The Los Angeles Lakers are a great team and arguably the best team in the NBA right now, but will they cover a 13 point spread against the Golden State Warriors? No way.
The Lakers will be playing the Warriors in LA at the Staples Center, but Golden State is one of the few teams that the Lakers always have trouble playing against. Along with the Kings and Blazers the Warriors always seem to take the Lakers to the limit.
There is no team I would bet on to cover a 13 point spread in the NBA, in college basketball yeah sure, but in the NBA not a chance.
The Lakers are great, but if they win tonight it will only be by about ten points max.
There are few teams in the league this season that can beat LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers this season, especially in their house where the Los Angeles Lakers are the only team to beat them at the Q.
The Portland Trailblazers are young, up and coming team in the West which will be a great team in the near future, but beating LeBron and company at home where they have only lost one game this season? I don't think so.
Right now the spread is -10.5 in favor of the Cavs and that is being generous because I think this will be an absolute blowout. It isn't easy to bet on any team to win by ten or more points, but this game and spread is in the bag.
Just like we all thought number one seeds North Carolina and UConn crush the 16 seeds Cinderellas hopes.
The Huskies were thrown kind of a curveball before they took the floor though as they found out that Jim Calhoun would not be on the sideline. Calhoun had health problems earlier in the season, enough to keep him out of a game, but this is the NCAA tournament.
UConn didn't miss a beat though as they just absolutely destroyed Chattanooga 103-47. Calhoun's health and availability for the rest of the tournament hasn't been determined as of yet. The Huskies will take on the Texas A&M in the next round.
North Carolina on the other hand didn't beat Radford by 56 points like UConn did to Chattanooga, but they weren't far off with a 101-58 victory to advance to the second round against LSU.
The NCAA tournament is full of them, big and small, but upsets are inevitable and the biggest reason for watching the Big Dance.
The biggest upset that almost happen in the first round of the NCAA tourney was 15 seed Cal State Northridge over 2 seed Memphis. If you watched the game then you konw which team played better, CSUN was all over Memphis with their never say die attitude and at one point it looked like a Cinderella team had been born.
Although CSUN seemed to be on its way to be the first big upset in this season's Big Dance, the Tigers showed why they are a 2 seed and rallied back to beat the Matadors by 11 points.
So the big upset that we are all waiting for hasn't happen yet, but it won't be long before one of the big boys falls.
