NBA Postseason Best Bets (5/14)
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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. 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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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/14)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It should be a TNT Thursday night, but the NBA is afraid of the Thursday night NFL game. I know people are excited to see the Las Vegas Raiders’ third-string quarterback and the Los Angeles Charges’ second-stringer who is named after a hockey stick, but I and others would happily […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/12)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Regular season NBA basketball in December is back! To be clear, that is not a good thing. The NBA In-Season Tournament gave us competitive games, teams without scheduling concerns and star players not resting. Tuesday, things will be much different, with five games, all involving at least one team playing on […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/11)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The NBA In-Season Tournament is over, and regular season basketball is back with a vengeance. We have 13 games Monday, most of them division matchups that give us an opportunity to evaluate games based on how teams played each other earlier in the season. Having a previous game allows […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/8)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! One of the best parts of the NBA In-Season Tournament has been the rest it has afforded the rest of the league. The IST knockout rounds have created a two- (or more) day break for the other teams. We’ve seen hardly any resting of stars after these breaks, and the […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/7)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops and welcome to Las Vegas for the NBA In-Season Tournament semifinals! This will be the first time playing in Sin City for most players on either team. Until now, there have only been All-Star games or preseason games played in Las Vegas. The league has put together a big night of […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/5)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Night two of the NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinals starts Tuesday, and night one was fantastic. The Boston Celtics did what they often do in elimination games and lost the game in the second half. Their offense comes to a screeching halt at the end of close games because they don’t […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/4)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s time for the first half of the NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinals! We’re down to eight elite teams playing for a chance to win the first ever NBA IST trophy. This round features home games for the higher seeded teams, and then the final four teams go to Las Vegas […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (12/1)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We get to start the weekend with a small, but high-quality slate of NBA games Friday. Wednesday and Thursday featured a lot of games, and Saturday will have 12 before most of the league gets a few days off for the NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinals. Every team gets Sunday off, […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (11/30)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! This is the rare Thursday night when we’re lucky enough to have a huge slate of NBA action. Normally, Thursdays are for a small slate of marquee matchups to be showcased on TNT. To help facilitate rest for the In-Season Tournament, and because of the NBA’s neverending fear of Thursday […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (11/28)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! Tuesday is the final slate of NBA In-Season Tournament group play games, which means there is a lot on the line. Enthusiasm was low before the season for most, but the IST has been a success in its first year. The players and coaches have taken the games more seriously […]
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NBA Best Bets of the Day (11/27)
Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s the eve of the last night of NBA In-Season Tournament group, so most teams are not playing. This allows them to get at least one night’s rest before their final chance to win their group or grow their point differential in the hopes of making the wild card. […]
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