NBA & College Basketball Picks: Thursday 5th December

December 5^th 2013, 6:51am, By: Johnny Houston

Thursday 5th December 2013

San Antonio Spurs at Minnesota Timberwolves

This is listed as a Timberwolves home game, but if we take a closer look we see the Spurs are favored by 5.0. Why? MEXICO CITY! This game is really a Home game for the Spurs.

The Spurs are doing it again. The fountain of youth is clearly somewhere in San Antonio. Tim Duncan had 23 points and 21 rebounds on Monday night against the Hawks. They have a great bench and we believe they come into this game with lots of energy in a high scoring affair.

Spurs have won 19 of 23 in this series.

BET ON: SAN ANTONIO SPURS -4.5 ( 2 UNIT PLAY)

BET ON: OVER 205 (2 UNIT PLAY )

College Basketball

Best value bets today are....

Nebraska -4.5 vs Miami Florida

SMU-9.5 vs Illinois Chicago

All College Basketball today are for 1 UNIT

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