Fitz's What About the Dogs - On the Hardwood

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We're hitting the hardwood for the first time in NY Morning Wood Sports Blog history. This isn't the first trip for NYMWS Playas to the hardwood because my tag team partner Clayton has been giving the world hardwood gems on the twitter over the past few weeks. If you've been following our lead today you should be on the plus side for the day so you're in a good spot to get crazy and take a risk tonight. So let's get wild and roll with the 5-20 (9-16 ATS) New York Knickerbockers as they host the current beast of the east 17 and 6 (14-9 ATS) Toronto Raptors. 

Melo returned from his one game absence on Friday night as the Knicks finally stopped their 10 game losing skid. We've gotten all that has come with a losing team out of this group this year. Everyone is saying that Fish can't coach. Everyone is throwing shots at Phil in his first stint in the front office. Reports have already leaked of Melo fighting with his teammates and of course the nonsense that he would waive his no trade was written about this week as well. 

Thankfully Melo and his agent disputed the trade talks and said this is where he wants to be. After all the nonsense we went through with the free agency tour this summer it would have been a real kick in the nuts if we were to go ahead and trade Melo. It was bad enough that MSG decided to document the whole tour and then decided to say hey Knick fans we're going to let you watch Melo get wined and dined by other lovers. Seriously, what were the folks at MSG thinking airing that thing. It's like your girlfriend telling you she needs a break to figure things out. We all know that means she wants to go out and see if she can find some better dick, and when she doesn't, don't worry her and the clap she caught during her free agency tour your break are coming back to you. Then after you get her and the clap back, your own television network airs the whole thing so you can watch it. Call me Rachel but I don't care if we were on a break and I found the whole tour offensive. 

What's also offensive is Lowry and the Raptors being 7 point favorites as they visit the Mecca tonight. I get that the Raptors are for real and have made awesome front office moves like finding some fools to give them a 1st round pick for Bargnani, I get that. But you can't tell me that they're beating the Knicks by 7 tonight at the Garden. I don't care how bad that pyscho Rodman thinks the Knicks are. 

KNICKS 98 (+7) - Raptors 97

Play them both ways, +7 and without the points to win outright. 

-Fitzgerald 

p.s. Speaking of Rachel, we have to give a shoutout to Jennifer Anniston. I can't understand for the life of me why she had so much trouble keeping a man. Even at 45 years old, she's still a stone cold fox. Can't teach talent like this. 

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