DTM’S SUNDAY NBA PLAYOFF SPECIAL | OKC AT HOU

By Dan Leach

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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER AT HOUSTON ROCKETS

Sunday, April 16th, 9PM

TV: TNT

(Current America’s Bookie’s Line HOUSTON -7.5 TOTAL 228.5)

MVP vs MVP, The Beard V Russell, a DREAM first round matchup as two teams that feel they have what it takes as well as having that game changing type of player , to win it all. One of these two will win the MVP, unless we have a split vote and Co-MVP’s, but no matter who wins it in the end, both James Harden and Russell Westbrook have had historic seasons. Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson’s decades old triple double record, and James Harden looked like Micheal Jordan at times this season with his scoring prowess.

Now it comes down to which supporting cast can have the biggest impact in a series that really could go either way. The Rockets have the better overall team around Harden , but OKC has talent as well and this series is likely set for a seven game bow. Game one on these types of series are always huge and I see this one being back and forth throughout , which is why I am leaning on the Thunder getting the 7.5. Is Houston capable of blowing them out of the water? Absolutely, but with the way both teams have played to end the season and with just how good Westbrook and Harden have been, I see each of them willing their team to be in this one to the end no matter what happens.

This is going to be a heck of a way to end your NBA playoff weekend and I smelling OT in this opening salvo and one of the great opening games to a series we have seen in a long time as these two worthy MVP candidates battle each other. Look for the Rockets to us the home crowd to give them the little boost they need to win this one, but it is going to be a one or two possession type of game throughout. Shade the Thunder in this one as I feel this should be closer to a four or five point spread than the 7.5 it is as of press time.

7.4 DTM Bagels and Locks on the  (OKC +7.5)

Dan Leach was the world’s first human to live under the sea for more than 60 days, created what is now used as the International Olympic Flag, was the basis of  Denzel Washington’s character Frank Lucas in “American Gangster”, Is often consulted on matters of national “Sports Security”, was the first human to interview Dracula, started the American Revolution on a dare,  once sat in on drums with Led Zeppelin,  and is a noted expert in the field of Time Travel.”