Big Al McMordie

Off to a good start in the NCAA tourney with TCU and Nebraska cashing. Have Louisville and Wisconsin ongoing. 8 Thursday plays left to go, including a super strong 5-Game Package. Free NCAA Winners at Bigal.com/free

@HawkEmDownChris Manny Sanguillen

Age yourself by naming an MLB catcher you grew up watching. I’ll start: Yadier Molina.

I watched the Oscars tonight, and learned that Terence Stamp died last year. I recently watched him in Stephen Frears' 1984 movie, The Hit. And Stamp was in one of my favorite movies, Stephen Soderbergh's 'The Limey,' which also starred Peter Fonda and Luis Guzman.

I don’t care all that much about the lack of playoff experience. Still, his point has validity. But @FredVanVleet should be MORE troubled by Houston’s own issues. I think the Rockets have not shown they can contend for the title this season. And think they are 50-50 to get out of the first round.

Houston Rockets guard @FredVanVleet isn’t buying the hype around the Spurs. “Have they won it (the Finals)?.. Have they had a playoff series?.. Ok, so everybody slow the f* down.” Says he’s taking the Rockets 🚀 over the Spurs in a seven-game playoffs series. What say you?

@SpursCentral Mark Olberding

Do NOT name: Robinson, Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Wemby, Castle, Harper. Who is your favorite Spurs player of all time?

@gwizzy12 Glad I didn’t see your tweet before I released my Big 10 Tourney Game of the Year on Purdue. Not that the 1-15 stat would have made a difference. But, still, that is nuts for a Matt Painter-coached team.

This feels like it can’t possibly true but quick research tells me it is true Matt Painter Purdue teams are 1-15 against the spread in their last 16 Big Ten Tournament games going back to 2016-2017? They’ve covered once in nine full seasons of BTT games Purdue -10.5 tomorrow..

I don’t think so, Sam. It is only because it was Kobe Bryant. If it was Bam Adebayo sitting in those shoes, nobody would give a toss if someone scored 84 points to pass his 83. The whole thing is silly. Wilt the Stilt is #1. The rest of the list is not worth any amount of angst.

@bigal_com I've had this thought today too, but I guess people consider Kobe the modern record. It's the post-merger high, the post 3-point line high. Or, rather, it was.

This puts it really well and I'm jealous I didn't think of this framing first.

@arkaavs If all you care about is PPG, then maybe you would support changing the name of the MVP Award to "Offensive Player of the Year." But until that occurs, let's consider the 50% of a player's game that is DEFENSE. Wemby won't have the offensive stats of Nikola or Shai but so what?

Guess how many times Wemby was the leading scorer in those OKC matchups he “dominated”

Given that 0 NBA playoff games are played without rest, I wanted to see how the league's elite teams are performing when they weren't unrested. Here are the straight-up and ATS records, and the average point spread differentials (thru March 10): Thunder 47-8 SU; 29-25-1 ATS (avg LD 2.61) Spurs 38-15 SU; 30-23 ATS (avg LD 2.55) Nuggets 30-21 SU; 27-23-1 ATS (avg LD 0.12) Pistons 38-16 SU; 28-26 ATS (avg LD 1.77) Celtics 36-18 SU; 31-23 ATS (avg LD 1.48) Knicks 36-19 SU; 30-25 ATS (avg LD 1.80)

@DPGSpurs This never, ever gets old. And for those who don’t understand the “coin toss” reference, San Antonio and Houston owned the same record, so a coin toss gave Houston its Lottery combinations and San Antonio its combinations.

“We should have lost the got damn coin toss” guy gets me every time 😭

@RealSkipBayless Don’t be myopic, Skip. Boston and New York could win the title. The Spurs and Thunder aren’t locks against the East. This isn’t the early 2000s when the Eastern Conference sucked.

I cannot wait for the Spurs and Thunder in this year's "NBA Finals."

@TermineRadio Yes, Justin. Wembanyama is the best thing to happen to the league since Steph Curry. Nice to see a player care so much about the game. Even an All-Star exhibition.

After years of guys being ‘too cool’ for the regular season, this guy has enough confidence to show emotion like this. Wemby a godsend for the NBA. Love it.

Bunch of malarkey about nobody wanted to schedule miami-oh. First, it wasn’t as highly thought of as, say, Akron coming into the season (and Akron is still higher in Pomeroy’s rankings). Second, Akron had no problem putting teams like Purdue, Penn St, Iona and Yale on its non-conference schedule. Why didn’t Miami-OH play such teams?

@PeteFiutak Disagree because the P4's refuse to play good G6 schools so what are they supposed to do? Undefeated is nearly impossible for any school.

I’ve had enough Absolutely no one - NO ONE - is saying a 29-0 Miami University, or any unbeaten team, should be left out of the NCAA Tournament But a one loss team with ZERO MERELY MEH WINS WHATSOEVER doesn’t automatically deserve any sprinkles RECORD-RANKING … MUST … STOP

@SpursReporter In what world would the Atlanta Hawks ever want to be connected to a strip club?

Spurs big man Luke Kornet just stirred up a league-wide conversation. In a public letter addressed to the Atlanta Hawks organization, Kornet respectfully asked the team to cancel an upcoming promotional night tied to Magic City, the well-known Atlanta strip club. The club reportedly paid a significant sponsorship fee for the event, which has since become a hot topic across the NBA.

@AnthonyRedd00 @AndrewBrady15 @KyleHunterPicks Do you try to be an asshole, Anthony? Or does it just come effortlessly to you? Absolutely no reason to give Kyle any grief.

@AndrewBrady15 @KyleHunterPicks He’s obviously very good. Arbitrary sample sizes chosen to make yourself look as good as possible are lame no matter how good you are.

Bad day on my plays today. I didn’t have good reads on the overs especially. 46-26 last 72.

@RealTomPetrini Pump the brakes. OKC’s scoring margin is significantly better. SA should not be title favorites. Let’s see where SA stands in mid-march after their tough 9-game schedule to open that month.

Walked into Detroit and bullied the biggest bullies in the league Spurs are the best team in the world for the last two months, they should be title favorites and Wemby should be the MVP frontrunner None of this should be particularly controversial

@Jumpshot8 Truth.

Wemby is the best cheat code in the NBA since Wilt and if people think they can’t win it all. They don’t get how this man impacts the game. Players will take major pay cuts to play with him soon!

@SpursReporter Just goes to show you that there are a lot of stupid people walking this earth.

A lot of fans have believed that for years, but when you actually look at how the lottery works, it’s hard to sell that angle. The ping pong balls are drawn in front of media members before the televised reveal, which makes outright manipulation highly unlikely. It’s also worth noting whether the teams in question were actually lottery “losers.” Skepticism is fair. Conspiracy is a much tougher case to make.

@winone Since 1990, Kansas has played 12 teams at home on Monday (going into tonight) that owned a better W/L record than Kansas. Kansas is 12-0 in those games. 7-5 ATS.

@bigal_com They talked about it before the game but mentioned it was never against a #1 ranked team

Watching Kansas/Arizona on ESPN. They showed a fan in the stands which said, Bill Self 38-0 at home on Big Monday. I looked up Kansas’ home record on Mondays. It is 60-0 since 2002 (35-20-3 ATS). So, 56-0 under Self. 4-0 with Roy Williams. Not just “Big Monday” TV games. ANY Monday game — TV or not!