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New York Post
07-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Knicks vs. Celtics Game 2 prediction: NBA playoffs pick, odds, best bets
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. If anyone thinks the Boston Celtics are going to change their approach because they have learned a lesson, you are sorely mistaken. Joe Mazzulla will not channel the Bart Simpson meme and repeatedly write on the chalkboard that his team should not shoot an obscene amount of 3-pointers. Give the Knicks enormous credit for doing what they needed to do in Game 1, rallying from a 20-point deficit in the third quarter to stun the defending champs. While being blown out, they showed resolve and resilience to avoid punting on the first game of a long series. And perhaps more impressively, New York executed down the stretch and into overtime. That is what most stood out to me. The Knicks made the necessary plays in clutch moments, even when the game was tight on the road. But I am not ready to think they will win the series. In fact, I believe Boston as a -300 series favorite has extreme value. I do not think the Knicks will win more than one more game, so my favorite approach is Boston -1.5 games. That means the Celtics must win the series in five or six games for the wager to cash. New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) drives the ball against Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday (4) in the first quarter during game one of the second round for the 2025 NBA Playoffs at TD Garden. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect We all know that Boston shot 60 3-pointers in Game 1. Plus, 19 of their 20 shot attempts in the third quarter came from behind the arc. Additionally, 37 of their 49 attempts after halftime were from downtown. Jayson Tatum finished 4-of-15, Derrick White 5-of-16. Those are all laughable and somewhat appalling statistics. However, if the Celtics merely made a few more, they win the game by double digits. I would argue that only making 15-of-60 for the game is more remarkable than the shot selection itself. Like it or not, that is why the NBA has experienced such an extreme shift toward the 3-pointer. Betting on the NBA? Make no mistake. This was a collapse and outlier performance. I am backing Boston to bounce back in Game 2 in emphatic fashion. The health of Kristaps Porzingis is an unknown variable, but I expect the Celtics to play with urgency and win convincingly. Oddsmakers understand the narrative and thus have applied a tax, given Boston is a 10.5-point favorite after only laying 8.5 points in Game 1. My record in this Post section is 41-32-1 ATS and I am adding two more wagers. I will take the Celtics -10.5 points and Boston -1.5 games in the series (Caesars Sportsbook). BETS: Celtics -105 (-110) | Celtics -1.5 series (-120) Why Trust New York Post Betting Doug Kezirian is a New York Post contributor who currently serves as the Chief Content Officer for Only Players, a sports betting media company. Doug has over two decades of experience in the betting space, including spending 11 years at ESPN as a host, columnist and betting analyst. He's also the rare personality who has documented success – 14th place in 2023 Circa Million and Las Vegas SuperContest ($37K), two top-10 finishes in 2022 William Hill College Football Challenge ($58K) and also grabbed headlines with a $297K win on the 2021 NFL Draft.
NBC Sports
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
To prevent prank calls next year, the NFL has plenty of work to do
The 2025 draft has reintroduced millions to the lost art of the prank phone call. The Jerky Boys did it. Bart Simpson has been doing it since 1989. It was one of the funniest moments in what had to have been one of Jerry Jones's favorite '80s movies, Porky's. Growing up in the '70s, when we had three TV channels (PBS didn't count, except when they rolled out the TV cart at school to show us the latest episode of Ripples) and the home video game technology generally sucked, we made prank calls. A lot of prank calls. (We tried to be a little more high-minded than asking, for example, 'Is your refrigerator running?' or 'Do you have Prince Albert in a can?') Now, the prank call is back. With a vengeance. And the NFL has a problem. This year, there were more than a few prank calls made to draft picks. It wasn't just Shedeur Sanders. It happened to Abdul Carter, Ty Warren, Josh Conerly Jr., Isaiah Bond, Kyle McCord, and others. Sanders ended up being the biggest of them all. Because his name was the biggest in the entire draft pool. Because the prank call, supposedly from Saints G.M. Mickey Loomis, traced to their biggest rival, the Falcons. Because, despite the NFL's misguided effort to paint this as some sort of serious breach of confidentiality, the league office sent Sanders's number to roughly 2,000 people. As the NFL under Roger Goodell has done in the past (most notably, to the Saints in 2012), the league has attempted to address a possible cultural problem by hammering the one team it caught red handed. But the NFL has direct responsibility for this one, and the league office needs to make changes far more substantive than wagging a finger at the 32 franchises and saying, 'This better not happen again.' For starters, no prospect's phone number ever should be communicated via the email address that distributes the daily transaction report. That's what happened with Sanders's updated contact information. And that's what put his phone number in Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbricht's email inbox. (We still find the official 'wandering by an open iPad that happened to have that one email visible' explanation to be convenient, and fishy.) The contact information for the draft prospects should go to at most three people per team: owner, G.M., head coach. Or it should go to only one person, with the team designating in advance who will receive it. And the very clear instruction should be that no one else in the organization may be given the number. While that would go a long way toward preventing leaks initiated by one of the 32 teams, it hardly solves the problem. Although Sanders said during his in-draft livestream that he received a new phone specifically for the draft from Boost Mobile (this would explain the separate email with his new number), most players are still using the cell phone that they have had for months if not years. Others have that number. Current friends. Former friends. Former friends who, in the aftermath of a failed romantic relationship, may now be enemies. The punishment of the Falcons has caused many to assume (incorrectly) that all of the prank calls trace back to one of the NFL's teams. Common sense suggests that most if not all of the others came from someone who already has the player's number, or who specifically obtained it from someone who does. (As we've mentioned on PFT Live a couple of times this week, a former player once received a prank call from one of his friends that he'd been traded. While on the way to the airport to fly to his new city, the player learned the truth when he called his agent.) One way to fix this would be to send new brand phones to all the prospects. Of course, that's a lot of phones. Unless the league can find an Official NFL Draft Prospect Burner Phone partner who will provide the phones for free (and also pay the NFL a giant pile of money), the league will have to pay for all of those new phones. (And if the NFL has by next year an Official NFL Draft Prospect Burner Phone partner, you're welcome.) Then there's the simple fact that the prank-call phenomenon will prompt potential copycats to accept the challenge of positioning themselves to do it in 2026. With mock drafts already popping up everywhere (unfortunately), it's not hard to come up with a list of the players who will be waiting for a phone call next April. If the prospect has the same phone number a year from now, the foundation is already in place for another round of prank calls. Another possibility that has been raised here and elsewhere (Bucs G.M. Jason Licht suggested it during an appearance with Rich Eisen) is a pivot to FaceTime. It would be instantly obvious that the call is coming from a draft room, not a dorm room. Then there's the nuclear option. The only way to neutralize the impact of a prank call. As a reader suggested via email (and this is one of those rare moments where I don't regret opening and reviewing them all), why do they need to call the player BEFORE he's drafted? It's not as if the player can say, 'No thanks.' It's a draft. Make the pick, and then call the player. The moment won't change. The tears will still flow. The owner, G.M., and/or head coach will have a chance to utter the same old cliches that will be clipped off for social media. And every player who gets the call after he has been officially picked won't be hearing the NFL equivalent of, 'Wanna lick? Psych!' Time and again, the NFL has shown that it is far more reactive than proactive. When reacting to the prank-call epidemic of 2025, the NFL must be very proactive — and creative — when it comes to ensuring that those who try to make prank calls next April will be wasting their time. Next April, we'll find out whether the league's strategy has worked. If there's even one prank call, the NFL will get an 'F' in what is a very clear and simple pass-fail proposition.
USA Today
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
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