Friday Best Bets
Welcome to our “Tuley’s Takes” Best Bets column for Friday.
In case you missed it last week, we’ve started splitting our daily column into two separate pieces: there’s a FREE article where I recap the betting action from the night before and update league-wide ATS stats in the various sports, and then this one where I look for the best betting opportunities on today’s wagering menu. Links to both articles should be found on the VSiN.com home page, though I advise my regular readers to also bookmark my dedicated page at https://www.vsin.com/news/dave-tuley-columns/.Thursday Best Bet Results
Thursday was a pretty surreal day as the NFL Draft dominated most of the sports betting conversation here at VSiN and everywhere, even overshadowing actual NBA and NHL playoff games.
You can find more on that in my ATS Report. As for my own bets here in these Best Bet columns, my only official play on Thursday was on Royals First 5 Innings +0.5 +100 at Twins and it lost as the Twins led 7-1 after 5 innings. I was actually relieved as the only other plays I considered on the White Sox and Rangers also lost to the Rays and Yankees, plus I’m glad I passed on the Hawks vs. the Celtics as they failed to cover as 7-point home underdogs despite covering nearly the entire game (that would’ve been a tough pill to swallow, so we’re glad the “dog-or-pass” works for us there). We actually did have an unofficial play win as the first leg of our proposed Lightning-Maple Leafs First-Period Over 1.5 parlay on Thursday to the Avalanche-Kraken First-Period Over 1.5 came in after we were finally able to get down our bet on Thursday afternoon. We’ll see if that comes in again for us at +199 (we’re 4-1 for a net profit of 7.24 units on these so far in the playoffs), though we’re assuming we’re going to face the same issue trying to get down on tonight’s game to Saturday’s Maple Leafs-Lightning 1P Over 1.5. Let’s get to our plays for Friday.NBA Friday Best Bet
Kings +7.5 at Warriors: The Kings are back in the “zig-zag role” after failing in it in Game 5. The home teams won the first four games of this evenly matched series before GSW finally became Road Warriors in Sacramento, so the Kings have a great chance to return the favor to send this back home for a decisive Game 7 or at least keep it close like they did in Game 4’s 126-125 loss in San Francisco on Sunday. If you’re with us, be sure to shop around for the best number as we have +7.5 overnight at the Westgate SuperBook here in Las Vegas as well as at DraftKings in the states where they’re legal, but +7 at most other books