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Best and worst clash as Cavs face NetsBasketball Betting Lines03/03/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Cavaliers will try to sweep the season series from the New Jersey Nets for a second straight year when the two teams collide Wednesday night at the Meadowlands. The Cavs won all three meetings a season ago and the first three matchups in 2009-10, including a 104-97 triumph in the most recent encounter on February 9 at Quicken Loans Arena. Cleveland has topped the Nets seven consecutive times and is unbeaten in its last three trips to the IZOD Center. Cleveland has won four in a row overall and recently handed the New York Knicks a 124-93 setback at home on Monday behind 22 points, seven assists and seven rebounds from NBA leading scorer LeBron James. Newcomer Antawn Jamison registered 17 points and 12 rebounds, while J.J. Hickson also scored 17 points for the Central Division-leading Cavs, who are the top team in the NBA and own the league's best record at 47-14. "It was a good win. I thought that after getting up big, we did a nice job of staying focused, coming out in the third quarter and trying to close and finish the game the right way," Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown said. "Give everybody in that locker room credit for trying to string a game together for 48 minutes, even though we were fortunate to get off to a big lead." The top team in the East learned earlier in the day that future Hall of Fame center Shaquille O'Neal is expected to be sidelined for the next eight weeks after undergoing surgery for an injured right thumb. Cleveland will have to make due without Shaq, and has won 12 of its last 16 road games. It is 21-10 as the guest this season. Cavs guard Daniel Gibson (personal) is questionable for Wednesday's game against New Jersey. The Nets failed to build off a huge win at Boston by dropping an 89-85 decision to the Washington Wizards the last time out on Sunday in the opener of a three-game homestand. Yi Jianlian had 20 points and a career-high 19 boards to pace the Nets, who posted a 104-96 victory over the Celtics to snap a four-game slide. Devin Harris had 18 points, 14 assists and seven boards, while Brook Lopez added 16 points and 10 rebounds in defeat. "At the end of the day, they hit a couple of tough shots and we missed a couple of tough ones," Nets coach Kiki Vandeweghe said after the Nets fell to an NBA-worst 6-53 this season. "We missed a couple of free throws. But all in all, I thought we played 40 minutes of pretty good basketball and maybe didn't have the legs to finish it." New Jersey will also host Orlando on the residency and is 3-26 at home. On the injury front, guard Courtney Lee is expected to miss tonight's game because of a sprained left ankle. The Nets are hoping to avoid breaking the NBA mark for futility held by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, who went 9-73 that year.
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SPORTS BETTING - Tennis is an underrated and under-utilized bettors' sport.Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?" A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."
Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook. In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small. "Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets." But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?" Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year. This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here. Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions. In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries. No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning. And that's all any bettor can ask for. To visit this sports book go to MySportsbook.com for all your football betting needs.
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