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The weekend is here, and for the Bookie Busters it means money. Soccer and basketball for the next few days gives us plenty of opportunities to make some more money. We are still at over 30 Units for the season. I want 50 by Sunday so let's grind.
Previous Plays
UPDATE
Nets TT over 111.5 3U +3
Tenn live over first half +2
Dayton-5.5 Live
Orlando Magic at Brooklyn Nets
3rd Q over 53.5 1U +1
Nets 3rd Q TT O 28 1U +1
Nets TT 2nd half over 55 1U+1
UPDATE 1:10 CST
AJAX VS SC HEERENVEEN
Over 4 5U PUSH
First half over 1.5 3U +3
Thunder TT over 32 -1.1
Warriors _5 first half +2
-9 -2.2
Warriors TT Over 132.5 2U -2.2
NCAA
Memphis +5 2U -2.2
Even
add the late Australia from overnight the other day. We dont hide things
Sydney FC at Wellington Phoenix -
Over 2.5 3U -3
Over 3 3U -3
Adelaide United vs Perth Over 2.5 2U -2.4
-8.4 Ill even count both -3 on the first match. I dont care about 3U just remember that later. Should be more like -6 ish.
Even on previous article, throw in the Aussie
Last article read +31.4U -8.4 +23U 2019
New Plays
Start small today
Netherlands
Breda/Den Haag over 3 1U
UPDATE106CST
Arsenal / Man U
Over 3 3U
Both teams score and over 2.5 3U
UPDATE
Wake and cash
MELBOURNE VICTORY VS SYDNEY FC
over 2.5 2U
UPDATE 1034 CST
BREMEN VS EINTRACHT FRANKFURT Over 3. 3U
BTTS and over 2.5 1U
UPDATE 133 CST
Real Madrid ML risk 5U
Seton Hall/Nova
Over 145 3U
Update 254 CST
CLUB UCR VS SANTOS DE GUÁPILES
Club UCR TT over 1.5 1U
UPDATE 352 CST
Los Angeles Clippers - Live 3rd Quarter TT Over 27.5 2U
UPDATE 715 CST
Toronto Raptors at Dallas Mavericks 2nd half Over 108 5U
UPDATE
Man united first half 1U
Man United -1.5 2U
Man United TT over 2.5 1U
Rashford scores goal 1U
UPDATE
BIG PLAYS
Arsenal Over 3
Arsenal -1.5
Parlay 1U
City -1.5
Man U -1.5
Fullham over 2
Arsenal -1.5
UPDATE 630 CST
Tennessee/South Carolina Over 83 2U
UPDATE 815 CST Pick your spots
Rockets/Pelicans o113 3U
Rockets TT 2nd half Over o59½ 5U MAX BOMB
Rockets - 3rd Quarter TT 29.5 3U
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They’ll be watching in Canada, not just because of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, though the NBA’s scoring champion and MVP favorite who plays for Oklahoma City surely helps lure in fans who are north of the border.
They’ll be watching from Serbia and Greece, the homelands of Denver star Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee star Giannis Antetokounmpo. Alperen Sengun will have them watching Houston games in the middle of the night in Turkey, too. Slovenian fans will be watching Luka Doncic and the Lakers play their playoff opener at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Saturday in Los Angeles. Fans in Cameroon will be tuned in to see Pascal Siakam and the Indiana Pacers. Defending champion Boston features, among others, Kristaps Porzingis of Latvia and Al Horford of the Dominican Republic.
Once again, the NBA playoffs are setting up to be a showcase for international stars.
In a season where the five statistical champions were from five different countries, an NBA first — Gilgeous-Alexander is Canadian, rebounding champion Domantas Sabonis of Sacramento is from Lithuania, blocked shots champion Victor Wembanyama of San Antonio is from France, steals champion Dyson Daniels of Atlanta is from Australia, and assists champion Trae Young of the Hawks is from the U.S. — the postseason will have plenty of international feel as well. Gilgeous-Alexander is in, while Sabonis and Daniels (along with Young, obviously) could join him if their teams get through the play-in tournament.
“We have a tremendous number of international players in this league,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said earlier this season. “It’s roughly 30% of our players representing, at least on opening day, 43 different countries, so there’s much more of a global sense around our teams.”
By the end of the season, it wound up being 44 different countries — at least in terms of countries where players who scored in the NBA this season were born. For the first time in NBA history, players from one country other than the U.S. combined to score more than 15,000 points; Canadian players scored 15,588 this season, led by Gilgeous-Alexander, the first scoring champion from that country.
Gilgeous-Alexander is favored to be MVP this season. It'll be either him or Jokic, which means it'll be a seventh consecutive year with an international MVP for the NBA. Antetokounmpo won twice, then Jokic won three of the next four, with Cameroon-born Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers winning two seasons ago.
“Shai is in the category of you do not stop him,” Toronto coach Darko Rajakovic said after a game between the Raptors and Thunder this season.
In other words, he's like a lot of other international guys now. Nobody truly stops Jokic, Antetokounmpo and Doncic either.
And this season brought another international first: Doncic finished atop the NBA's most popular jersey list, meaning NBAStore.com sold more of his jerseys than they did anyone else's. Sure, that was bolstered by Doncic changing jerseys midseason when he was traded by Dallas to the Los Angeles Lakers, but it still is significant.
The Slovenian star is the first international player to finish atop the most popular jerseys list — and the first player other than Stephen Curry or LeBron James to hold that spot in more than a decade, since soon-to-be-enshrined Basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony did it when he was with New York in 2012-13.
“We’re so small, we have 2 million people. But really, our sport is amazing,” fellow Slovene Ajsa Sivka said when she was drafted by the WNBA's Chicago Sky on Monday night and asked about Doncic and other top Slovenian athletes. “No matter what sport, we have at least someone that’s great in it. I’m just really proud to be Slovenian.”
All this comes at a time where the NBA is more serious than perhaps ever before about growing its international footprint. Last month, FIBA — the sport's international governing body — and the NBA announced a plan to partner on a new European basketball league that has been taking shape for many years. The initial target calls for a 16-team league and it potentially could involve many of the biggest franchise names in Europe, such as Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City.
It was a season where four players topped 2,000 points in the NBA and three of them were international with Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic and Antetokounmpo. Globally, time spent watching NBA League Pass was up 6% over last season. More people watched NBA games in France this season than ever before, even with Wembanyama missing the final two months. NBA-related social media views in Canada this season set records, and league metrics show more fans than ever were watching in the Asia-Pacific region — already a basketball hotbed — as well.
FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis said the numbers — which are clearly being fueled by the continued international growth — suggest the game is very strong right now.
“Looking around the world, and of course here in North America," Zagklis said, "the NBA is most popular and more commercially successful than ever.”