Celtics Take Commanding East Finals Lead, Super Bowl Champ James White Talks Patriots

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Now w RKO presents Boston's only nightlysports betting show, The Gambler, with
Adam Kaufman covering spreads, props,parlays, and more. The Gambler starts.
Now here's Adam Kaufman. All right. I know it's not over yet.
There's still nine and a half minutesto go in regulation. But if

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I may, everybody feeling better?Now, y'all feeling better? All these
people worried about what we saw inGame one? Oh my god, the
Pacers. They're gonna give the Celticsso much trouble. And what did we
tell you? We came on thisshow right after and I said, nothing
has changed. Celtics probably won't sweet, definitely won't go seven, five,

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maybe six. That is what weare looking at. First quarter night gif
the Pacers credit strong out of thegate, twenty seven to twenty five lead
after one. But you know whathappened? Then? Know what happened?
Then Dan Watkins a eat to nothing, Boston run not bad twenty to nothing
in the playoffs? Are you kiddingme? I'm just judges merely, just

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barely, by the way, coveredour minus four and a half first half
bet. The Pacers did go ona run to close the half. But
as things stand right now, andI apologize to those of you listening in
podcast form, it's already done.You already know what happened. Celtics up
two ozho whatever the final score.But here in real time, as we
sit Celtics with eight forty five togo, lead by fifteen. Yeah,
I'm just mad though we missed likethe biggest, biggest, biggest, the

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biggest narrative street play like ever,the Jalen Brown snub. I can't believe
we didn't play it the snub game. Not only do we not play it
as part of the people's parlay andif feels straight anything like that, we
didn't even discuss it. No,how do we overlook that? I'm such
a narrative street guy. I knownormally we normally we're all over the narrative

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street play too much. So probablymaybe we need to like dedicate like a
like a three minutes like, allright, are there any narratives going into
this game that we need to play? Let's great point, you know,
maybe we need a narrative segment.Sure, any sponsors out there want to
sponsor a narrative segment? Maybe weshould do that. Why not always thinking
we'll have to get We'll have toget our guest thoughts on it. If
there's any narratives for game two inMinnesota tomorrow night that we just don't miss,

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we are we are going to haveone of our I got one.
I'm saving for that. I don'tknow if I kind of played as a
show play, but as far asthe storyline goes narrative street, I definitely
have one in mind. So yes, remind me, because I'll forget I
get scatterbrained. But I would definitelylike to bring that up with Nick Whalen,
who is going to join us fromRoad to Wire coming up in the
second hour a little less than anhour from now. This game obviously will

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be long over by then. We'llhave some time to digest it. Just
Dan and I. We'll bring Nickon, we'll talk about what we saw
tonight. We may very well havenot just lines and totals, obviously,
but props out for game three bythat point in time, so we can
look ahead see how we're feeling aboutthat based on final statistics tonight and what
kind of line movement there has beenfrom game two to Game three. That

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is two days from now in Indiana. Of course, these teams are on
that every other night pattern, whichis always fun. That's a good thing.
We'll talk about game two of theWestern Conference Final, the Mavericks and
the Timberwolves k and Minnesota bounced backeven the series turned into a best of
five that is tomorrow night, andnaturally we will build out a people's parlay
with Nick as well. I'm stillconsidering some of my options. Happy to

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be in the clubhouse with a successfulstraight tonight. You still have time on
yours. Dan, it got offto a really slow start. Zero first
half points on a Miles Turner.We need seventeen out of him. He
had a quick eight in the thirdquarter, but again with eight minutes and
change to go here in regulation,we still need another nine from him.

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Yeah, that's not ideal, especiallyif the Pacers do decide to pack it
and depending on whether this turns intoa twenty twenty five point lead, I
don't know. Again right now,it's sitting at fifteen, coming up in
about ten minutes. Very excited aboutthis. We didn't want to, especially
for those of you out there listeningto the podcast, and even honestly,
let's recognize where we're at, youknow, is a Celtics Conference Finals playoff

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game on right now. I fullyunderstand that we may not have huge listenership
in this moment. I wouldn't belistening. I'd be watching the game,
So I get it. But forthose of you out there in podcast form,
you know, how are we goingto fill the time. We're not
just going to sit here and sweatthe game. That's boring for people listening.
So we want to give you areason to tune in, give you
a reason to listen. And wefound one. We found one I'm very

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excited about for the first time onthe show. We love to have former
athletes, Boston heroes, you know, champions of the city of their respective
sports come on this program. We'regoing to have another sweet Feet. James
White is going to join us,three times champion of the Patriots in about
ten minutes, talk about Pat's OTAshis impressions of Drake May. I don't

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know that he's seen him in personever, even in college. I'm not
sure. We'll have to ask him, but how he feels about him being
the next guy, the future quarterbackof the Patriots. Will we see him
in week one? And it lookslike you pointed this out to me that
old sweet feed. There's dabbling alittle bit in the gambling space. It
looks like he, yeah, basedoff his podcast and he's definitely like reacting

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to games and stuff like that.So we'll have to see what he's doing
in the space. Absolutely, he'sgot the money down pod had Adam Schefter
on recently as a matter of fact, so I want to see what he's
thinking. As far as the overunder of four and a half wins,
we do have some news, somepretty significant news here in this game,
Tyree's Haliburton leg injury. He isnot going to return. So if you

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played unders on Haliburton props, thoseare in. I was on the under
nineteen and a half points for him. He has ten. I don't know
what his assist line was because hedid finish with eight, so that may
have gone over if it was sevenand a half eight it was eight.
I think it was eight and ahalf. Well, then in by the
skin of your teeth if you playedthat. And also, and I think

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this was a plus money opportunity ifyou went under three and a half threes
With the past that he has beenon of late, two of six in
this one before the exit, Socongrats on that. He had like four
or five three pointers just in thefirst half. Last game, he was
shooting out of his mind and tooktwice as many attempts as he got off
tonight. So quiet night for Haliburton, Quiet night for the Pacers. I

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realized it is not technically over yet, but it dann Well better be Dan
because if Haliburton is out for theduration of this one, I know Siakam
is great and they obviously have agood thing come around on him now.
I look, I've never felt thatSiakam's a bad player or anything like that.
My mind felt like you were throwna little shade his way the past
couple of nights. My thing withhim when we were talking about him last

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night from a prop perspective is Ifeel like he is a little inconsistent.
Sure, so I don't entirely knowhow to bet him when I'm going to
bet him, But it's looking likeover, looking like over. Yeah,
I mean, he's at twenty eightpoints tonight on thirteen of seventeen, I
think his line was nineteen and ahalf. They got twenty names Haliburton.
It got it to twenty and ahalf. So either way, I mean,

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you cleared it with these if youwent over. So, but it's
these big guys man against the Celts. One of them is going to go
off. I was on unfortunately,I was on Turner tonight and that's not
looking good for us. A completeopposite of game one where he cleared the
Uh he cleared his prop in thefirst half when we played it in game
one, and then tonight no pointsin the first half, so very tough.
He had three fouls early too,which definitely hurt. But uh yeah,

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not good there. And but Siakamwas just a monster for Indiana.
At what point do you think,and we're not there yet seven and a
half to go, At what pointdo you think that either of these teams
clears the benches five minutes? Uh? Yeah, between four and five minutes,
I think. I mean, obviouslydepends on you know, four and
five minutes. But what what's thescore? What's the deficit? Right because

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obviously over twenty Yeah, I'll becurious when the Pacers decided to wave the
way did you take did you takethe full? The full game over?
I did not play the total.I did no. I played the minus
nine, as we talked about lastnight. Yeah, I got the eight
and a half. I did theCelts team total, which that better hit.
They need thirteen points in seven anda half minutes, one ninety right

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now, total twenty four and ahalf is what I got it at.
I got the eight and a halfon the Celtics. Derek White's over was
good, a good shooting night forhim. He started off a little cold
too, but he really turned iton four to three pointers. So if
you played Fiddle, second other pickthat cleared with these hmmm, two and
a half three's there, and whilewe're still still sweat it, just just

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obi top and just don't touch theball, right, check him out,
get him out of the game.Look, if that one hits for us
and for Fiddle, I mean clearlywe would have played the right one,
the super spicy one, the thelevel ten. Yeah, because that was
a plus one ninety. That wouldbe huge for us. It'd be great
if that ends up hitting. Youknow, I don't know if you remember
the plays that I gave out lastnight, his plays that I just kind

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of liked and considered for the People'sparlay, but I didn't play them.
So two of them are actually introuble. So I I had a pecking
order for these and I played themall individually. Obviously doesn't credit towards show
place, but two of them arein danger. I would even go so
far as to say they're probably goingto lose, which was Tatum over ten

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and a half rebounds, which wasprobably my third of the three. My
second was Horford over ten and ahalf points. He's sitting at six,
my favorite. So you might say, my backup play to the minus four
and a half first half. Thishit in the first half. This is
something we need to think about goingforward. There is a trend here now

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of relative consistency, at least goingback to the start of the last round.
That was Drew Holliday over four anda half assists and not at heavy
juice nine to nine right now.Nine. Yeah, that's impressive. Yeah,
something to be mindful of obviously interms of what a facilitator he has

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been. And Jalen Brown, notthat he ever is this huge fai iitator,
but not at all tonight just shootshoot shoot thirteen of twenty four to
three of eight from three. Stillcan't hit free throws. He's six of
nine. Nice thirty five points though, yeah, thirty five points. I
can't believe we missed that narrative.It blows my mind. But anyway,

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that's what's going on with this gameat the moment. Celtics well on their
way to turning this thing into asituation where the Pacers have to win four
out of five, which is notgoing to happen. Do not worry about
that the Celtics. I mean Iwhen I say it's not gonna happen,
I mean barring like catastrophe. AndI don't even mean meltdown. I mean
like Tatum gets hurt early in Gamethree and is done for the series,

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right then, you know, like, yeah, something like that lets the
Pacers back in. But if theCeltics stay healthy, they're important players,
stay healthy, due respect to LukeCornett, then they're fine. Off to
the NBA Finals too. I don'tknow. Is it gonna be Kyrie Hervik
on the other side, Kyrie andLuca. Is it gonna be ant Man,

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the new god of the NBA,the new face? Yeah, I
don't know. We'll see some ofthe stuff we'll get into a little bit
later on with Nick Whalen at theend of the show. We will spend
a little time on hockey, andas things stand at the second intermission,
the Oilers up on the Stars twoto one at this moment in game one

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of the Western Conference Final. We'lltalk about this game. We'll look at
the game two obviously, Game twoin the Eastern Conference Finals, see of
Florida can go up two to zeroon the Rangers. That's coming up a
little bit later on with another firsttime guest. We got two first time
guests of the show here in thisone. It's Patrick Gates at Gator Betting.
He is going to come on withus from odds breakers, there are
so many. There's odds shopper,odds checker, odds breakers, odds.

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I don't know, others I'm notthinking of right now. Well, the
real question is, though, ishe a Wisconsin grad too? We need
maybe maybe he has family that ourBack's got to be a time we need
a tie. There's got to bea tie in somehow, because you got
James White and Nick Whalen, whoare both Badgers. Yeah, and as
she talked to the two of themabout our disdain for that basketball, there

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we go. Yeah, I thinkwe we let Whalen know, Yeah,
Whalen knows yeah. Derek White upover twenty. This is a confusing game
in terms of how to bet Gamethree, but we'll spend a little time
on that a little bit later onin the hour when we come back.
Very excited about this James White,three time Super Bowl champ. Here on

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greatly appreciate that Pacers are waving thewhite flag as expected. About four and
a half to go. Celtics areup by sixteen. All the starters are

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out. We just got screwed Obitop and hit a three pointer. Oh
did he plus one? Ninety forhim to not do it, and he
did messed up Fiddle's official show bet. Unfortunately for us, the only reason
he's in the game is because Haliburtongot hurt. So this is what this
bad karma for me celebrating the Halliburtoncheckxit. Yeah, don't celebrate injury.

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That's what I get. All ofa sudden topping who shouldn't even be in
there, hits the three pointer.Celtics are gonna win, though hopefully they
cover as well, as long astheir backups don't screw things up. Get
the minus nine. That would benice, but people's parlay is not going
to hit sadly. We'll talk moreabout this game coming up in a little

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bit. I want to dovetail intofootball with a first time guest of this
show, and it's a pretty bigdeal. We're happy to have this guy
be part of the program. Threetimes Super Bowl champion James White. Yeah,
I think you're familiar with him.Get him on Twitter at sweet Feet
Underscore White. This man right here. I'm not just saying this because he

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is here with us. I havesaid this I don't know how many times
on Twitter before over the years.I will die on this Hill. He
should have been the Super Bowl MVPback in Super Bowl fifty one. He
was robbed this stupid quarterback narrative.We're grateful for you, Tom, we
love you. It just it shouldhave been this guy. Best game I've
ever seen in person or otherwise.Incredible comeback. We've all seen the DVD.

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My kids watch it probably weekly.James, how are you man?
Welcome to the show. I'm doingwell, Okay, good plain. I
appreciate the introduction, appreciates you guyshaving me on tonight. So I was
checking out your Twitter and forgive meif this has been going on for a
while and I just didn't know.But the Money Down Podcast, Are you
dabbling in the gambling space here?Yeah? I mean one of my good

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friends, he's really into the space. Made one of our segments. We
can really Showcate how good he isof the game. Was It's very interesting.
I know it's not for everybody,but it brings in a lot of
money, it brings in some differentviewership, and it makes you watch the
game a little bit different. Wegot money on the line. Well,
it's a general theme of this show, so we hope everybody's into it.
That's for sure, and obviously we'llmostly talk about the Pats and not spend

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too much time on like gambling relatedquestions. But it's a good It's a
good place to start, man,because you know, the the over under
for this team is four and ahalf wins. Dan here, we you
know, sat when the schedule cameout. We went game by game,
as you know, the lazy sportstalk radio thing to do, and we
both have this team maybe optimistically atsix seven wins. We're clear in the

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four and a half. We hadhim at ten last year, so have
we been wrong before? That's fair? But how do you see this team
in twenty twenty four? I believethey can get over six wins. I
think those shocks on people. Thedefense is very good and they have been
good over the last several years.The offense just has to pick up their
slide. That's the biggest question markwhen it comes to this thing. What

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will the offensive line would look like? What will the quarterback position look like?
How I think the receiver room ispretty pretty talented. Just who's going
to be those you know? Ithink we have about three guys that are
very impactful. Then the rest ofthose guys will be filling in this role
players and you got Remondre Stevenson stillin the back. So there's there's potential
there to get consistency from whichever quarterbackyou're playing. It's a consistency from the

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offensive line and you score just somepoints. You got a good enough defense
to win you I think above sixor seven games. James so Ota is
the first first few workouts have wrappedup this week. Just how important are
these for the players? These thesevoluntary workouts where you know, guys just
starting to go through the reps hereat the start of the at the start
of I don't want to say it, but you know, before training camp

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and all that, Just how howmuch do you take away from these workouts?
I think it's very important. Ithink it's a little bit more important
for some of the younger players,especially, you know, the rookies,
just trying to get acclimated to theto the new city, new coaches,
new schemes. There's a lot thrownat you all at once. You're trying
to soak in a ton of information, You're trying to learn about your teammates,
You're trying to enjoy yourself. There'sjust finding that balance and just going

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out there and performing and trying tolimit mistakes. I think that's what it's
all about. And you want tobuild team chemistry too as well. You
want to, I said, youwant to learn about your teammates. You
want to build chemistry on the field, build it off the field. I
think that's where the off season otaworkouts really are the most important. You're
only thirty two years old, butbecause you're retired, just by sheer definition

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of that, that makes you old. You're an old man in the game
of football. But you're still Yeah, you're football old. You're still connected
though obviously to you know many peoplein Foxborough, be at front office or
you know some maybe even on thefield, I'm not sure, but definitely
members of the coaching staff that youplayed with, which again makes you old

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because you have teammates that are nowcoaches. Who's the quarterback Week one is?
You know, and we'll talk aboutDrake May But is it May or
is it Jacoby Brissett who you alsoplayed with. I believe that, jacober
said, I truly believe he'll startthe entire season, barring you know,
he doesn't get hurt whatsoever. Iknow, you know, everybody is highly
anticipating Drake May playing, and youknow they wanted him to be out there,

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you know, at some point throughoutthe season. But there's nothing wrong
with him sitting and you know,maturing, competing against you know, the
first team defense, you know,all throughout the year, you know,
learning Jacoby, teaching him, justcompeting, and then when his time comes,
you know he's ready. I knowthere's been quarterbacks like last year c
J. Stroud, he was ina lot anomaly taking his team to the

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playoffs, really shocking the world whenit came to that with the way he
performed. Not saying he was gonnabe bad in his rookieyear, but it's
tough to come in, you know, as a top five pick and go
out there and perform well at aconsistent level for seventeen games. So I
believe that that jacobra said gets outthere and plays well for him, I
truly believe he's underrated. You know, he hasn't really had many opportunities to

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be a true starter in this league, and I'm I'm sure he's excited for
this opportunity. So when fans seevideos of practice, you know what we're
allowed to see, you know,for the public. How much should we
take away out of you know,who gets the first reps and all that,
and you know then who goes second, who goes third? Because there
was a big deal earlier this weekthat it was Bailey Zappy going ahead of

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Drake may Is is that a precursorto what the depth chart's going to look
like or is that just the youknow, the coach is just maybe throwing
Bailey Zappi out there to kind ofmess with people and keep them off Drake
May. No, I mean Baileyearn earns that spot to being the guy
getting you know, the second mostrests. At this point, you got
your Kobe, who you know ispresumably going to be the starter, and
he got Zappi, who's played morethan any of the other quarterbacks that are

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on the roster, regardless of youif you have a top three pick,
he has to earn those extra reps. He has to prove himself and it's
as a competition. I think that'swhat it's all about. Each and every
one of those guys want to bethe starter. Jacobe said his interview was
like just a few days ago,that's a beautiful part about everybody thinks they
can be the guy made the bestman win and that's what you want.

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Drake May is it's well one liketo what Dad was just talking about.
I don't know why Bailey's Appy's evenon this roster anymore. Like it's and
no disrespect to to him, like, you know, appreciate what he did
the last couple of years, buthe's if there's one thing we know,
he's not the guy, so maybehe can find an opportunity somewhere else.
Drake May is, if not atthe start of the year, going to

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be the backup, and it iseventually, maybe even by the end of
the year or mid season, goingto be the starter for this team.
Ultimately. What I'm wondering though,is do you like Drake May Like when
they took him third? Was thatwho you wanted to see? Were you
like some of us who you know, maybe weren't even committed to a quarterback
and would have been happy with MarvinHarrison Junior? What was your view around

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the draft? Oh yeah, Iwas all in on Marvin Harrison g you
know, working at Big ten Networklast year, I got to know watch
him pretty you know, like everysingle week and watching know what he did
I thought he was arguably the bestplayer in the draft. Out of love
for them take Marvel here, ButI understand, you know why you get
a guy like Drake may I thinkit's a good pick. I think there's
a lot of raw talent there,you know, a lot of untapped potential

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and just taste coaching. Not sayingthat he couldn't walk in there and start
re won and play well. Youknow, I'm not sure. I haven't
you know, dove that much intohim, but he seems like a guy
who has good energy about him.He's tough, has the armor stream you
know, has the side so hehas everything that you want to see in
a starting quarterback in this league,and I think he could be successful.
It's just tough. It's tough playingin that position in this league. You

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never really know what any player isgoing to do at any position, but
especially the quarterbacks. It's so tough. There's so many things you're asked to
do, and especially when you're atop five pig. The expectations through the
roof so James Is. The Patriotsoffense is has struggled the past few years.
One of the things that I've beensaying is that they haven't replaced you,
man, like they have not hadthat guy that can come in and

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pick up the five to ten yardstough to get when you just got to
keep moving the chains. Curious ifyou've watched the tape on Antonio Gibson and
if you think he could kind ofrole that they just still have not filled
since you left. Yeah, Ibelieve he can feel that role. I
know, Remondra the guy who canplay all three downs, but it's tough
you playing you know, eighty ninetypercent of the snatch and then being you
know, a mismatch guy on thirddowns and things like that. When you

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can bring in a guy who specificallydoes that, it makes you know teams
have to truly scheme for that player. And Antonio Gibson he can get it
done. Play receiver in college,you know, play back in the league
over the last several years, breaksthe toun of tackles and catch the football.
So you can definitely feel that void. Who is who do you have
your eyes on this year? Youknow, there have been a lot of
people that have spent time talking about, all right, just how talented is

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the roster actually and and they've donea good job of you know, re
signing some of the important pieces fromwhat we'll call the Bill Belichick era.
But it is a new regime beit, you know, with Elliott Wolf
obviously, Girod and just some newguys that are coming in. Is is
there someone that you kind of havecircled going into the season as like this,
this is the guy that I'm watchingfor a big performance. Oh to

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pick one guys, It's hard tochoose, but I want to. I
want to see ty Kwan Thornton,you know, take that next step.
Obviously, you know he's hasn't donetoo much to prove himself just yet.
But he's the one guy in thatreceiver room he's just a little bit different.
He has he can more speed thananybody in that room. And he
has the quickness. He has thehands to get out, you know,

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to catch the football. He canget in and out of his cussa.
It's all about confidence. He gota new officer coordinator, maybe get a
fresh start their new life. Hegained some weight. Say he wants to
play it like one ninety I believehe said so. Putting up this all
scene. As far as the wait, now it has to show up on
the field. That's the guy whoI'm watching this year. So last week
when the NFL did their schedule revealand all that we were we were laughing

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about how it's just it's become thisbig spectacle, how literally the NFL just
has this hold all over all ofour lives that were tuning in just to
see them say when they're going toplay, and it's just it's it's nuts.
But for you as a player,when the schedule comes out, what
are you looking at? What's thefirst thing that jumps out to you when
you see your schedule. I thoughtyou were going to ask him about the
video and why he wasn't in it. Oh, well that you on that

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too. Yeah, I mean,I know those guys, Jewels, Gron
did a great job, Ernie wasit was awesome. I love to see
those guys are Those guys are prettygood actors. But what I look for
is probably just the first game.You know, probably see how many division
games you're playing. Is you don'treally pay to you look for your bye
week TV have an early bye week, late bye week, and they probably
see how many I mean, thosecold games are gonna be playing at the

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end of the year. Two thatmay it some They used to always throw
the Miami game at US in January, so you're in the freezing cold New
England. They can go down inJanuary and playing the heat, which is
always you know, tough for us. We you know, had quite a
few losses at the back end ofthe year when we would play them.
But yeah, definitely circle that firstgame and you know, everything else it'll
fall into place. You never reallyknow how teams are going to shape out

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once the season actually starts. Idon't know if you were there, you
weren't on TV. If you were, but did you have a watch party
for the Tom Brady roast on Netflix? Were You're just sitting there cackling the
whole time I was rolling. Ifyou liked dark humor, I mean it
was. It was truly truly hilarious. I mean I can understand why some
people might not have liked it,but yeah, it was cool to see,

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you know, Tom Bill, youknow craft in there, everybody,
you know, jewels, you know, taking shots to one another, and
you know, maybe some truth tosome of the stuff, maybe not,
but everybody could try to read betweenthe lines, you know, had their
opinions on that, and the comediansdid a great job. Kevin Hart,
Andy Schultz, al was god.They they let them have it. Yeah,
it was a lot of fun.It's it's good for a rewatch for

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people out there. He had tolaugh a second time around, all right
before we let you go here.Celtics just won. They've gone Final one
twenty six ten, beat the Pacersup two zero in this series. Just
as a former player of this areawho was here for you know, almost
a decade, what was either atthe time when you were here or even
now after the fact, you know, elsewhere, what's the rooting interest for

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the other teams in the city asthey chase a champion, Because, as
you know, expectations are high forthis Boston team, expectations that you dealt
with almost annually as a Patriot.Oh yeah, it's title town. So
it's it's definitely always fun watching whetherit's the Red Sox, Brewins, Celtics,
you know them make it into theplayoffs, trying to make their run
as long as they're you know,not playing one of my hometown teams that

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I'm rooting for. I'm always I'malways root for that and it's funny we
always get the Celtics. The Bruinsget matched that. They got matched up
against the Panthers this year, FloridaPanthers and then the Celtics always get matched
up against the heat and the playoffs, so that's that's always a fun one
to watch. But yeah, thisis an exciting team to watch. You
know, Tatum Brown, Derrick White, you know, Drew Holliday, those

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guys. I mean, I thinkthis is their year to do it.
I mean, they've been playing wellall year long. You know, they're
good chemistry, They got guys atevery single position. I think, especially
if they can get Porzingis back,I think this is they've got to win
it this year. See Dan,we always talk about James White Wisconsin.
I forgot we have a Fort Lauderdaleguy. Yeah, can't forget that.

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How about how about your Panthers?Are they going all the way? You
know, I don't know too muchabout hockey Bottle. I've heard they're really
good. So so far, sogood man to one. They're back at
it tomorrow. Yeah, I've heardthe ball. Hey luck today. James
White three times Super Bowl champion ofthe Patriots. You can check out the

(27:22):
Money Down podcast. Get them onTwitter at sweet Feet Underscore White, James,
A lot of fun man. Loveto have you back, especially as
we get closer to the season.Awesome, man, I appreciate you guys
having me absolutely again James White,long of the Pats and a new friend
of this show. When we comeback. More on this Celtics win two
to ozer lead in the East Finals. Need to vent about bad bets.

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You've come to the right place.Tell us about it. Call six one
seven two six six six eight sixeight. That's six one seven two six
six six eight six eight, orif you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
use the top back button. Nowback to the Gambler with Adam Kaufman on
w RKO. A lot of greatstuff with James White. That was a

(28:07):
really fun conversation, just like whenwe have you know, Jonathan papplebam on,
Will Middlebrooks on some of these otherathletes that have joined us. To
make sure you check out the podcastif you want to catch any of that
Gambler with Avn Coffin wherever you getyour podcasts. And it was nice to
mix in down a little bit ofgambling talk in there. Absolutely. I
think by the time he comes backwith us by Football season. I think
he'll fully be embraced in the space. Yeah, it sounds like say he's

(28:30):
trending, he's teetering. Definitely,he wants to but six or seven wins,
did you hear him? Yeah,that's you're clearing that four and a
half, no problem. I mean, it's just a matter of time before
we punch that thing officially as ashow future. Yeah, it's just the
juice. I don't know if wejust get greeting and go for five and
a half at a plus money.Mmm, I'm not there. I'd like

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to be there. I'm not there. I'm only saying it because if we
lose, only you lose the oneunit. How juiced is it at four
and a half at least minus onesixty? Ugh? Yeah, and then
there's a there's one rogue five outthere at minus one twenty. All right,
I'll put some thought into that.So we'll wait till we get to
training camp, you know, tillyou see a couple videos of Jail and
Polk making plays, and you're you'regonna be like, oh, okay,

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all right, they got a guy. They got a guy, all right,
So the Celtics big winners. Idon't want to call it easy,
but relatively easy, Let's be honest. I mean the first quarter was a
bit of a slog. Celtics goon that twenty to zero run Pacers answer
ever so slightly. Celtics still ledby six points at the half, dominated

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the third, and held off,if you will, in the fourth because
Indiana, as we talked about,took all their starters out, even some
of their key reserves like freaking ObiToppin who hit the one three that we
didn't need to hit and then leftthe game promptly, and they put in
all the scrubs at that point intime. Here's just a wild stat though

(29:59):
from me. Game forty two minutesfor Jason Tatum tonight, okay, plus
minus zero. Yeah, even thatmeans they were plus sixteen with him off
the floor. So get ready fora whole another round of the National talking
heads tomorrow, which is amazing too, considering what his plus minus was in
Game one, right he got dumpedon, Yes, plus twenty or whatever
it was. No, I canalready tell you any game they won by

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a handful. I can already tellyou the National talking head shows on Friday
morning is just gonna be oh JalenBrown made or is so good is Jalen
Brown's team? He bailed out JasonTatum getting along for the ride first,
Jallen Brown hits the three, notJason Tatum, to force overtime in Game
one. He was the hero.Never mind the Tatum having ten points in
the fourth quarter of overtime. Whocares about that? And now here in

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this one forty points, as yousaid, forty points fourteen of twenty seven,
four of ten from three, evenhit a few more free throws to
go eight of eleven, which byhis standards is actually a pretty respectable night,
only misses from the free throw linefor the entire team. But putting
that aside and Tatum, I meanhe got there eventually, incredibly so slow,
starting at four points four points atthe half, didn't hit a three

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with twenty three, yeah, andhe didn't hit a three point until the
fourth quarter, And he didn't hitthe three that I need him to hit,
needed to meet I was over twoand a half threes. Unfortunately he
landed at one of seven, andhe didn't get anywhere near the rebounds we
needed from him too, And Idid I didn't play it. I had
showed you. I put together withmy eleven year old. He's like,
I want to know about props.Teach me about you know, props,
And so I put him listen,there's I'm not sure there's a more valuable

(31:32):
lesson you could teach someone at ayoung age than responsible gambling. Actually,
sure, you know, as longas it's not like good spin zone.
Yeah, thank you. So Iwas on the the under. I gave
him like fifteen props. I justchose them at random. It wasn't all
things that I had bet somewhere,and one of them was under twenty nine
and a half four Tatum points andI went under, and I wish I'd

(31:52):
played it because he had twenty three, but my son was over. So
take that. Suffer a lost kid, pretty sure. We're both on the
over for total points though, whichdid hit two thirty six. I know
that was one for you, buth one twenty six one ten in the
final. And so as we lookahead two game three Celtics right now in
Indiana. Important distinction because at homethey were only eight and a half nine

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nine and a half point favorites thesefirst two games now in Indiana, sitting
right now at minus seven seven pointfavorites against the Pacers. The total has
middled between what it was in gameone and game two. We're looking at
two twenty three right now. Gameone was two twenty and a half.
That it's where we bet it.Anyway, I think it went up maybe

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a point, and then obviously thislatest game tonight was at two twenty four
and a half to twenty five anda half, so to twenty three,
and all of the very early moneyis on the over. No surprise there
because now in both cases games oneand two, you have cleared this number
with ease in regulation. I meanyou got two hundred and sixty plus points

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in in totality in game one,but just in regulation you cleared two thirty.
Tonight you cleared two thirty. Nowin Indiana two twenty three. Is
there any reason to believe this won'tgo over again? No? Well,
what is Halliburton's status? Great question, right, and it looks like he
was walking all right coming off.There was a tweet I will find it

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with you know, some semblance ofan injury update anyway, on on Tyree's
Halliburton. Adrian Woljhonarowski, just abouttwenty minutes ago departed with left hamstring soreness.
Sources tel ESPN he missed ten gameswith a left hamstring strain in January.
Okay, so that's a reaggravate reaggravation, correct, So I would anticipate.

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I don't think he's going to beoutright ruled out. I sort of
liken him to some degree to theDonovan Mitchell situation of the end of the
second round, where he's questionable,questionable, questionable. I was show that
he didn't play games four and five. We'll see what happens with Halliburton,
but I would fully expect him tobe listed as questionable and we'll just see

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if he's good to go in lessthan forty eight hours. I don't know,
he might not be. Yeah,So that's gonna be the thing,
Right, Do you jump on TJMcConnell's line right when it comes out if
they even post it, Because that'swhat I was doing with Evan Mobley in
the Cavaliers series with the Jared Alleninjury and how they just had him as
questionable every single night, where Iwould just take Mobley's and then eventually they

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would wait on the injury news andonce Allen was moved was ruled out,
they would bump it up a littlehigher there too, and I think a
lot of people were doing that withDarius Garland towards the end of the series
as well. But we'll see onlyCeltics player props are up right now.
I can give you a few ofthose. Jason Tatum twenty eight and a
half points, Jalen Brown twenty fiveand a half, Derek White once again
at fifteen and a half, DrewHoliday fourteen and a half, and Al

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at ten and a half. SoI had mentioned this one before. Now
we are seeing Drew Holiday over fiveand a half assists, So it's four
and a half to five and ahalf, but plus money on FanDuel,
that's plus one oh eight and hehas exceeded this number comfortably each of the
first two games of the series.Pace obviously has a lot to do with
it the amount of points Celtics havebeen putting up. You know, we

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saw one twenty six tonight, asnoted, we saw one thirty three in
the overtime game. But this isnow eighteen assists in two games, and
you can go over five and ahalf at plus money, Dan Hm,
I mean, I'm tempted to betthat right now, That is definitely tempting.
And then the other one too,Derek White three pointers over two and
a half only at minus one thirty. That's not terrible juice there, No,

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no, it is not for aguy who had four tonight and had
a couple at the end of gameone as well. Just looking to see
what else is out there. Asfar as what about combos. What's Al
Horford's pra? I see nineteen anda half on Horford's pra tonight he went
for sixteen, no assists, heonly get six points. He didn't shoot
the ball much. He had theten rebounds. Still, that is attempting

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because I expect to see a littlebit more offense out of Horford. I
thought we were going to see ittonight. We didn't. Yeah, yeah,
I mean he was right there.He got a lot of rebounds though,
didn't he I don't have the boxscore for ten. Yeah he was.
He had ten boards. Yeah,he was the rebound leader in this
one. He stole the Tatum betfrom me. Yeah, it's definitely interesting.
He was the only one. Nobodyhad more than five rebounds, albeit

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a collection of them, but noone had more than five rebounds on the
pacers side. Wow. So ifyou played the under on any of those
big rebounds, you know, beit Siakam or Turner or you know what
I mean, those two for sureyou went under. I don't know about
some of the other guys, butas far as yeah, I mean,

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I played Tatum game leader and reboundsand it was a plus one thirty also,
and the only guy in front ofhim was Al Horford, Big,
Al ageless Al Horford. And intwenty five minutes also, Tatum played forty
two minutes at six rebounds. Horfordhad ten and twenty five. But I'm
glad that I mentioned that I waseven looking at those minutes. That's perfect.

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That is exactly what you want outof Al Horford twenty five minutes.
Oh yeah, definitely exactly what youwant. And that's with Cornett mostly unavailable,
I thought we'd get some run outof Tillman tonight. He only played
three minutes. The ultimately the differencewas they went small. So you saw
Brissett for twelve minutes, you sawHowser for twenty two minutes. Old Sam

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Hawser Howser in twenty two minutes andstill went under three and a half points.
Unbelievable, that's unreal. Yeah,one to five shooting the ball,
oh for four from three, that'scrazy. Hmm. All right, well,
let's step aside. We gotta comeback. Bank row repairs four tomorrow.

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Now back to the Gambler with AdamKauffman on six't eighty WRKO, streaming
live on the iHeartRadio app, ortell your smart speaker to play WRKO on
iHeartRadio. It's time for your bankrollrepair, Howard by Today's okay, bank
roll repairs for tomorrow. And asthings stand right now, one has unfortunately

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lost. That was Dan's. JasonTatum did not help us out. We
needed eight rebounds. He got six. The other two legs did their job,
but we needed all three for me. We are trending in the right
direction. We already have wins bythe Celtics and the Phillies. Now we
need the Phoenix Mercury, who areup at the half by just three.
Need them on the money line.That would cash a big plus one fifty

(38:29):
seven for us, which would mitigatesome of today's damage. I'm tired of
talking about damage, Dan. Yeah, this is where I mean, we
really needed that plus one ninety Yeah, that would have been nice. That
would have been nice. I wouldhave gladly been the jerk tonight if that
was the case. So let's giveout bank roller pairs for tomorrow. What
do you have? All right,I'm gonna run it right back from last

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night. We're gonna do the samesame game parlay for game two in the
Mavericks Timberwolve series as we did ingame one. Nas Reed seven plus points,
Luka Doncic seven plus a cent,Kyrie Irving three plus assists, and
PJ Washington four plus rebounds plus oneto eleven on Fandel beautiful. I think
I have given out this combo before. I am not certain, but it

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is the Orioles and the Dodgers onthe money line. The two of them
together you can get that looks likebest on DraftKings at plus one twenty five,
like those pitching matchups right there.And so that is the direction that
I am going with My bank willrepair again. The Dodgers and the Orioles
on the money line together, wegot a lot coming your way. Nick
Whalen from Rhoda Wire is going tojoin us when we return and talk through

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the NBA with him. We alsohave of course some NHL talk with Patrick
Gates of odds breakers. A littlebit later on in the next hour,
people's parlay to come as well.So hang with us. We will be
right back. It is The Gamblerwith Adam Kaufman WRKO. Now WRKO presents
Boston's only nightly sports betting show,The Gambler with Adam Kaufman covering spreads,

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props, parlays and more. TheGambler starts now here's Adam Kaufman. It's
our number two of The Gambler withAdam Kaufman and Dan. I bet the
seven. I bet the seven Celticspast seven in Game three? I did
did you take the over? Nottotal? Not yet? Probably will spray

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where it was tonight. I meanhow much does Halliburton impact the total?
I would think considerably. I meanmcconnald's been really good too. I think
he can step right in and they'renot going to miss too much of a
beat. No, but you losedepth, right you know who backs up
McConnell at that level? Obviously,I mean, nobody is pretty much the

(40:44):
answer fair. But he's young,He's capable of going a lot of minutes.
Saw the total that What was it? I said two twenty three flat
when I was looking at it.Now I'm seeing two twenty four and a
half. Yeah, that's what itwas tonight. So people are jumping down
at quick, right quick, andin a hurry. Obviously, Celtics up
two oh in the East Finals,and the Mavericks do the same thing tomorrow

(41:06):
against the Timberwolves. We will getthere and we will build out a people's
parlay as well. But let's talkmore about the green and this. Dare
I say comfortable win, comfortable leadin this series against the Pacers with Nick
Whalon from Roda Wire joins us here. Good friend of the program. Obviously
you can get him on Twitter atWhalon instead of the L it's a one

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the number one wha one e nNick? What's up? Bud going on?
Man? I appreciate you going throughthe usual dogg and pony show Twitter
handle, but great to be backon the show as always. Guys,
congrats on another Celtics win. Isee they are now minus eight thousand to

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win the series over at the DKSportsbook, which the implied probability calculator dot
com tells me ninety eight point sevento seven percent chance they're winning the series,
yeah, I said, I mean, unless there's a serious injury.
Heaven forbid. I've said from thevery beginning, Celtics in five or six,
and I have seen nothing in thisseries to change my mind about that.

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I mean, I might feel alittle bit better about the five at
this point, with the two zeroseries lead and Haliburton out. I guess
a sweep depending on the severity ofHalliburton's injury, A sweep asn't out of
the question. I still feel likethe Pacers are going to steal one more
than likely at home, though.How are you feeling about it? Well,
I can tell you right now thefavorite outcome, I guess one way

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to phrase it would be Boston infour. According to DraftKings minus one twenty
five. Celtics in five now isplus one seventy, So maybe not too
late to jump on that. Iwas a pretty firm Celtics and five guy
coming into the series, and youknow, I wondered, could they make
it three in a row where theysomehow dropped one of these first two games
in Boston? Obviously it was Gametwo against Miami and Cleveland. I think

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Indiana blew its chance in game oneto steal one right. I'm a pretty
big believer in the mental toll thatit takes when you really feel like you
had a game one right. Twicein the final what twenty seven seconds before
you know, the egregious Haliburton turnoverand then even more egregious out of bounds
turnover that led to the Jalen Brownthree. But I got to say,
guys, I assume you feel thesame way. Obviously, Boston has a

(43:14):
huge talent advantage here, even withoutKristaps Porzingetz. I've been pretty impressed with
the way that the Pacers have beenable to continually rally back. And you
look at the final score and yousay, okay, well they lost by
sixteen. Well for one, TyresAlburton went out of this game late,
as you mentioned, But how manytimes did it did Boston get that lead
up to twelve, thirteen, fourteen? And then you blink your eye two
minutes later, Pascal s Yakama wasraining in a couple of jumpers and there's

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Mike Breen saying it's back to six. We were saying it last night.
They don't go away. They area nusky, relentless, annoying team.
Very much so. And Nick wealso were kind of talking about this after
Game one, was that Indiana's bestpunch, like can they can they play
a better game than they did inGame one? And if they can't,
I mean, now with Haliburton possiblyout or limited, I don't know how

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they're going to be able to howto be able to keep up with the
Celtics. Yeah, I to answeryour question, I think that was their
best punch. I think almost bydefault, it has to be right.
I mean, are they going toshoot like that? You know, especially
in the first half where they wereclose to sixty percent. I think they
were hunning around fifty nine and ahalf percent in the first half, which
you know, you think back toGame seven against the Knicks. That's a
good six quarter run where you're basicallyshooting sixty two sixty three percent from the

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field on average, which is whichis crazy and really the only way that
Boston's been threatened at all in theseplayoffs so far has been those outlier shooting
Knights, Right, it's been youknow, the Miami Heat hitting twenty two
or twenty three threes, whatever itwas. It's been you know, Donovan
Mitchell going off in game two forthe Cabs. So I'm not saying that
the Pacers can't take one at home. Now, if Tyrus Alberton misses one

(44:43):
or both of those games, Ithink they're probably cooked. All due respect
to TJ McConnell, but you know, I think that's just, you know,
one too many blows for this Placer'steam to survive. But look,
I feel the same way. Thisteam beat my team a couple of weeks
ago. Right. It's funny aplayer series completely changes your opinion of all
these guys. Like I thought thePacers were a fun team. You know,

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Terry's Haliburt' a Wisconsin guy. Iwant to support him. When you
go head to head with a teamin a series, it's amazing. As
a fan, you come out ofit just hating everybody said. Between Nick
being on, we had James Whider, there is there a like a quota
for Wisconsin mentions on this show.It's when you get one, you get
them all. That's how it goes, apparently. So as you look ahead,

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then let's just say that Haliburton,he's going to be listed as questionable.
We know that, and let's justassume he plays, and that might
not be a safe assumption. Iassumed Donovan Mitchell was going to play games
four and five, and he didnot play either of them. But for
the sake of the line, becausethe line will move, the Celtics will
all of a sudden be you know, nine or ten point favorites. If
Haliburton gets ruled out right now,it's sitting at minus seven. Would you

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bet the Celtics to cover on theroad and take game three or do you
think the Pacers put up enough ofa fight even if they don't win,
that you would just like to getinside that number. I think I would
lean Pacers. If you're telling methat Tyres Alberton is playing and looks like
himself, but I think that's that'sthe second part of this, right is
you know, if he plays,is he going to be out one hundred
percent or is he trying to playthrough something that maybe he shouldn't play through

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becauses the playoffs and he ends up, you know, having a negative net
impact for that team. So tome, it entirely hinges on Tyres albert
I think he's part of the reasonthat they continue to put up these crazy
shooting performances on a nightly basis.I mean even a night like this where
this game was over with what seveneight minutes left in the fourth quarter,
Facer still shot fifty two percent fromthe field. And you know, part
of it is maybe you know,some anomalies when it comes to shooting,

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But they didn't have a crazy nightfor three, right, I mean eleven
of twenty nine. That's kind ofabout league average at this point. It's
Tyri's Aliburton setting these shots up.Right. There's a reason that they're getting
as many open looks as they are, and Tyres Alburn is the reason for
that. I mean, he hadhad ten assists in game one, but
I looked it up on NBA dotcom slash stats. He had twenty potential
assists, which is a crazy highnumber, right, and usually you convert

(46:57):
on about sixty percent of those.We should have had probably thirteen or four
fourteen assists if the Pacers had knockedout more shots. But you take that
away, it's like, yeah,TJ. McConnell, he's scrappy. He
could be fun to watch for someif you're into that. I am not,
but he's not Tyris Albert in termsof shock creation. And you take
him away you're kind of relying onanother game like this from Pascal Siakam,
where it felt like all thirteen ofhis makes We're just like, wow,

(47:17):
how did that go in? That'snot translatable game to game. So I'm
glad you just brought up Sacam becausethat's what I was going to ask you
about. He's had a great startto the series. Here twenty four points
and then twenty eight points tonight ingame two. The line sitting right there
at twenty and a half again,Nick, and it's close to even money
on FanDuel at minus one oh two. Do you think Siakam goes over this
for a third straight night or doesdoes he regress back to you know,

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somewhere in like the high teens.Well, I think if Albert's not out
there, I think that helps Seakham, right, I think that forces him
into you know, a true numberone role. And you know, I
think you could you could even arguethat he might be, you know,
their best creator outside of Albert.Right, you don't really think of Pascal
Siakam as as somebody who it kindof focused as a distributor in the half

(48:02):
court. But I don't know ifyou really trust Andrew Demhart. I know
he had five assists tonight, butI still don't really think of him as
that type of player. So Iwould lean over right now with the assumption
that Haliburton is either out or limited. But keep in mind Guysiakam got off
to a great start in the Milwaukeeseries when he had thirty six and thirty
seven points in the first two gamesof that series and then didn't reach twenty

(48:22):
the rest of the series. Actuallydidn't reach twenty again until Game three against
the Knicks. So there is abit of a pattern here of Siakam kind
of starting fast in these series andthen you know, defenses and coaching staffs
finding ways to adjust, and onpaper, I think that the Celtics have
the body to guard someone like Siaka, But from a pure volume perspective,
I would lean over as of rightnow looking at some of the props on

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the Celtics side, and Jaylen Brownin particular. We we were joking earlier
like, of all the things thatwe bet with this game and things that
we talked about betting with this game, it's amazing that we weren't on the
Jaylen Brown all NBA snub narrative andjust assumed that he would go off,
and he did right out of thegate, had forty points. All of
that. Now, the forty pointstonight, twenty six, which he needed

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over time, but twenty six ingame one. Now, the line for
Game three is at twenty five anda half. Now, you could look
at that and say, well,they went over the first two games,
I'm gonna go over again. Butwatching Jalen Brown as much as we do
here in Boston, there's a partof me that says, man, it
would be sweaty. Don't get mewrong, but I'm inclined to lean under
and think that this might be moreof a Jason Tatum game. Even if

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Brown finishes with twenty four and he'sright there, I'm just not so sure
he gets to twenty six plus.Yeah, I think that's fair. I
think that's fair. And you know, part of the hesitation for me would
be just the fact that Boston hasso many options, right, That's that's
what separates them at this point fromthese other teams in the Eastern Conference,

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even teams that were still alive inRound two is you know, teams like
the Pacers, teams like the Knicks, you know, with their right tag
crew. After all the injuries,the Cavs like, there's there's always one
or two guys, you know,even the Bucks felt this. I think
at Round one there's one or twoguys on the court at all times that
you didn't really have to worry allthat much about. And the Celtics are
the complete opposite of that, right, I mean they went away from the
Al Horford grade offense tonight, whichwas probably a good thing. I don't

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think you need him taking double digitthree pointers in a playoff game at this
point in his career. But youknow, if you're into ye're saying,
Okay, we can't let Jalen Brownbeat us. Okay, if you want
to focus on slowing down Jalen Brownin Game three, well, that's going
to open up other things, right. That's going to open up lanes for
True Holliday, It's going to openup things for Derek White. It's going
to open things up even more forJason Tatum. So I would lean under
on this. I mean, JalenBrown has not had three twenty five plus

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point games in a row. Yougot to go all the way back to
like early March. He hasn't doneit at all. In the postseason.
So I think the law of averages, you know that, the fact that
it feels like Jason Tatum my defaulthas to heat up at some point,
some point, the three point shootinghas to come around. And then there's
also the possibility, guys, ofa blowout here, right, I think
I think we have to consider thatas a real possibility, especially if Haliburton

(50:50):
doesn't play. Yeah, Nick,And I think that leads me to another
potential play here for this one onSaturday night. That's the Celtics team total
one fifteen and a half or onesix team and a half at even money,
depending on where you're looking. Sevenor they've played seven times this season,
and the Celtics have smashed the overon this in six of them,
multiple games in the one thirties,including the overtime the other night. But

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how do they I don't know howIndiana stops the Celtics unless the Celtics just
shoot themselves out of the game.Yeah, And I just don't see that
happening, right. That goes backto what we were just talking about.
As far as you know, they'rethey're one of the few teams in the
NBA and really in recent NBA historythat you could survive you know, one
or you know one or even twoof your four best players having it off

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night because you have through outdates,you have Derrek White sitting there. Right,
It's like, even if Jalen Browncomes out and you know, shoots
five of twenty two from the field, well, champions are those other three
guys including Tatum are going to pickthem up? And you know, it's
interesting. We've seen totals and teamtotals of course, fall like crazy throughout
the playoffs, especially relative to wherethey were even at the end of the
regular season and if you want togo back to like good season, but

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the Pacers are the one team that'skind of avoided that, right, I
mean they're still you know, routeemly, you're posting totals in the two twenties
and even the low two thirties.Like they're the one team that doesn't really
seem to be affected in terms oftheir pace and in terms of you know,
the refereeing changes that we saw towardthe end of the regular season.
So I would lean over I thinkthat's a good look on the Celtics team
total. And the other thing is, even if that does devolve into a

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blowout one that means you're probably scoringa lot of points through the first two
or three quarters, and even theyou know that the benchwarmer unit, the
scrub unit, if you will,that that finishes these games for the Celtics.
Like these are real dudes, right, Like you got Peyton Pritchard out
there, you got Sam Hauser,you know, taking wide open threes.
Like it's not like you put thoseguys in and you know, you just
put up twelve points in the fourthquarter. Like, even if you think
this is a blowout, I thinkthe Celtics are so deep that they can

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still put up points late in thegame. Like that, guys says,
we're talking. I'm sitting here,I'm looking at some of the props in
this game tomorrow night, the Timberwolvesand the Mavericks Game two on the way
Dallas stole Game one in Minnesota,and I'm falling in love with some I'm
eager for us to build out thispeople's parlay to talk about this game and
expectations for Game two, whether ornot the Timberwolves can even it up.

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We will do that with Nick Whalenwhen we come back here on the Gambler
with Adam Kauffman live lines, locksand long shots. Now back to Boston's
only nightly betting show, The Gamblerwith Adam Kaufman on six point eighty WRKO,
streaming live on the iHeartRadio app,or tell your smart speaker to play

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WRKO on iHeartRadio. We're back herewith Rona Wires Nick Whalen, looking ahead
to well, a lot of differentthings, but in particular right now Game
two between the Timberwolves and the Maverickstomorrow night, Western Conference Finals. As
by the way, the Oilers andStars are early in overtime in Game one

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of their Western Conference Final on theice. We'll talk more about that with
Patrick Gates of Gator Betting and oddsbreakers, all of it. He will
join us in a little bit.We'll give you people's parlay here with Whalon
as well, looking forward to thatfinal. Out everyone's favorite plays for tomorrow,
be it on the hardwood or elsewhere. There are no you know,
no one's putting a boxing on haveto bet basketball. If you like something

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better elsewhere, that's fine. Thereare a lot of props I like in
this game, Nick, but let'sstart with just the lines. You know,
we're sitting here again, as mentionedthe Timberwolves, we were as a
show on the Timberwolves to cover theminus four four and a half. Whatever
it was yesterday didn't happen. Maverickstole late, Luca went, Luca went

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nuclear. Kyrie was incredible in thatgame as well. Here for Game two,
we have a similar line posted inMinnesota, albeit a little bit more
to the Timberwolves side minus five anda half, which has the line share
the handle. The money is morefifty to fifty. The total people are
very much on the over two ohseven and a half. How do you

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see the side in total in thisgame? Yeah, I mean maybe a
little bit surprising that Minnesota gets abump here after of course dropping game one
last night, But it was itkind of a strange game from Minnesota's perspective,
right, It was not the WesternConference Finals coming out party that a
lot of people thought it might be. For Anthony Edwards, who I thought
was pressing a little bit early on, looked a little bit lost and had

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to expend a lot more energy defensivelythan anyone expected. And I think Anthony
Edwards himself expected. And you know, Minnesota, you don't think of this
team as this high volume three pointshooting outfit. They took forty nine three
last night. I mean, thatis a franchise record in any playoff game,
and this is not a franchise thathad a story playoff history. But
nonetheless, I mean they shattered theprevious record. They kind of felt like

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Dallas knocked them off their spot,right, And again, you don't think
of Dallas as a great defensive team, but they were. They really developed
into one after the All Star break, once everybody got healthy, once they
got Derek Lively back. In themixed final twenty games of the regular season,
they were the best defensive team bydefensive rating in the NBA, and
I thought they gave Minnesota a lotof problems. I still think the Wolves
are the better team. I'm alsowary of, you know, are we

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overvaluing them a little bit because theyspecifically beat Denver and everybody had Denver the
best team in the West. Youknow, there's kind of this narrative that,
all right, you slayed the dragonin round two, Now it should
be easier from here on out.But when you're going up against Lukadatcic and
Kyrie Irming, it's not going tobe easy, and especially this version of
Kyrie. Right the Thunder essentially decidedwe're going to take him out. We're
going to just double him, We'regoing to force the ball out of his

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hands. And it works as faras limiting Kyrie on offense, but it
didn't work as far as the resultof the series goes. So I'll be
interested to see this Minnesota change uptheir cover John Kyrie. Did they try
to take a page out of theOKC book? But I'm on the map
here, guy that I think thisteam believes they are better than the Timberwolves.
I think they played better, certainlyin Game one, and it's not

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like Dallas had some sort of anomalyperformance here. There were six of twenty
five from beyond the arc. Ithink that's a little concerning if you're Minnesota.
I don't care how many threes youtook, you hit eighteen, you
outscored Dallas eighteen to six from beyondthe arc, and you still lost this
game at home. Nick, Avery popular prop that I saw leading into
Game one of this series was RudyGobert to go over his rebounds at twelve
and a half, gets nowhere close. He gets to just throwout half that

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half that way at seven rebounds.Here, Colbert's prop tomorrow night is once
again at twelve and a half.I think Rudy figures it out and gets
in snatches up some more boards.Or is it another underplay here. I
think it's an underplay, guys.I mean, Gobert at the end of
the regular season, especially, youknow, is starting to kind of remind
us of Utah Gobert, especially inthe fantasy world. You know, we're

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always keeping an eye and it ishis rebounding in blocks numbers. I mean,
he was averaging, you know,well over fourteen rebounds per game over
the final twenty or so games ofthe regular season, and that volume is
down in the playoffs. I meanfor the postseason, he's only averaging ten
point three rebounds per game. Likethe explosive rebound games have still been there
every now and then, but thereality is he's only gone over this number

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five times in twelve games. SoI think it's a stay away from me
or it's an under Any props thatare jumping, I can throw some some
of the ones that you that I'vebeen looking at, but anything been jumping
out at you here early on,Yeah, I have one that I'll save
for the people's parlays, so we'lltable that one for now. But I'm
looking at the Dallas role players,right, And that was one of the
big stories coming out of Round twoagainst OKC, was all right, Kyrie

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Irving average like fourteen points a gamefor the series and they still want it
in six. Well, you gotan all time series out of PJ.
Washington, you got incredible minutes outof Derrick Jones, who they basically picked
up for free. Any team couldhave had him on the veterans minimum.
So I'm looking at PJ. Washingtonover eleven and a half point. That's
under the assumption that the Timberwolves makemore of an effort to try to get
the ball out of Kyrie's hands.Could be a higher volume night for PJ.

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Washington tomorrow. Obviously went over thatnumber four times in the OKC series,
and I think it's discount is thepoint where I like that a lot
at minus one fifteen and Derek Jonesyou can get his points prop at eight
and a half. Obviously, he'snot a high volume offensive player. You
know, you kind of need himto knock down a couple of those wide
open quarter threes that he tends toget, but he's going to play huge

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minutes for them in this series.They absolutely need Derek Jones. They need
him to be their discount version ofJade McDaniels. And I think if he's
out there for thirty five to fortyminutes, there's a pretty good chance he
finds his into at least five points. I'm glad you brought up PJ.
Washington because this is one of theones that I just keep looking at.
They're a handful of props I reallylike in this game, and one of
them is Washington over five and ahalf rebounds. Now, he had seven

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last time out, and you know, in general here in the playoffs,
he hasn't cleared it every game,but more often than not, a matter
of fact, in the Thunder serieshe had six plus in every game other
than the game six when he hadfive. Previous round against the Clippers less
or so, but you know,he's now the what six out of seven

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games that he's had at least sixrebounds, and you know, I think
opportunity is as big as anything.He played forty one minutes in this latest
game, which you know, youtalk about his points obviously the opportunity is
going to be there. He shotthe ball ten times in Game one.
But when I see the boards andI know there's size on that other side
from Minnesota, but asking him toget six rebounds doesn't feel like a lot.

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I agree, And you know,history taught me the hard way at
that when when it prop stands outlike that to me and I'm like,
good, this is I can guarantee. How could he not that? Usually
that there's you know, cause forconcern. But I'm with you, man,
I think, you know, muchlike Derrick Jones. You know,
it could sound like lazy at aases, but minutes are are everything in the
prop betting game, and I thinkPJ. Washington ideally is still playing forty

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if not more minutes as we saw, you know, in game one forty
one minutes. We played forty plusthree times in Round two against OKC.
The one thing that maybe would concernme is if you think, I mean
Minnesota missed what I mean, Ihad thirty plus three pointers in this game.
R I mean they missed thirty onethree. It's like there were a
ton of available rebounds. That's partof the reason that Dallas, you know,
ended up with a plus eight onthe on the glass, you know,
plus seven on the defensive glass.If you think Minnesota shoots the ball

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better, you know, maybe that'ssomewhat of a concern. And I do
think Dallas is going to play plentyof Daniel Gafford. I think we're going
to see even more of Derek Wivelyin Game two going up against Gobert and
Towns. You know, there willbe some lineups in which PJ. Washington's
not in prime rebounding position. Butlike you said, he's gone over this
in six of seven, and Ithink that that number is low enough that
I'm with you on the over So, guys, we haven't talked about Anthony

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Edwards yet. I mean, he'sthe new face of the NBA. If
you ask, you know anybody inthe national circles. Stupid twenty seven and
a half points is his prop nickfor this one tomorrow night. He is
under this in four straight, obviouslysaved by the hook in one of those,
and he's under this in six outof the last seven. Does he
just is it bombs away for himtomorrow night? Does he just keep shooting

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until he finally gets over this number? What's to play with Edwards. It's
been really puzzling, right, Imean, I was all over the Edwards
points drops, which at the time, I think we're twenty eight, twenty
nine and a half at the endof the Denver series, and you know,
the thought is, you know,even if Minnesota loses Game six or
loses Game seven, like he's gonnago down swing it, right, I
mean, and that's that's kind ofthis this pseudo reputation that Anthony Edwards has

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been given seemingly by but just everybody, despite in my beinon not necessarily earning
it, love Anthony Edwards, butI just I can't really remember a situation
where everybody has been so eager toaround someone who really has not accomplished anything
at this point in his career.I think it's a stay away for me,
honestly. I mean, he's hadopportunities. You know, if it
wasn't Game six Againstever, we thoughtit would be game seven, If it
wasn't those two, how is itnot game one of this series? You're

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returning home, the crowd is goingcrazy. This is your chance to take
a one zero lead and really putyourself in the driver's seat for a finals
Berth. And you know, notonly did he not have a great shooting
night, but he only took sixteenshots. Twelve of those came from beyond
the arc. Like I did notlove the shot selection. I think some
of the credit goes to Dallas onthe defensive end, but Edwards was just
not getting easy looks. He wasnot getting a lot of those easy looks
that were there early in the Denverseries and certainly throughout the entire Phoenix series.

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So I think it's an under ormore so a stay away for me.
I'm I'm cognitanve that that game iscoming at some point, but it
feels like we've already missed a fewtimes. I'm trying to time the market.
All right, let's get into thePeople's Parlay here. There are many
more props I'd like to ask youabout. We just don't have the time
to do it, unfortunately, SoNick Whalen here with us, and I
got I think my browser or myspreadsheet may have closed. I want to

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throw some stats at whalan let himknow how he is done with official picks
for us and People's Parlay and allof that. May have to dig it
up. Still, really well,he was up towards the top. I
believe he was. Yeah, Ithink he's I'm going to have it.
Give me one second, just windowsreopening here, this technology here, Dan,
So all right for whalan? BecauseI went back, I did all

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the math, looked at the history. You have been part of eight People's
parlays, my friend. I don'tknow if you realize that, but you
have. This will be number ninetonight, and as far as success goes,
you're just about as good as theycome. You are four and four
with us on the People's Parlay,which I mean that is an insane ROI
obviously your individual plays are three fourand one. You had one voided play

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there, but you have been partof four successful People's parlays, and so
pressures on to try and go abovefive hundred. What is your favorite play
for tomorrow? All right, well, I appreciate the advanced stats on the
Gambler. I beg. I guesswhatever I hit, the entire parlay hits,
so you know, lect the individualrecord to be a little bit better.
But we're going back to the propmarket and we're going with Derek Lively.

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We're taking the over on eight anda half rebounds plus assists for Derek
Lively at plus one fourteen at theDK Sportsbook. He of course went well
over this in game one. Hewent well over this in three of the
final four games against OKC, andyou know, obviously this is one where
he could go over it and reboundsalone. That's part of the reason that

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I like it. But he's alsohas multiple assists and three of his last
four games. He's not a greatpasser, but he's not somebody where you're
just kin to tack him out inthe assist and praying that he gets one.
I mean, he could have twothree assists. It's about a hotson
whiteside situation. So I really likeDerek Lively. He was plus fifteen in
game one. I think we seemore of him in game two. That's
where we're going. Dan, allright, I'm going to go with another
Dallas big guy, and I'm gonnago Daniel Gafford over seven and a half

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points. We're gonna lay a bitof juice here. At minus one thirty
or minus one twenty eight was whenI got it. For good reason.
He's got eight or more points innine straight games and ten out of the
last eleven. We just need himto hit a couple layups and we'll get
this. So let's go over sevenand a half for Gafford. Guys,
I just want to mention, becauseI'm not really gonna have another window to
do it. I want to mentionthere are looks like six props that I

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really like in this game. I'mgonna play them all. They will not
all be show official, obviously,but I am going to play them all,
and I'm just gonna tell you whatthey are. We don't have time
to discuss them, but I wantto make you aware in case you want
to play them too. Those areand this was my backup, my real
consideration for the people's parlay. NazReid over ten and a half points.
Love that play, Love that play. Mike Conley, There's a lot of

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juice here, but under six anda half assists, Rudy Gobert under twelve
and a half points probably be sweaty, but I like to play Jaden McDaniels.
This was a close one too.Over twelve and a half points.
He's gone for twenty plus and threestraight games. And Kyrie Irving, I
don't know what it is. He'seither cold from three, not taking too
many ten sor they're just not puttingthem out there to do that. Only

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three tries last game went over undertwo and a half three pointers for Kyrie
Irving. That's around minus one forty. That's not bad. But I'm going
to go with the Washington play.PJ. Washington over five and a half
rebounds. Don't need to give youthe reasoning. We have already talked about
it as things stand right now,Nick and Dan. Dan has been crunching

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the numbers. He knows this already. At the moment. This will change,
but at the moment we are exclusiveto ESPN as far as the book
plus five forty two is the parlay. That is where we stand now.
I have to imagine it. Reallyit's Dan, correct me if I'm wrong.
It's Nicks play that is giving usa problem right now at the moment.
Yes, the rebounds and assists forLively is not posted everywhere, and

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DraftKings does not let yous SGP reboundsand assists. Interesting. Okay, so
you know, if you want to, if you think you can maybe do
better than five forty two, ormaybe you just don't have ESPN Dan uses
that book. I actually don't.I'm just gonna have to wait. You
have to wait and see if youknow fan Duel or Caesars or somewhere else,
you know, we can put allthese together. But Nick, that's

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what we've got. That is ourpeople's parlay. Let's see if we can
hit this one again. Let's doit, boys. I feel good about
it, all right, Nick Whalenfrom Road to Wire. Check them out
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enough to remember. You've heard mesay it a thousand times before. When
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the Gambler with Adam Kauffman on wRKO. All right, we've got a
few minutes now, quite as longas I wanted, But we also don't
have a game to recap. Wehave a game to look ahead to and
a game two. Perhaps give youa live betting opportunity, but not great
for the podcast people. We justsaid this game might not end until three

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in the morning. Boilers Stars twoto two, Game eight and a half
to go in overtime, Game oneof the Western Conference Final. Let's talk
about the Stanley Cup playoffs with PatrickGates at Gator Betting on Twitter. A
lot of puck talk there, betsthe horses as well. I have to
have him on maybe in a littlebit look ahead to what do we got

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the Belmont steak still in front ofus? Yes, sir, and since
Saratoga this year, that's right,that could be fun. Do that a
couple of weeks. But again atGator Betting, he's from Odds Breakers.
Patrick. How are you, Bud? Great? How are you? Thanks
for having me on? Absolutely sowell? What was your read on this
series and this game coming in andobviously how you're feeling about it now?

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Yeah, certainly little to say thelease. I was looking forward to coming
on and kind of recapping game oneof this Edmonton Dallas series, but it
looks like we're going to have towait a few minutes or maybe even hours
at this rate to let that onefinish up. Yeah, I think tonight
I was seeing how Stuart's getting everthinga hold up in this series. There's
question marks with him heading into thisseries given kind of how it was played,

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but he's looked terrific tonight. Ihave to give him credit here.
I wasn't sure kind of how he'drebound after game six and seven, of
kind of coming back after the cardgot the start in game five there,
but credit to him here on ingerslook competent and that for Dallas. Edmonton's
biggest thing I think is just canthey continue to get deaf scoring? And
while they really have it tonight,the big players have showed up. You

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got Jack Hyman on the board drivetitle grabbed another one in Dallas too.
I think they're just a little bitdeeper and Tyler Segan's just been terrific.
Tonight's got two for them, Andif you're looking at a live betting opportunities,
already had a few chances in overtime, I don't see why you wouldn't
bet him to kind of finish offthat hat trick. So what were you
on the total on this one tonight? Patrick? It was down to six,
which always with an Edmonton game,it's just like you're gonna give me

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a six? Like, I feellike I got it taken over there.
But once again, we're seeing aswe get later in the playoffs, these
under unders are becoming far more common. Yeah, So, unfortunately for me
tonight, I was on this overhere, just given Edmonston's goaltending for sure,
with Skinner's issues and then even orehe exited practice today with an illness,

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so I wasn't sure if he wasto be one hundred percent as well.
Rupe Hints was out for ed Dallas, excuse me, So their lines
were shuffled a little bit, butif you kind of look at how they
played during their regular season, theywere able to kind of plug and play,
especially in this top three line.So I was on the over.
Obviously that's not going to kiss cash, but yeah, it's it's going to
be interesting, especially to see howthis series goes. Otingres struggled in Game

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one so far this postseason, soI'm expecting him to be better in Game
two, even though he's been fairlydecent tonight. I don't know how much
you dive into series betting, butyou know, especially obviously there's before the
series, but then within the series, is there what would have to happen
tonight to impact the way you wouldbet this thing going forward? Or do

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you think you would just stay prettyfirm in your convictions. Yeah, I
think it's pretty firm a conviction here. Skinner's play has shocked me. I
think that's kind of the entire outlierof this series. So I think it's
kind of staying on that path.Whoever wins tonight, I'll probably fade in
Game two here. Well, Edmontonhasn't been great on the road. If
they do drop one a OT despitebeing up to nothing in this game,

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I think I'm going to back themat game two, and then again,
if Edmonston does end up pulling thisone out, I'll probably look at Dallas
here in game two. So wegot a Game two in the Eastern Conference
tomorrow night, Florida trying to goup to to h As the Rangers found
out in Game one, just howannoying it is to play the Florida Panthers.
Everybody here in Boston is aware ofthat. After the past two seasons

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and how it's come to an end. But do you like the Rangers to
bounce back on home ice tomorrow nightor does Florida keep rolling. Florida is
one of those teams too where it'sinteresting. They're a tough team to kind
of bet for or against, asodd as that sounds too, I mean,
they play such a great style ofhockey where they kind of cater their
play, especially in the Neutrals loanto their opponent. Here. They did

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a great job in Game one ofone limiting power play opportunities for the Rangers.
Here. The Rangers have been terrificon the power play this postseason,
and Florida has been pretty undisciplined interms of their play, but they only
allowed to power play opportunities and shutboth those down. I think Florida roles
in Game two here. I thinkwe start to see things get interesting,
especially in Game three if Florida doesgo up to nothing. But I kind

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of like Florida here in game two. I know that money line has moved.
They were a slight dog in Gametwo, but I think they're now
the favorite, maybe around minus onetwelve, minus one fifteen on some books.
Feeling on the total for this gameafter we got obviously a low scoring
opener. Yeah, I think it'sgoing to kind of stay low scoring.

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Florida really kind of wants to playthat style of hockey, and I think
they can. They have all threeof those lines, their top three lines
going, and their defense does playit does do a great job of kind
of shutting down in front of thenet, which the majority of the Rangers
scoring chances have come front. SoI would lean under in Game two.
But that's kind of just what I'mfeeling here. Any of the player props

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jump out at you. I mean, if the Bobrovski number on the under
is interesting, just because Florida isjust doing such a great job of limiting
shots that he's just not seeing thatmany. Yeah, it's a tough especially
with safe too, because Florida doeshave those odd games that we've seen in
this postseason so far where they dogive up kind of that thirty plus range

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in terms of shots. One interestingprop here, which is live right now,
with Carter Rahige for the most goalsin the series, you can get
that at plus three thirty. Hescored in the first game of the series
and was tied with Sam Bennett forthe most shots on goal with five.
He has a pretty great history againstthe Ranger as well, scoring in five
as last ten matchups against them.He leads the rate there the Panthers and
goals this postseason with seven, andhe's all aligned with two playmakers, with

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Kachuk already having eleven assists this postseasonleading the Panthers, and Anton wentdel with
seven assists as well, which isthird on the team. I'm just looking
at Stanley Cup odds and naturally everythingis really tightened since we're down to the
final four. In fact, you'rewithin plus three hundred for three of them.
The Panthers are the favorites where I'mlooking anyway on FanDuel of plus one

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sixty. Then you have the Starsand Oilers comparable and the Rangers, if
you do respect them, it's agreat opportunity to jump on at plus six
hundred. Have have you bet anythingin terms of Cup futures or con Smith
for instance? Yeah, so Ido have a future on the Stars.
I grab that earlier this season,I want to say, a few months
ago at nine to one here,just given kind of their deaths. So

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that's kind of what I'm holding onto as of now in terms of the
cons MI a bit interesting. WhileFlorida, I believe we'll kind of pull
out this series here. You havea few options with your CARDI Verrahigey's your
Matthew could chook. Even Verbrovski Ithinks live in that market as well,
So that's another interesting play if youare going to kind of look to bet

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Florida as a future I mean plusone p fifty right now for the winner.
So I think you can kind ofget better odds on the cons Mike
and almost back Florida to win theCup in that fashion. Patrick Gates from
Odds Breakers. You can get himon Twitter at Gator Bedding. Look forward
to having you back on more puckTalk, maybe even some golfer horses as
well, areas that you specialize inthe days and weeks to come. We

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appreciate you hopping on man, Thanksso much for having me. Absolutely when
we come back, we'll put thisshow to bed. Now. I'm backing
in Gambler with Adam Kaufman on sixpoint eighty WRKO streaming live on the iHeartRadio
app, or tell your smart speakerto play WRKO on iHeartRadio. Now it's
time to put these show with MikePillow. Thanks to all of our great

(01:16:08):
guests tonight posts recently Patrick Gates ofthe Odds Breakers, of course, Nick
Waylon Roote a Wire and three timesSuper Bowl champion Sweet Beat. James White,
Long of the Patriots joined us earlier. Feels like a memory at distant
memory at this point with all theCeltics and NBA talk in this show,
but we had a great time chattingfor ten fifteen minutes with James White if

(01:16:29):
you missed any of that, hisimpressions of not only the Celtics or his
beloved Panthers, but obviously Drake Mayand the new regime in Foxborough and OTAs
and a little bit behind the scenesstuff. Some good insights there, what
the media sees and doesn't see.Check out the podcast The Gambler with Adam
Kaufman wherever you get your podcasts.This being the last show of our work

(01:16:50):
week, and not only that,we have a holiday weekend upon us,
so hope everybody has a great MemorialDay break. You know, don't work
at all if you can avoid it, but certainly don't work too hard,
enjoy some quality time. Good weather, family, friends, barbecues, whatever
you do, win some bets,all of that good stuff. We will
not be with you on Monday becauseof the holiday. So back at it

(01:17:11):
on Tuesday, and at that pointin time, I mean maybe talking about
a series sweep for the SOUF.I'm just gonna say that's entirely possible.
Could already be in the NBA Finalsby the next time we're on, Yeah,
or at least be in the process, right because Game three is Saturday,
and then we'll be on Tuesday.Wasn't game four Monday night? Is
that what it is? Monday,Saturday, Monday. Yeah. I don't

(01:17:33):
know where I was going with thethe you know, days of the week
right in my head. Now thatworks. Should probably have my six year
old work on that with me.So yeah, by gambling, he'll show
you with the calendar perfect. Yeah, it'd be great. Yeah, give
and take, you know, learnsomething new every day. So Dad,
this is called Wednesday. Yeah,someday it comes after Tuesday, before Thursday.

(01:17:56):
That's how I guess what day itis. Mike, Mike Wi my
mother, Mike. I can't believethe oiler Scars game is still going.
I hope it goes all night,give me something to watch when I get
home. So it's been a funweek. Dan obviously show betting a mixed
bag, and as has been theentire month, it has and yet we're
just barely down because of some gooddays, but way more red and tonight.

(01:18:17):
You know, we're trending in thein the direction of losing about a
unit and a half, which isnot terrible. But I'm just tired of
being down. I'd like to celebratea day in the green here for this
show. And we're due. We'redue maybe Whalen, maybe four and four.
Nick Whalen on the People's Parlay canget us back tomorrow as we back
three Dallas big men. We needit in this contest against the Timberwolves.

(01:18:40):
All right, Well, thanks toDan. Hopefully Brian enjoys his break.
I am Adam again. Check outthe podcast We will talk to you again
on Tuesday. For the best night'ssleep you've ever had, go to Micfillow
dot com and use the code Gambler. You've been listening to The Gambler with
Adam Kaufman on six point eighty WRKO, Boston's first and only nightly sports betting

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(01:19:26):
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