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After a Saturday without NBA (thank the god of your choosing for the footy), the action continues today with Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cleveland Cavaliers hold a commanding 2-0 lead over the Toronto Raptors, who now…

Yesterday’s action saw another team eliminated from the NBA Championship race, with the Portland Trail Blazers losing 4-1 in their series against the Golden State Warriors. With both respective number one seeds now safely through to the Conference Finals, the…

Mother’s Day turned out to be a good day to keep your money under the mattress, as the Toronto Raptors and Portland Trail Blazers scored upsets in their respective series. Today’s “Play of the Day” focuses on Game 4 in…

Yesterday was a unique, if not entirely stressful day to be an NBA punter, with both games going to overtime but both favourites ultimately covering the spread. Thanks to the Cavaliers sweeping the Hawks, there’s only one game on the…

Yesterday ended up being one of the season’s most frustrating and unlucky losses, as the Toronto Raptors missed a dozen free-throws and fell just one point short of the spread. Kyle Lowry’s last miss from the stripe was also the…

It’s still only early in the conference semi final stage of the playoffs but we’ve already seen it all, from record-setting blowouts to controversial final plays, mixed in with some overtime and a stunning comeback. Today we’re in for Game…

If the last three games of these NBA playoffs have proven anything, it’s that bookmakers are as human as the rest of us. After two wins to the Toronto Raptors and one to the Oklahoma City Thunder, all as pronounced…

As we get toward the mid-point of the opening round of playoff matches, the results have mainly (with one obvious exception in Oklahoma City) gone as expected. Today, The Big Dog is casting his eye over a series that is…

Yesterday was a real case of “what might have been” for The Big Dog, with a 1.5-point win, a 0.5-point loss and a 3.5-point loss on a day where every play looked like a winner and a loser, at some…

The Big Dog’s opening play of the 2016 playoffs was as emphatic as it gets, as the Miami Heat dismantled the Charlotte Hornets 123-91. Today’s “Play of the Day” steers away from results again, as the spotlight shifts to the…