This is Veson by the books on Vison, the Sports Betting Network.

Our thanks, as always to the maestro, Mike Palm, for joining us in our previous segment,

a fabulous palms pressing three to get us primed for what is ahead

here, not only for the NBA, two more games tomorrow to decide the final two spots in the NBA

playoffs as a whole.

And one that will be focused on later on tomorrow will be that Warriors and Suns game.

Before that, let's dive into the three series

that we do know will get underway. A couple of them beginning on Saturday, and then the

Trailblazers and Spurs will go on Sunday. First, the four-five matchup, the Lakers, the

four-seed, they have home court advantage against the Rockets, but you wouldn't know it by the odds.

As right now, the Rockets, here's the one part that's moved. And early in the week, Mark, we looked at a series price for the Houston Rockets upwards of $7.5 as a favorite.

So they were minus $7.50 on Draft Kings when we started this week.

It has come down a pretty decent amount here. Seeing Circa having a $6 favorite price for the Lakers,

Draft Kings is all the way down to minus 575 in favor of Houston. So there has been some movement here. Lakers were

upwards of a plus 550 dog. They're down to plus 425 at circa 4 to 1 at Draft Kings. Right now,

the series total games price adduced to the over five and a half minus $1.15, under five and a half is minus a dollar

five. Now, all of this predicated on the five seed being favored over the four is the unknown

of Luca Donchich and Austin Reeves. The market telling us, though, Mark, even though Luca

is due back with the Lakers tomorrow, it does not feel as though we will see him anytime soon.

In good conscience, this is not a series I would really want any part of.

But you would have to believe that the Lakers are going to try and sell out in game one, knowing how spaced out the games are

just in this first round series to try and buy as much time to get either Luca or Austin

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