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[QUOTE="Fireball Jr., post: 2379279, member: 404"]
Well, hard to argue with that.

Woke up early today, needed a fix of caffeine bad, but good mood arrived even before the coffee was ready. Hit me the Cavs are in the Garden tonight to play the Knicks -- and even though I'm a Cavs fan (until LeBron retires or heads elsewhere), I love seeing a competent, capable, exciting young team in NYC again (although I think Philly's America's greatest hoops city).

Not sure what Ty Lue has to throw at Porzingas -- one of the Cavs' best defenders, all-league rebounder Tristan Thomas, is out -- but should be fun to watch.  And I'm sure the TV announcers and NYC media and perhaps the Knicks themselves probably will make hay of LeBron saying two nights ago that the Knicks mighta drafted the wrong young point guard.

I'm a little familiar (cough, cough) with sports gambling and I figured the the Knicks would be a 2-, 2 1/2-point favorite, what with the game being in Manhattan, the big buzz about the Knicks and their good start, the Cavs' meh first month and no Kyrie, no Isaiah yet, to go to in emergencies -- Rose is out (not the worst thing for the Cavs), there's no point guard after Calderon to go to and Lue ain't going to him.

The oddsmakers, who continue to amaze me to this day, 45 years after I made my first call to a bookie, see it differently: Cleveland's opened as a 4- to 5-point favorite. Very interesting.

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