NBA Christmas Day Tip-Off to Feature Five Games

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• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 12:29 pm
  Save the best game for last! Lol.

• Jahmai Posted: Dec.2 at 12:33 pm
  SO awesome! That means I’m going to watch basketball all day long.

• MUBWAR Posted: Dec.2 at 12:36 pm
  heat vs mavs and bulls vs lakers will be sweet. We all know how PP plays against the Knicks so that’s already decided(c’s by 10+). Durantula will toast the Magic.

• Allenp Posted: Dec.2 at 12:39 pm
  Those should be five good games.
  Celtics over Knicks
  Heat over Mavs
  Lakers over Bulls
  Thunder over Magic
  Clippers over Warriors.
  Let’s see who makes the best picks.

• O Posted: Dec.2 at 12:41 pm
  EXACTLY what I was hoping DIDN’T happen! Two scrub teams playing the last game. Shoulda been Bulls vs. Magic and Thunder at Lakers.

• DS44 Posted: Dec.2 at 12:44 pm
  Clippers Warriors?

• datkid Posted: Dec.2 at 12:55 pm
  the clippers aren’t scrubs this year O.. and the warriors still play exciting ball

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 1:03 pm
  The Clips are scrubs until they can prove otherwise.
  Even as great as Blake and EJ are, they still went 32-50 and their number one overall pick will be in a Cavs jersey this year.
  Please they are coach by the dumbest effing coach in the NBA today.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 1:04 pm
  *plus not “please”.
  Using my iPhone.

• JTaylor21 Posted: Dec.2 at 1:06 pm
  I can’t wait for the Clips vs Warriors night-cap.
  NY over BOS
  MIA over DAL
  CHI over LAL
  OKC over ORL
  LAC over GSW

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 1:11 pm
  After all this talk of how “angry” and “disappointed” they are, I better see the Heat’s big 3 combine for like 90 points against the Mavs.

• Caboose Posted: Dec.2 at 1:18 pm
  Knicks over Celts
  Mavs over Heat
  Bulls over Lakers
  Magic over Thunder
  Warriors over Clippers Come at me Miami fans. And cosign Enig on the Big 3 exploding.

• Riggs Posted: Dec.2 at 1:27 pm
  im gonna play 2k12 all the way til noon and just sit back and enjoy basketball

• Allenp Posted: Dec.2 at 1:30 pm
  I see a lot of people have a lot more confidence than me in the Knicks against the Celtics. Particularly with Amare still hurt.

• JTaylor21 Posted: Dec.2 at 1:34 pm
  Amare’s still hurt? Sheeeeeeeit, it’s time for me to flip-flop like a politician on that pick.

• nbk Posted: Dec.2 at 1:44 pm
  His back has been used either as an excuse or a legitimate reason for Amar’e not taking part in a few basketball related activities all summer long.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 1:49 pm
  I’m going to literally wake up and start watching the NBA games that day.
  First game comes on at 8 AM for me

• Seth Posted: Dec.2 at 1:51 pm
  This will be a splendid Christmas indeed! Celtics at noon, please and thank you.

• GP23 Posted: Dec.2 at 1:56 pm
  Can’t wait for Bulls vs. Lakers.

• Overtime Posted: Dec.2 at 2:11 pm
  @Enig You’re lucky man, my first game will be coming on at 5 PM!
  Having said that:
  Boston over Knicks (Pierce and Anthony being high scorers)
  Miami over Dallas
  Lakers over Bulls (Kobe goes between the legs dunk on Boozer, then points at his new knees)
  Thunder torch Magic
  Clippers over Warriors, but Mr Mark Jackson keeps it close

• Garrett Posted: Dec.2 at 2:28 pm
  wont have time to watch any NFL games….

• Slick Ric Posted: Dec.2 at 2:40 pm
  CANT WAIT!!!!!

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 2:40 pm
  All right, here’s my picks:
   
  Celtics over Knicks (No Amare plus Big 3 had tons of time to rest)
  Heat over Mavs (Heat will be p*ssed. Mavs will be minus Chandler & Butler probably)
  Bulls over Lakers (No Bynum for LA. Both Rose and Bryant will go off though)
  Thunder over Magic (All alone 12)
  Warriors over Clippers (Blake will go off too though)

• LakeShow Posted: Dec.2 at 2:47 pm
  Same Enig, 8am is tip off! -Celtics over Knicks -Mavs over Heat -Bulls over Lakers -Thunder over Magic -Clippers over Warriors That’s right, I think the Bulls will beat the Lakes. Lakes suck on Christmas, it’s tradition.

• Allenp Posted: Dec.2 at 2:53 pm
  What is wrong with Bynum? Is he hurt again?

• LakeShow Posted: Dec.2 at 2:55 pm
  ^^Suspended… Remember he wanted to prove he was badass against a 5’5″ dude.. YA. He’s a smarty.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 3:03 pm
  Yup.
  He decided to take out his frustration on the littlest guy on the court who’s a foot shorter and 110 pounds lighter than him so he’s suspended first five games of the season.

• GP23 Posted: Dec.2 at 3:05 pm
  Predictions:
  Heat blowout the Mavs by 20+ (LeBron Triple Double)
  Celtics beat Knicks (Rondo will finally be hittin’ them jumpers)
  Lakers beat Bulls at the buzzer (Kobe does it again !!!)
  Thunder beat Magic (Dwight gets fouled out early in the 4th)
  Clippers beat Warriors (Griffin is posterizing at an alarming rate)

• BoWeezy24 Posted: Dec.2 at 3:07 pm
  Stoudemire Should Just Play, But Carmelo Will Go Off. So I’m Going For The Knicks!

• Megatron Posted: Dec.2 at 3:31 pm
  Celtics over Knicks (celtics always start the season strong)
  Heat over Mavs (Lebron is gonna go off)
  Bulls over Lakers (no Bynum)
  Thunder over Magic (Okc is just way better)
  Clippers over Warriors (golden state can’t play D)

• Megatron Posted: Dec.2 at 3:32 pm
  added to my reasons for chicago beating the lakers is that they can not guard derrick rose

• Allenp Posted: Dec.2 at 3:39 pm
  If Darksaber is reading, click my name.

• Allenp Posted: Dec.2 at 3:40 pm
  I forgot about that Barea suspension. And I didn’t realize he got five games for that. That is crazy.

• Maniac Posted: Dec.2 at 3:41 pm
  - Knicks over Celtics… Will come down to key plays in the last 2 or 3 minutes. Last year was the beginning of the end for the C’s.
  - Heat over Mavs… by 10+ (Big 3 will have a great game).
  - Lakers over Bulls… In a very very close game (overtime maybe?)- Best game of the day. Lakers have a chip on their shoulder.
  - Thunder over Magic… by 10+ (Durant will go off for 30 or 40+)
  - Clippers over Warriors… Who cares? Lmao just kidding, Clips by 5-10. Blake gives a couple highlights

• IAMORANGE4EVER Posted: Dec.2 at 4:00 pm
  I TOO CAN’T WAIT!!!!! GO KNICKS GO!

• Angel of Stern Posted: Dec.2 at 4:05 pm
  Celtics 96 Knicks 89
  Heat 103 Mavs 91
  Bulls 97 Lakers 93
  Thunder 112 Magic 101
  Clippers 108 Warriors 103

• datkid Posted: Dec.2 at 4:26 pm
  Thunder over magic
  clippers over warriors Enig I really think this is the year the clippers prove that they’re not that scrubby tho.

• LakeShow Posted: Dec.2 at 4:34 pm
  ^Whats “not that scrubby”? Like 35 games won, or 40? I think they will win 35-38 personally.

• chingy Posted: Dec.2 at 4:37 pm
  Clippers and Warriors might actually be the most entertaining game. I can see Melo going off for 40+. He shows up for the big games.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 5:04 pm
  You’re seriously overrating Vinny Del Negro Please’s coaching abilities tho

• bike Posted: Dec.2 at 5:20 pm
  Heat 124 Mavs 88
  LeBron 33,12,10
  Bosh 26,11
  Wade 25

• bull22 Posted: Dec.2 at 5:26 pm
  lets try watching some preseason games first, see who will start, what the injury list will look like,see where the free agents will land,etc….
  and not be haphazard fools who base their predictions on last season or pure emotion.. SEE ny knick fans as examples.

• bull22 Posted: Dec.2 at 5:53 pm
  @chingy just like melo showed up against the celtics last year and his bum self got swepted 0-4 with the rest of his team and blamed others for his bad decisions, LOL thanks for the laughs.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Dec.2 at 6:10 pm
  Shoulda been Spurs vs. Memphis for the final game.. Something, anything, besides Clippers vs. Warriors. Even Cavs vs. Kings.

• Megatron Posted: Dec.2 at 6:23 pm
  Jr smith went for 55 points, 22 rebounds, and 7 steals in china. thats crazy numbers

• LA Huey Posted: Dec.2 at 6:31 pm
  Cs over Knicks (continuity vs a team trying to gather themselves)
  Bulls over Lakers (same as above)
  Heat over Mavs (same as above, I’m assuming they don’t resign Chandler)
  Thunder over Magic (OKC is simply better)
  Warriors over Clippers (Blake puts up the highlights but VDN’s still coaching the Clips)
  I will be surprised to see the Clippers win 35 games. VDN is an awful coach. Part of the reason the Bulls improve so much last season was in large part due to the fact that they went from a awful coach to a very good coach.

• chingy Posted: Dec.2 at 6:38 pm
  @bull22 – sure he stunk it up in games 2 and 4 but he went off on games 1 (32,9,3) and 3 (42,17,6,2). So for a guy who in 4 games had 1/2 the games where he went off, I don’t think it’s that far fetched for me to predict him going off on opening night.

• ripslam Posted: Dec.2 at 6:41 pm
  Y’all seriously trippin’ if you think NYK is gonna beat the Celts…

• LA Huey Posted: Dec.2 at 6:41 pm
  Teddy, don’t diss my Warriors like that.

• chingy Posted: Dec.2 at 6:59 pm
  22(!) boards…that’s nearing Bill Russell territory. So I’m guessing JR won’t be able to be back til March?

• b. angus Posted: Dec.2 at 7:02 pm
  4 the nightcap, i woulda preferred clips n twolves…

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 7:03 pm
  Knicks over Celtics in the Garden, Walker and Douglas are the x-factors off the bench
  Mavericks over the Heat, Dirk Diggler got his championship swag
  Bulls upset Lakers in L.A., when it comes to the Lakers what LakeShow says, goes
  Thunder beat the Magic in a close one, Magic media circus distractionnn
  Warriors over the Clippers, Mark Jackson leads and I will follow… HAND DOWN MAN DOWN!

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 7:08 pm
  How would it be an upset if the Bulls beat the Lakers?
  Bulls won more games last year, split the season series and got to their conference finals.

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 7:15 pm
  Because the Lakers losing at home on Christmas will be upsetting, not because the Lakers are a better team.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 7:36 pm
  Lakers always lose on Christmas. Everybody knows that.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 7:42 pm
  Since 2000, Lakers have a record of 3-8 in Christmas day games.

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 7:48 pm
  When you said everybody did you include me? Did you include every single Laker fan that will be tuning into the game? Because if not maybe you should let them know so they don’t waste time in watching the game.. hell why even bother playing the game for that matter, smart guy.

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 7:50 pm
  You know what Im’a be rooting for the Lakers EXTRA hard now…

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 8:00 pm
  Calm the f*ck down and root for whoever the f*ck you want with your sensitive a**.
  I never said Bulls beating Lakers was a sure thing. Nothing ever is.
  You said Bulls beating Lakers would be an upset. I disagreed and told you why, and you got more sensitive than LakeShow when we make fun of his flip-flopping.

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 8:13 pm
  I apologize for any perceived personal insults, Gametimeweezy.
  But sometimes I think Laker fans collectively are more psycho than a million Norman Bates.

• LakeShow Posted: Dec.2 at 8:15 pm
  ^Watch it

• Overtime Posted: Dec.2 at 8:34 pm
  @Enig, don’t worry, some of us retain objectivity
  Bulls @ Lakers is a great way to start, I like the Bulls, especially Deng (being from the UK).
  Question being, are Kobe and Rose gunna be guarding someone who currently isn’t on either roster?

• robb Posted: Dec.2 at 8:43 pm
  Sounds awesome.

• Showtime Posted: Dec.2 at 8:55 pm
  Heat over Mavs…revenge on mind/ key free agents not be inn
  Thunder over Majic…Only D12 with no priemeter D player, j rich is gone
  Bulls over Lakers…derek fisher and blake are still their
  Celtics over Knicks..amare still having back spasms
  Warriors Over Clippers….MOnTA!!! and clipers are still clipers

• BlackPhantom Posted: Dec.2 at 9:06 pm
  I’d LOVE for the Lakers to beat the Bulls on Christmas, but the Lakers are f*ckin awful on Christmas.

• sophmore Posted: Dec.2 at 9:22 pm
  does anyone remember monta ellis one of the top scorers in the nba on the warriors so why is everyone either dissing both the clipps and the warriors or just supporting the clips

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Dec.2 at 9:29 pm
  Sorry Huey… I meant Bucks vs. Raptors.

• Megatron Posted: Dec.2 at 9:37 pm
  Teddy, I’d tell you not to diss my raptors but I can’t argure with the terribleness of that game

• freezy23 Posted: Dec.2 at 9:54 pm
  someone tell me when the entire season schedule is coming out

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 9:55 pm
  If the Lakers lose at home on a Christmas opening day I considered it an upset… it’s not like the Lakers are bums they are still contenders. I didn’t mean it so literally as in Holy Cross upsets Duke or something like that. You came at me like a know-it-all, hence an “Everybody knows that.” type comment. Come at me an I’ll go in on you but it’s all love in love and basketball baby. Don’t apologize its all love baby!

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 9:58 pm
  My boy from L.A. is Lakers fan, I been out there a few times so I know how objective, and blowed off that Cali bud, you all can be lol

• Enigmatic Posted: Dec.2 at 10:28 pm
  Lol I wasn’t in the least bit “coming at you” with that everybody knows that comment.
  I come a lot harder than that (pause).
  And it was a sarcastic “everybody knows that”.
  Poking fun at the Lakers’ recent history of losing Christmas games.
  But seriously, we’ll have to agree to disagree cause Lakers losing to the Bulls at home is not an upset to me.
  Bulls are legit title contenders.
  Lakers will be minus Bynum and plus one bum a** coach in Mike Brown.

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.2 at 10:56 pm
  I can agree to that. I didn’t realize the Lakers had a losing record like that on Christmas. Mike Brown talk about a tool. Only reason he got in was he has no problem working with a superstar that will run the team.

• O Posted: Dec.2 at 11:46 pm
  I don’t care who wins any of those games as long as the Knicks win.

• bnets Posted: Dec.3 at 2:14 am
  Clippers 198 Warriors 201

• Jennifer Posted: Dec.3 at 8:14 am
  Most excited for the Clippers game!!

• Darksaber Posted: Dec.3 at 9:41 am
  ALLENP: i’m always reading. Hehe.
  Thanks for the link, fam. A new one i hadn’t seen yet. Much appreciated.

• #6marjons Posted: Dec.3 at 12:03 pm
  4 1/2 really good games

• zen garden Posted: Dec.3 at 12:12 pm
  thunder will crush orlando all the other games are even

• gnaility Posted: Dec.3 at 9:56 pm
  Something tells me that this xmas will be NBA’s highest tv-viewing rating in history?

• Gerard Himself Posted: Dec.4 at 9:25 am
  over 12 games of basketball… can’t wait!!!!

• IAMORANGE4EVER Posted: Dec.4 at 9:58 am
  @O A healthy Billups, Melo, and Stat are gonna make that W happen for the Knicks on Christmas. In fact, I hope the New York Knicks send a message to the Boston Celtics to kick start the 2011-12 season, and at the end of the game with a W in hand, bow to the Knicks faithful in front of the C’s bench once the clock has ticked to zero. Things done changed!

• Gametimeweezy Posted: Dec.4 at 11:38 am
  We’re smashing on the Celts the Garden is gonna be Crazy…