NBA Basketball: Memphis Grizzlies VS Los Angeles Clippers Pick and Predictions 03/05/2023

Game: 10:10 PM ET,  Sunday, March 5th, 2023

Venue: Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, California

TV:  ESPN

Grizzlies: 38-24, 2nd place Western Conference

Clippers: 33-33, 8th place Western Conference

BetMGM:  Point Spread: Clippers -7.5, O/U 227.5

PointsBet: Point Spread: Clippers -7, O/U 228

Fanduel: Point Spread:  Clippers -7, O/U 228

Grizzlies: PG Tyus Jones, SG Desmond Bane, SF John Kochar, PF Jaren Jackson JR, C Xavier Tillman

Clippers: PG Russell Westbrook, SG Paul George, SF Kawhi Leonard, PF Marcus Morris SR, C Mason Plumlee

An NBA Western Conference matchup that would be GREAT?!   BUT Several of the Grizzlies players are buttheads…. I know, I know… It is late in the season and we are just finding out that some of these players are butt heads now?... Yes.  The Memphis Grizzlies have a big probl;em… Their SF Dillon Brooks keeps getting technicals.  Unnecessary game reducing technicals. So he is kind of a butt head.  The real problem is star PG Ja Morant has gotten a worm in is ear.. And now must flash guns, or play with guns, or simply be a jackass whenever he is in public.  He is doing it in the city where former NBA player Lorenzen Wright was murdered… so good for Ja and good for Nike!  Anyway the Grizzlies will be missing their starting SF to technicals… their all-star starting PG to waving guns in public and on social media.. And their starting Center to simple injury.. That is a wild bunch of puke for a 2nd place in a conference team.  It is my solemn hope that they find some discipline somewhere. No one needs ot get hurt.. No one needs to be a douche… Nike should apologize.  The Clippers are healthy and ready to play.. But they haven’t won any games since they added PG Russell Westbrook to the lineup.. Maybe they should put him on the bench?... After all, the Clippers are a good roster that was a winning team when they added Russell… Now they are a .500 team trying to cling to a playoff “play-in” game. The great betting opportunity here is in knowing which group of buttheads is fixable and which will always be butheads?

The Memphis Grizzlies have won 6 of their last 10 games.  They are in a firm 2nd place in the conference… They would very much like anyone to take away any expectations on them… because they are scared of the rebuilt Phoenix Suns.. and they have revealed themselves to be out of control children.  The poor Mempohis fans that have to sit through this!  The Grizzlies lost their last game to the Denver Nuggets 113-97… Then they didn’t get a chance to be lectured by their kindergarten teacher before they took their sad asses to the club.  In the loss PG Ja Morant had 27 points & 10 assists… he then did everything he could to take away his talent from his team… or maybe he was trying to kill somebody?

The Los Angeles Clippers have won only 3 of their last 10 games… completely destroying their march up the standings in January.  They have threatened all year to be as good as their roster implies… but they simply can't get that done. They went 2-8 ATS over the last 10 games.  They lost their last game (and are on a 5-game losing streak) to the Sacramento Kings 128-127… It was a win ATS.. but embarrassing because it was their fifth loss in a row with new addition PG Russell Westbrook.  We are starting to see that Head Coach Tye Lue is not a head coach at all… he is a lackey that does whatever the star player wants done.. Any head coach with abilities would have started Russell off the bench and demanded he earn more time. It is a sad combo in LA.. when finally the Clippers have a good owner but a bad mix of personalities.. This team spent 30+ years in the exact opposite direction.

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Our prediction for Sunday, March 5th is…. Clippers 120 - Grizzlies 109

Bet on the Clippers.  You have no reason to trust the Clippers… BUT with Ja Morant and Dillon Brooks missing the game and with the Clippers being at home.. This is a real Clippers win… ???. Still bet on the Clippers.

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The Grizzlies are 3-10 as an underdog this season.

The Clippers are 7 Over and 23 UNDERS in home games the last 3 seasons.

Grizzlies: SG Desmond Bane.  Desmond is a great 2nd option on offense.  He will continually be thrust into the first option spot as long as PG Ja Morant gets injured and continues to be a full wack-job.  Desmond plays with a full enthusiasm for the outside shot and he could do it anywhere… unfortunately he does it with Morant and Brooks who are total numbskulls, terrible teammates.

Clippers:  SG Paul George.  Paul is the trade that killed the Clippers championship hopes after they added Khawhi… for a long time we thought it was Kawhi’s injuries that killed the hopes.. But no… It was PG-13, who is a great player, who is not as good as Shai Gilgeoius Alexander 3 seasons later… Will he take the night off?... Who cares?/… Not him.

Grizzlies: Taylor “He did what at a club?” Jenkins

Clippers: Tye “what? Who?... Where am I?” Lue