportsbooks will have a competitive matchup in play. Phoenix will have the leg up heading into the series with it last taking to the hardwood back on June 30. As for Milwaukee, it was forced to win Game 6 on the road in Atlanta on Saturday night and could be forced to tip the series off without the services of Giannis Antetokounmpo who is still listed as questionable with a hyperextended leg. After going all-out to beat Atlanta in the Eastern Conference finals, it’s going to be tough for the Bucks to match the Suns intensity which has me leaning towards laying the chalk on the NBA odds in the series opener. ... 

It was quite clear Thursday night that the Milwaukee Bucks complimentary players are much better than what the Atlanta Hawks brought with them to the table. So did you enjoy taking in the battle between Bojan Bogdanovic and Brook Lopez in Game 5? With both Trae Young and Giannis Antetokounmpo held out that in essence is what the game turned into with the former leading the Hawks in scoring with 28 points and the latter posting a historical NBA playoffs effort with 33 points on a shade under 78 p... 

It was announced an hour or so before the Game 4 tip-off of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks that Trae Young would be unavailable in any capacity to partake in the festivities. Evidently the injury incurred at the tail end of the third quarter the prior game was enough to force the team to make the decision. Because of it, an influx of Bucks money infiltrated the market forcing online sportsbooks to fatten the pointspread up to -9 where it ultimately cl... 

The way the Los Angeles Clippers went about their business minutes into Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, you’d think they were the ones looking to close the door on the Phoenix Suns. That however wasn’t the case. Monty Williams’s squad had just taken a 3-1 series lead in Tinseltown and looked to punch a ticket to the NBA Finals as decided 7-point favorites per the closing NBA playoff odds at online sportsbooks. Never once were Devin Booker and the gang in a position to cover the number; or win the game outright for that matter. ‘Playoff P’ put the team on his back and became the first Clipper in franchise history to post a 40/10/5 game to help lead his teammates to the dominant 14-point victory. In doing so, LA is now 3-0 SU and ATS in elimination games this postseason. Ty Lue will put his 10-2 coaching record in elimination games on the line when the Clippers and Suns lock horns in Game 6 back in Tinseltown Hump Day night. ... 

Just like they did in the prior two series against the Mavericks and Jazz falling into 0-2 holes, the Los Angeles Clippers scored a huge Game 3 win to get themselves right back into the Eastern Conference Finals against the Phoenix Suns. It took another Herculean effort from Paul George and an injury to Cameron Payne to get the job done, but Ty Lue’s squad went above and beyond to avoid being put on the brink. Even so, online sportsbooks still aren’t buying into another Clippers comeback with th... 

The key ingredients to the Atlanta Hawks success throughout the playoffs has been Trae Young, Clint Capela and John Collins; the former with his ability to break defenses down and go HAM while Capela cleans the glass and Collins logs double-doubles with regularity. The trio was at it again in the opener of the Eastern Conference finals which ultimately led Nate McMillan’s squad to a third straight 1-0 series lead after winning outright as 8-point underdogs per the closing NBA odds at online spor... 

Through two games of the Western Conference Finals, the Los Angeles Clippers have done everything right except for close out the games. If Paul George sank his throws in the closing seconds, the Phoenix Suns miraculous out of bounds play to DeAndre Ayton never would’ve occurred. Be that as it may, George failed to convert from the charity stripe and Ayton’s flush with less than a second remaining allowed for the Suns to take a commanding 2-0 series lead with them to Tinseltown where the teams wi... 

Through two rounds of NBA playoffs betting, the fifth seeded Atlanta Hawks have relished the opportunity of playing the role of overlooked underdogs at online sportsbooks. Because of it, they’ve now disposed of the No. 4 New York Knicks and most recently the No. 1 Philadelphia 76ers as heavy underdogs. The task at hand gets even tougher in the Eastern Conference Finals with Trae Young and his mates set to square off against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the No. 3 Milwaukee Bucks with the latter once... 

So did you ever think you’d get the chance to bet the Brooklyn Nets as -120 favorites to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks at the outset of this second round series? Well, that’s exactly the case with it all knotted up at three apiece after Giannis Antetokounmpo and company cruised to the win and cover back home in Game 6. The series now heads back to Brooklyn where the Nets haven’t lost a game throughout the playoffs 6-0 ATS. On top of that, it covered all three matchups against the Bucks at online sp... 

Ever hear that saying about teams stepping up and rising to the occasion when their best player goes down to injury? If you never heard it, you certainly witnessed it on Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Clippers took the wood to the Utah Jazz to take a shocking 3-2 series lead hours after it was announced Kawhi Leonard would miss the game and possibly the remainder of the playoffs due to an ACL injury in his right knee. And what a letdown it was for the Jazz who had the series lead all but g... 

So is everyone out there having fun chasing overs in this series? I kid, I kid; but seriously, enough is enough already! The postseason matchup between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets was billed as potentially being one of the highest scoring series in the history of NBA playoffs betting heading into Game 1. The under has cashed in four times and pushed once dependent upon where NBA bettors got into the market at online sportsbooks for Game 5. Even with Kyrie Irving out of the mix, Brookly... 

NBA bettors and fans of the sport deserved at least one of these second round NBA Playoff matchups to be competitive; and not because of injury. After Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks staged a furious second half comeback to win Game 4, that’s exactly what they’ve got with the series knotted up at two games apiece. It’s now a best-of-three series and the Philadelphia 76ers are the team that owns home court advantage. So far, that hasn’t mattered much in this series with both teams snagging one r... 

Home teams have gone a moneymaking 6-1 SU and ATS at online sportsbooks through seven played second round games. The Utah Jazz represents one of the teams after going 1-0 SU and ATS in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series against the Los Angeles Clippers. Looking to follow in the footsteps of both the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns, the top seed in the West will be looking to get out to a 2-0 series lead on its home floor with Donovan Mitchell and company looking to build off the impressive come... 

The Philadelphia 76ers just evened their series up with the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night by pulling away in the fourth quarter to log the 118-102 win and cover as 6.5-point favorites. Though Trae Young and company managed to earn the split in the City of Brotherly Love, they find themselves lined as short home underdogs at online sportsbooks for Game 3. That comes off as a bit surprising considering Atlanta held serve the only time it hosted the Sixers in the regular season, and it’ll enter Ga... 

The Milwaukee Bucks were dominant in the first round against a Miami Heat team they went all-out to defeat after getting bounced from the playoffs by Jimmy Butler and company the previous season. Unfortunately, Mike Budenholzer’s troops have been unable to carry that same type of intensity over into the next round versus a Brooklyn Nets outfit that’s more or less toyed with them through the first two games. The Nets triumphed by an average of 23.5 points per game to log a pair of comfortable poi... 

The three regular season meetings between the Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns were extremely competitive with each decided by an average of just 5.0 points per game. While that remained the case through a half of play in the series opener, Phoenix would take control early in the third quarter to put the Nuggs away and cruise to the 1-0 series lead. Denver bounced back from losses to the Trail Blazers with a win and cover in both instances the previous round, and has only dropped back-to-back gam... 

How schizophrenic has this first round series between the Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks been? Seriously, it makes no logical sense! The Mavs return home for Game 6 owners of a 3-2 series lead. However, all three of the team’s triumphs have come on the Clippers’ court. On the flipside, both of LA’s wins have come on the Mavericks’ hardwood. Dallas won the first two games in the Staples Center. Then Los Angeles won the next two in Big D. Then on Wednesday night, Dallas stuck to the tre... 

The second round series between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets figures to be a barnburner right from the opening tip of Game 1 on Saturday night with these teams combining for an average of 240.3 points per game in their three regular season standoffs. To little surprise, online sportsbooks hit the series opener with a 240-point O/U and installed the homebased Nets 4-point favorites to get out to the 1-0 series lead. Milwaukee took two of the three regular season tussles both SU and ATS, ... 

The Los Angeles Lakers now find themselves on the verge of being bounced from the playoffs after the Phoenix Suns took the wood to them in Game 5 to reclaim the series lead and set this win or go home bout up against the defending champs. LA’s effort was nothing if not embarrassing. Anthony Davis didn’t score a single point sitting on the sidelines, but still ended up scoring just as many points as Kenneth Caldwell-Pope and Dennis Schroder. Phoenix took full advantage of the big man’s absence to... 

The first round matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers is now a best of three after both teams went into the opposing arena and came out victorious through the first four games. Tyronn Lue’s squad was nothing if not dominant after falling into a 0-2 hole. Instead of feeling sorry for themselves and packing it in, Kawhi Leonard and company did nothing but flex their muscles en route to becoming the first team in NBA history to lose the first two games of a playoff series at... 

If you were waiting to hit the Los Angeles Lakers at a more attractive offering on the series lines against the Phoenix Suns, that ship has sailed. Many of the talking heads on syndicated sports shows and the interwebs were of the belief the defending champs would fall into a 0-2 hole after the way they looked in the play-in game against Golden State and Game 1 of this series. But an entirely different team hit the hardwood for Game 2 and the end result saw LeBron James and his mates tie the ser... 

I hate being the bearer of bad news, but the Los Angeles Clippers are a cursed franchise. Seriously, something needs to be done to get the bad juju surrounding the club since its inception back in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves. Maybe it should just move back to San Diego where it moved to in 1978 before bolting for Tinseltown in 1984. With just two division titles to its credit and no conference titles or championships, it’s likely going to remain that way after dropping the first two games of its ... 

The Milwaukee Bucks find themselves two wins away from avenging the playoff defeat to the Miami Heat from a year ago after holding serve back home in the Fiserv Forum the first two games of the series. The opener was a hotly contested battle that was decided in overtime. The second go-round was an all-out romp that saw the Bucks explode out of the gates and never look back en route to logging the decisive 132-98 win and cover as 5-point favorites per the closing NBA odds. Even so, online sportsb... 

Linemakers expected a hotly contested series between the Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks heading into Game 1. And true to form, it took a running floater from Trae Young at the near-gun to allow for Atlanta to snag the 1-0 series lead in a game that saw both teams hold multiple possession leads. Every time a team went on a run, the other answered. Unfortunately for Julius Randle and company, they simply ran out of time. Facing a 1-0 deficit and home court advantage now in control of the Hawks,... 

For the first time since the 2012-13 NBA betting season, the New York Knicks are back in the Playoffs after putting forth one of the more memorable campaigns the Big Apple has witnessed in quite some time. Same goes for the Atlanta Hawks who as a franchise last got a taste of postseason basketball back in 2016. Though both squads have loads of playoff inexperience littered up and down their respective rosters, there’s still plenty of star power lacing ‘em up in what online sportsbooks expect to be a competitive series. Though the Knicks swept the season rivalry and own home court advantage throughout, the Hawks enter Game 1 the -123 favorite to take the series down. That’s quite surprising considering Julius Randle and company won all three regular season meetings and covered the closing NBA odds each time. However, they did so as underdogs each time but Game 1 currently has them listed as the short chalk. Something about that stinks to high hell, and it’s one of the main reasons why I’ll be riding Trae Young and his mates in the series opener. ...