A brief background on me...

First, some quick background...

I have been handicapping professional sports for more than 25 years and the NBA is my specialty...Most of my posts will be geared towards the NBA as I have taken the last 3 years off handicapping the NHL and MLB as I have started working at the place I co-founded...I still davel in the NFL so I will share some thoughts there, but the NBA is where it is at for me for the most part these days...I have been posting on sports gambling forums since 2003 and have developed a good reputation as a handicapper, especially in the NBA...

I started posting at one of the biggest handicapping forums in the world to start this NBA season and went 3-1 on my bets, 12-6 on my #1 picks and 59-47-1 on all of my picks during the Preseason...

I got off to a very slow start in the regular season, especially with my totals as I was down about 5 units when I stopped posting at therx and a very bad start with my totals was the reason as I was 3-5 with my bets...My Sides picks were 11-6 and my totals picks were 7-12 when I stopped posting on 11/9 as I had to go to the ER for multiple spider bites on my head at that time, so I took a break from posting...

A friend of mine, who is now in Arizona wanted to start a website as I was recovering from the spider bites, so we do have a site under construction at www.sportsgambling.cc...  So I am working on the site and will post a little bit on the forum created there, but my daily thoughts will be on this blog...

But after recovering from the spider bites, my picks were very mediocre at best for several weeks and my bets were about breakeven...But finally, about 6 days ago, things are starting to click again as I have been on a tear with my totals (with almost all of my picks being Unders) and my sides have been good, too, and I have been playing a lot more game lines the past week...

Since starting at Le Academe, I haven't had anywhere near as much free time as I used to, so due to lack of time to handicap games the way I used to, I have transformed myself into a 2nd-half specialist...I also have been betting a lot of 1Qs, 1Hs and 3Qs the last 2 years...Last season, 90 to 95% of my bets were 2H or 1Q bets...This season, I have been mixing it up fairly well, and I hope the winning I have experienced the last 6 days carries over for a while...