Plays for Thursday 1-26.. 3-1 last night and 22-10 this month (68.5%)

It’s another small-card TNT Thursday tonight and we actually have a decent play to lay and get our all-important entertainment value on a prime-time night in the NBA.

I am having an elite month in the NBA with a winning percentage of 68.5%.  If you follow my picks regularly and are not winning money you need to either:

a) Learn how to manage your bankroll (not as easy as it sounds).  As a guideline, only 0.5 of a unit should ever be used on parlays on any given night, and that’s a high parlay rate.

b) Quit betting, because you are supposed to make money @~53% and you aren’t even in the black @68.5%

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Memphis Grizzlies +3.5

Now I cannot tell you this is the strongest play that I’ve seen lately, but it is just about the same strength of a play as the New Jersey Nets +12 was last night (New Jersey won the game by 7).  So it is a very strong play fro a small card TNT Thursday.

The Clippers don’t have anyone that can effectively cover Rudy Gay and Marc Gasol will give them fits down low.  The beauty of the Grizzlies is that they are still getting allowance for the fact that Z-Bo is out.  The bottom-line is that the Grizzlies are one of the scrappiest teams in the NBA and the Clippers really lack mettle, they are like the entitled teenagers of the NBA.

Wait until just before tip-off to take the Grizzlies because the public is all over this “sexy” Clippers team.  We should get the line up to +4 or +4.5 but if it goes down below +3 (many sharp play lines more opposite of public betting trends) just take the ML.