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N.Y. Knicks Predictions: 2010 NBA Future Lines

Quick article by Lawrence Paul detailing the N.Y. Knicks 2010 Season win total odds for over under nba betting futures and a season wins prediction…

New York Knicks Betting Odds – NBA Basketball Futures – Gambling Picks

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New York Knicks
Sportsbook.com Knicks Odds to win NBA title – 40/1
Key players added – Amare Stoudemire, Ray Felton
Key players lost – David Lee

How can you fix a problem when you don’t even know what’s wrong?

Desperate for talent, the Knicks have spent the last decade basically shooting wildly at anything that moves and spending the team into salary cap oblivion in an effort to find someone – anyone – who is better than the toxic sludge they’ve been trotting out onto the court year after year. The Isiah Thomas nonsense set the franchise back for a decade or more.

Now? At least there is some light at the end of what has been a long, dark Lincoln Tunnel.

Amare Stoudemire gives NY the big stud it has been searching for, and he will immediately become the team’s first option on offense and the face of the franchise. Stoudemire’s more-than-occasional defensive lapses won’t be a problem because the Knicks don’t really bother with defense all that much, at least not when it matters.

Stoudemire’s numbers might wilt at times because Steve Nash is not around to penetrate and dish for easy dunks, but incoming PG Ray Felton is no slouch and will be an adequate replacement for Nash.Online Sports Betting at Sportsbook

After Felton and Stoudemire there is a whole lot of maybe in the Knicks locker room, although coach Mike D’Antoni is convinced that Danillo Gallinari has the tools to be the next big thing. Gallinari is 6-foot-10, which is good. He averages 4.9 rebounds a game, which is not so good.

But he’ll give the Knicks 15 points a game and is a stretch 4, which means he likes to sit outside and shoot 3-pointers, where the risk of getting a Kevin Garnett elbow in the mouth is reduced by about 90 percent.

The Knicks never really had a chance in the LeBron James sweepstakes, even though they thought they did and whored themselves out in an effort to land him.

But they’ve bounced back a bit from the disappointment of not landing the franchise changer, and maybe the fan base will accept a more-modest improvement in vicinity of 8-10 more wins than the 29 last year’s bunch produced.

Surprising stat: Eddy Curry’s fat contract ($11.2 million) is finally off the books after this season
Strengths: Stoudemire at least makes the Knicks competitive at PF for 35-40 minutes a game; the acquisition of Felton means Knicks will no longer be swallowed whole nightly at the PG position
Weaknesses: Still not enough overall talent, and you wonder if D’Antoni will ever bring in a top-flight defensive assistant
Playoffs? Probably not
Win total projection for 2010-11: 37

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts.

By Lawrence Paul

Lawrence Paul is back in the saddle as a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog. He's got an AMAZING knack for predicting when a team will have a letdown! Stick with our resident gambling experts sports betting tips all season long!