Eric Bledsoe may not want to be in Phoenix, and since the NBA games betting odds do not favor the Suns vs. the Brooklyn Nets, maybe has a point. Then again, $10,000 says you’re wrong, even if you’re right. In either case, don’t make up some lame excuse that you were tweeting about wanting to leave a hair salon. Why not just leave instead of tweeting about it? It would have been more believable to say you were trapped in a Luis Buñuel film.
- Date: Monday, November, 6
- Time: 9:10 PM
- Venue: Talking Stick Resort Arena
- Online sportsbook odds for fans betting on NBA games:
Nets +1½ (-110) 234 (-110) +103
Suns -1½ (-110) 234 (-110) -123
Be careful what you tweet
The Suns started the season 0-3 SU and ATS prompting both the dismissal of head coach Earl Watson and Bledsoe’s airing of grievances. The timing proved to be wrong for the point guard, for the team has gone 4-3 SU and, even better, 5-2 ATS since interim head coach Jay Triano took over. The Suns, however, have no plans for Bledsoe other than to trade him and, in the meantime, allow him to use the team’s facilities to practice, as reported by the weirdly-named Shams Charania.
Sources: As potential trade prolongs, Phoenix's Eric Bledsoe planning to return to Suns' facility, work with staff members, early this week.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 5, 2017
There's no plan for Bledsoe to return to team; instead use facility again to stay in game shape and work with staff, sources said. https://t.co/wfGnMozHZz
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 5, 2017
The Suns are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games against NBA Atlantic teams and 5-1 ATS in their last six overall, while the Nets are 1-4 ATS in their last five games playing on two days rest, 1-4 ATS in their last five on the road and 0-4 ATS in their last four overall, 4-1 ATS in the last five encounters with the Suns. The underdog, as determined by NBA games betting odds, is 5-1 ATS in the last six games in this matchup.
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by these Suns of Phoenix
The Nets got off a to a hot start of the season, going 3-2 SU and, even better, 4-2 ATS in their first six games, including upsetting the Cavaliers, but those who thwart the King live to tell about it but also live to regret it. Brooklyn has gone 0-4 SU and ATS in the last four and have yet to win outright away from Barclays Center. “We’re out of rhythm right now for some reason,” head coach Kenny Atkinson said. “We lost the rhythm we had in the beginning of the season. We’ve got to get it back.” Too bad there’s no time for the Nets to go on a first-class vacation to Montego Bay where they can be wooed by a handsome young islander. Hey, it worked for Angela Bassett. Instead, the Nets went “back to training-camp mode.” Atkinson felt they “had to address that, and it was a long coach’s clinic by me, which I don’t love to do, but I felt like we needed it.” In addition to losing and not covering, another recent trend is that the total has gone over in the last three straight Nets games. Moreover, the total, as set by NBA games betting odds, has gone over in the last seven meetings between these two teams in Phoenix.