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Curry nets 42 as Warriors top playoff-bound BlazersBasketball Betting Lines04/15/2010 - Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stephen Curry scored a career-high 42 points to go with nine rebounds and eight assists, and the injury-riddled Golden State Warriors ended their season with a 122-116 win over the playoff-bound Portland Trail Blazers. Curry went 4-for-6 from three-point range and 12-for-12 from the free throw line for the Warriors, who won five of their final eight games. Monta Ellis added 34 points, and Anthony Tolliver posted 19 points and 15 boards in defeat. Devean George had 16 points and eight rebounds and fouled out. However, the Warriors were forced to put George back into the game because the team was so shorthanded. Golden State began the game with six active players, but forward Chris Hunter got hurt in the fourth, leaving the team with four players. The Warriors were forced to put in two injured players before George was allowed to re-enter, with a team technical foul being called as a penalty. This is the second time this season the Warriors have been forced into using this rule, which allows players who have fouled out to re-enter the game. Jeff Pendergraph had a career-high 23 points to lead the Blazers, who locked up the sixth seed earlier Wednesday when San Antonio lost to Dallas. In the first round, Portland will meet the Phoenix Suns, who defeated the Utah Jazz on Wednesday to earn the third seed. The series will start on Saturday. The teams played to a 33-33 tie after the first quarter, and Golden State grabbed a 60-58 halftime lead. Portland grabbed the lead in the third with a quarter-ending 10-3 burst, as a Martell Webster three had the hosts in front by a 91-85 margin entering the fourth. The Warriors used a 9-4 spurt midway through the fourth to take the lead; Ellis finished the run with a layup with 5 1/2 minutes left for a 108-104 lead. George re-entered the game with 3:29 remaining, and Patrick Mills made the technical free throw to cap a 6-0 run but missed his ensuing two free throws, leaving Portland's lead at 110-108. Curry took over from there, hitting three consecutive jumpers -- one from three -- and two free throws to give the Warriors a 117-112 lead with just over a minute left. Portland did not threaten the outcome down the stretch. Game Notes The Warriors finished their season 8-33 on the road and split the four-game series with the Blazers...Portland's Dante Cunningham had 13 points and career-high 11 rebounds...Mills had a career-best 11 points...The Blazers went 26-15 at home this season.
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SPORTS BETTING: NFL Football Sportsbook BettingNFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery.That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal. A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talking to Maryland lottery bosses. In all likelihood, it won't be long before every team is a presenting sponsor of scratch-offs or just plain old pick fives. "The change in policy was approved 32-0," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "So you can expect to see more deals soon." It's a branding opportunity too big for the owners to ignore, and one a couple of dozen baseball franchises have enjoyed for years. The fact the NFL has been slower to act than those slack-brained Seligites is indicative of its complicated relationship with all forms of gambling. Consider this: Last Thursday, as the Pats and the Redskins finalized their new lottery deals, a lawyer representing the NFL argued before Delaware's Supreme Court that the state's newly signed sports betting law should be repealed. The NFL betting is the face of opposition to sports gambling . And as much as it would like to share that responsibility with other leagues, that's not going to happen as long as more than 40% of all money legally wagered on games is bet on football. That's why the Brewers can do a multi-million dollar deal with a local casino, or the Celtics can make their own pact with the Mass lottery, and the response is, "Sweet, let's play." But when the NFL does it the stakes are higher, and everyone from NPR's Frank Deford to the Associated Press to the guys blogging at Deadspin will line up to play gotcha. So I asked Aiello, who surely knew there'd be piling on, how the league can rail against being bait for sports bettors, then allow its franchises to be just that for lotteries, the most insidious and addictive form of gambling around. He emailed me this response: "We are not moral crusaders. NFL personnel are permitted to engage in legal forms of gambling, except for betting on NFL games. We are making a distinction here between the spread of gambling on the outcome of our games and supporting state lottery scratch-off games, that have nothing to do with the outcome of our games." Here's where I should rip him. But, the thing is, he's right. Not to get Obama on you, but this is a complicated, nuanced issue. As much as lotteries are considered a tax on the poor, the NFL isn't a socially obligated government program -- it's just a business. Scratch-off's help the bottom line, sports betting doesn't. Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors … But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal. Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors. And it's okay to mutter something obscene when the league pretends gambling doesn't help drive TV ratings and fan interest and put money in owners' pockets. But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal. The Bears should put an orange "C" on every deck of cards dealt at Harrah's in Joliet; the Eagles should slap their logo on roulette wheels at the Borgata in Atlantic City; the Dolphins should hold training camp at the El San Juan in Puerto Rico. To visit this online sportsbook got to MySportsbook.com for all your Sportsbook accepts MasterCard needs. |
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