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A staple of the mid-season event for quite some time now has been the sight of 3-point king. Yet, as things stand that won’t be the case this year or at least, not from the start of the affair. What’s the deal with Steph Curry. Let’s find out. Steph Curry won’t start the 2024 NBA All-Star Game You read the right. For the first time in 10 years, Stephen Curry will not start at the NBA All-Star Game. While there has been no official word on why that is, what we can assume is that the Warriors’ record of 19-23 probably has something to do with it. Indeed, the team lost to the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night 134-133, a result that was hard to swallow as you can probably imagine. Incidentally, Curry finished second in fan voting, but player and media tabulations appear to have had a negative effect. In his stead, we will see Dallas’ Luka Doncic and Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander starting for the West. Where OKC’s star is concerned, he’s the man currently leading the league i...

The 2023-24 NBA season got underway with a pair of great Western Conference matchups on Tuesday. Now, the rest of the league will spring into action, including a high-profile matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks, plus other up start teams in action like the Thunder and Hawks, and more! A massive slate of NBA hoops to really kick off the season   definitely calls for a mega parlay. Below are my plays for Wednesday, and also be sure to check out all of our strong > NBA picks strong >  for tonight’s season-opening Game s. Hawks -3.5 (-110)   Thunder ML (+100)   Knicks ML (+136)   NBA parlay odds: +801   For this parlay, we are going with 2 underdogs on the money line and 1 favorite against the spread. Let’s break down each of the 3 legs.     [ promo_code type=” promoSingle ” ids=”375796″ titles=”Bet $5, Get $200 in Bonus Bets! (FanDuel Single Offer)”]   Atlanta Hawks -3.5 over Charlotte Hornets (-110)   After get...

The new NBA season finally tips-off on Tuesday night with a pair of Western Conference showdowns. First it will be the defending champions Nuggets taking on the LA Lakers, followed by the Phoenix Suns squaring off with the Golden State Warriors. My focus is on the Suns vs Warriors clash and I’ve prepared a tasty Same Game Parlay. Tip-off is at 10 ET on TNT, continue reading below to see my bet. Don’t forget to bookmark our NBA Predictions page for picks on the side and total for every single Game of the 2023-24 NBA season. Let’s dive into my SGP bet now! Stephen Curry to Score 25+ Points (-330) Devin Booker 2+ Made Threes (-230) Bradley Beal 1+ Made Threes (-550) Jusuf Nurkic to Record 10+ Rebounds (+140) Same Game Parlay odds: +444 Stephen Curry to Score 25+ Points (-330) The Warriors had a near perfect preseason starting off 4-0, only to lose to the San Antonio Spurs in the final game. Steph had his worst shooting night of the preseason that day going just 2-for-11 fro...

Is it too soon to start talking NBA MVP? I don't think so. We're basically a quarter of the way into the season. It's still early , but it's not that early . We know, for instance, that the Cleveland Cavaliers made a dynamite decision in pushing all in for Donovan Mitchell. We've seen enough to confidently say that. If you believe Mitchell has been the early season MVP, I won't argue with you. I agreed with you a week ago.  Reasonable minds could also argue for Luka Doncic, the league's leading scorer, or Giannis Antetokounmpo, the only player who is averaging at least 25-10-5, or Stephen Curry, who has probably been the best player so far this season. But the Warriors are under .500. A month from now, as Golden State narrows its rotation and at least stops bleeding bench points at a catastrophic rate, Curry would be my pick to be in the MVP lead.  Ja Morant deserves some noise.  But...

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you play adult league basketball, you've seen it a million times. Some new squad comes in, a ragtag group of ringers who, to the naked eye, look like a juggernaut. They're taller, stronger, younger, more athletic. Yet somehow they look up at the scoreboard and they've lost to a bunch of 40-year-old lawyers and accountants whose feet didn't leave the floor the entire game. Why? Because that team has been playing together and winning rec league titles for 20 years. Continuity matters in sports, and especially basketball, where teamwork and chemistry are so vital. That's partly why this season's 10-3 start by the Utah Jazz was so baffling. When they traded away four of their five starters from last season -- Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Bojan Bogdanovic and Royce O'Neale -- most expected head front office exec Danny Ainge to sell off any remaining parts and get direc...

Shed a tear for the New Orleans Pelicans, folks. The Western Conference's No. 2 seed, owners of 10 total first-round picks in the next seven drafts along with three potentially valuable swaps, are fading out of the race of Victor Wembanyama. This of course has nothing to do with their own performance. Frankly, it would've been practically unfair to give such an incredible prospect to a team that already ranks in the top six in both offense and defense. No, their hopes were pinned to the rapidly ascending Los Angeles Lakers. After a 2-10 start that included literally the worst shooting stretch in NBA History , the Lakers are clawing their way back to .500 behind the very player that put New Orleans in the race for Wembanyama in the first place. Anthony Davis looks like an MVP candidate again, LeBron James is making all of his 3-pointers, Russell Westbrook has embraced the bench, and if this continues, New...

The New Orleans Pelicans are one of the NBA's surprise success stories this season -- well, they're only a surprise if you haven't really been paying attention. Slowly but surely, the Pelicans have laid the groundwork since the 2019 trade that sent franchise superstar Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart and four first-round picks. Win totals in the 30s and three coaches in four seasons didn't necessarily bode well for the franchise's future, despite Ingram blossoming and the immediate impact of No. 1 overall pick Zion Williamson. But things took a U-turn toward relevance last February, when the Pelicans acquired longtime Portland Trail Blazer CJ McCollum, along with Larry Nance Jr. and Tony Snell in exchange for four players, a protected first-round pick (which didn't convey) and two future second-rounders. McCollum's impact was ...

Blow. It. Up. They are NBA Twitter's three favorite words, but they tend to be far less realistic than critics want to accept. Fans think in terms of the championship binary. They want teams to either be directly com Pet ing for one or rebuilding toward that end. Owners treat winning as a spectrum. Championships are nice. Turning a profit is a necessity. Get most owners a couple of home playoff Game s while avoiding the luxury tax and they're going to be pretty happy. Unsurprisingly, this kind of inertia tends to keep teams together well beyond their expiration date. There might be a dozen teams that need to be blown up in a given season. We're lucky to see one or two teams actually pull the trigger. So let's look through the standings now and attempt to figure out who should and shouldn't push that big red button and start over again. We'll rank all 30 teams, starting with the NBA's ...