NBA Opening Night!

Are you ready for opening night? I have been waiting for the season to start for the past month, and im excited for it to finally be upon us. We have a great slate of opening night action including the two top dogs in the east. Here are the winners for the first day of the season:

Boston Celtics @ Cleveland Cavaliers (-4.5)

This is one of the best openers ive seen in a while as the two beasts of the east will battle it out in Cleveland. Lebron loves big games, and as far as openers are concerned it doesnt get much bigger. The favorite and the home team are 7-3 ATS in the last 10 match ups between these teams, and the Cavs have covered 8 of the last 10 and 18 of the last 24 games. The Cavaliers have added some nice talent to support Lebron James and Mo Williams by adding Big Daddy Shaq and Anthony Parker to help fill out that roster. The Cavs were an asstonishing 39-2 at home last year, and 36-15 ATS at home in their last 51 games. The Celtics are the trendy pick to win the east this year, but i dont think the addition of Sheed will change that much from last year. They have allready lost some depth with the loss of Big Baby, and these "old team" from 2 years ago is even older. Ill take the better team in their house. Cavaliers (-4.5) ****

Washington Wizards @ Dallas Mavericks (-8.5)

I think the Wizards will be one of the most improved teams in the East this year despite the early loss of Antwan Jamison. I think a healthy Arenas automatically makes the Wizards a playoff team in the east especially if Caron Butler plays up to his ability. The Mavericks added a old Marion in the off season, and are going to be missing their stud young player Josh Howard for the first couple weeks. I think the Mavericks have gotten pretty old, pretty quickly with Jason Kidd, Marion, and an agin Dirk. The upstart Wizards should be able to stay with Mavs throughout this game, and maybe steal a win on the road. These arent the same Mavericks you remember from a couple years ago, but these are the Wizards from two years ago with a healthy Arenas. Wizards (+8.5) **


4 Pt Teaser
Lakers (-6.5) + Trailblazers (-4.5) **

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD NIGHT!