Well we didn’t get the Lakers v Cavs final many wanted and final I predicted. But I do believe that from a sports handicappers perspective we have some advantages. First, the Lakers are a very popular team and will get a lot of action from “fans” as much as gamblers. This tends to push the line just a bit to favor the Magic as the sportsbooks look to balance this tendency a bit. Adding to this factor is that the Magic remain an under rated team. A lot has been talked about and written about how Orlando was perfect (and maybe only) team to be Cleveland but they aren’t that good. Seems to me if that’s true they are a tough match up for LA as well. So I see value with Orlando plus the points, at least early on in the series. We’ll continue to make our picks looking for this added value with the Magic who few are giving a chance to win the series. We look for the Lakers to simply have too much in the end and win this series in 6 games but no game will likely be easy.
