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**Udog** · 07-09-2017, 09:56 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

— 76ers’ rookie Markelle Fultz suffered a high ankle sprain Saturday night and is probably done for the summer.

— Celtics 86, Lakers 81— Laker Nation can rest easy; Lonzo Ball had a triple double.

— Raptors are trading DeMarre Carroll to Brooklyn for Justin Hamilton, a salary dump by Toronto.

— Dodgers 5, Royals 4 (10)— Los Angeles is 27-8 since June 1.

— Padres 2, Phillies 1— Philly is 28-58; 23 of their 58 losses are by one run.

— Pirates 4, Cubs 2— Chicago is 4.5 games out of first place, 6.5 games out of Wild Card.

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Armadillo: Sunday's List of 13: Random stuff for a summer day……

13) Gregg Popovich is 1,316-612 as an NBA head coach with five championships, but his first year as a head coach at any level was in 1979-80 at Pomona-Pitzer, a D-III school in California.

That team went 2-22. Long way from there to today.

12) Clippers-Lakers summer league game Friday night in UNLV’s arena had a huge crowd- looked liked the whole lower bowl was full, which would make it a crowd of around 8,000 people.

Lakers-Celtics game Saturday night was a complete sellout at Thomas & Mack Center. Adam Silver has to like that, but I bet NBA people are surprised at how popular summer league has become.

$30 a pop for the whole day is a good deal. Can watch four games in an air conditioned arena.

11) It isn’t good when your favorite college basketball team has two assistant coaches resign in July; thats whats happening at Western Kentucky. One of the assistant coaches is the godfather of their best recruit, Mitchell Robinson.

10) Twins manager Paul Molitor played his last big league game in 1998; Bartolo Colon pitched for the other team that day. Here, in 2017, Molitor will be managing Colon.

9) Biggest division lead at the All-Star break since 1910; 2001 Seattle Mariners led Oakland by 19 games. 1986 Mets led Montreal by 13.5 games.

This year’s Astros have a 16-game lead in the AL West.

8) Most career home runs without a grand slam:
190— Andrew McCutchen, Glenn Davis
176— Ron Kittle

7) Andy from New York points out that the Cubs are the only MLB team who have zero stolen bases from the leadoff position in the batting order.

6) Jim “Bones” Mackay, who caddied for Phil Mickelson for 25 years, is going to be an on-course golf commentator for NBC/Golf Channel. His first assignment is the British Open.

5) NBA doings:
— Indiana Pacers gave Brian Bogdanovic $21M for two years.
— Cavaliers gave Jeff Green $2.3M for one season.
— Celtics traded Avery Bradley to Detroit for Marcus Morris.
— Warriors gave Zaza Pachulia $3.5M for one year.
— Minnesota gives Jamal Crawford $8.9M for two years.

4) Tim Hardaway Jr is going to sign a $71M contract with the Knicks; Atlanta declined to match the offer sheet. Tim Hardaway Sr, made $46M in his whole career, and he was a much better player than his son. Go figure.

3) James Harden got a 4-year contract extension from the Rockets, supposedly worth $228M, which is $57M a year, and that is eye-popping.

2) Canadian team beat the Americans 99-87 in semi-finals of the U19 championship in Egypt. Canada will face Italy in the finals.

1) NBA Summer League story: I was at UNLV a few years ago, watching the summer league— you can bet on these games, but you have to be careful.

I’m sitting there and this really big guy, likely a bodybuilder, sits in front of me, drink in hand. He is explaining fairly loudly to the guy next to him how he is betting on the Timberwolves, who had won their game the day before by 20+ points. The bodybuilder was confident in a Minnesota win.

One small problem.

Some teams don’t play the same set of guys every game. Timberwolves had 18 guys on their roster; nine had played the day before in the big win, the other nine were playing this game.

Minnesota’s second group wasn’t very good- they got trounced. The big guy lost his money, wasn’t happy about it.

**Udog** · 07-09-2017, 10:05 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, July 9

New York @ Phoenix

Game 623-624
July 9, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
New York
107.988
Phoenix
115.745
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Phoenix
by 8
155
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Phoenix
by 5
159
Dunkel Pick:
Phoenix
(-5); Under

Dallas @ Atlanta

Game 621-622
July 9, 2017 @ 3:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Dallas
110.616
Atlanta
106.522
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Dallas
by 4
174
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Dallas
Pick
165
Dunkel Pick:
Dallas
Over

WNBA
Long Sheet

Sunday, July 9

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DALLAS (9 - 9) at ATLANTA (7 - 8) - 7/9/2017, 3:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
ATLANTA is 4-2 against the spread versus DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
ATLANTA is 4-2 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
6 of 6 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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NEW YORK (8 - 7) at PHOENIX (9 - 6) - 7/9/2017, 6:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
NEW YORK is 6-2 against the spread versus PHOENIX over the last 3 seasons
NEW YORK is 6-2 straight up against PHOENIX over the last 3 seasons
5 of 8 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Sunday, July 9

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Trend Report
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3:00 PM
DALLAS vs. ATLANTA
Dallas is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta's last 7 games at home
Atlanta is 13-5 SU in its last 18 games at home

6:00 PM
NEW YORK vs. PHOENIX
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New York's last 6 games when playing Phoenix
New York is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Phoenix
Phoenix is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing New York
Phoenix is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games

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