NBA Picks: Opening Day Best Bets!

you like on opening night Well, the Knicks will get their rings.

There'll be a lot of pomp and circumstance at Madison Square Garden.

But I like the Sixers plus the five and a half.

If you shop around, you can find the five and a half with LeBron and Jalen Brown and the super team coming to MSG.

But a lot of it has to do with Joel Embiid.

I don't know if you guys have seen the shape that he's in.

He's dropped 25 or 30 pounds.

I think he's going to have a monster year.

And the Knicks don't have Mitchell Robinson.

They bring back almost everyone, but he is a key guy.

and I think they're going to miss him specifically in this matchup.

And we've seen teams come out, you know, kind of be flat after all the emotion of the ring ceremony.

I think this game comes down to the wire, and we know how LeBron performs at MSG.

I'll take the points with Philly.

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right, Zach, we've got the Sixers and the Knicks.

We've also got one of those games is the Celtics and the Pistons, and you're focused on, from a spread standpoint, the third game, OKC and San Antonio.

Yeah, the smallest number.

I'm going to take the Thunder plus the two and a half against the San Antonio Spurs.

I think they want to show they are still the top dog in the Western Conference.

We know they lost four out of the five matchups in the regular season, also lost in the Western Conference finals in seven games.

But what I'm worried about with the San Antonio Spurs is how they lost the NBA finals, carrying over early in the season, especially against a top team like the OKC Thunder, who if you go back to last year, we can forget they had that incredible start, started off the year 27th.

24-1.

Their only loss was in a back-to-back spot against the Portland Trailblazers.

So short number here, but I'll side with the Thunder plus the two and a half.