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Struggling Knicks shoot for another win over WizardsBasketball Betting Lines02/26/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Knicks hope to put an end to their longest losing streak of this season when the badly-struggling club takes on the only team it has beaten in February, the Washington Wizards, this evening at the Verizon Center. New York has dropped eight straight games and 11 of its past 12 contests, with the lone win in that span coming against the Wizards at Madison Square Garden on February 3. The Knicks have not lost nine in a row since March 19-April 4, 2006. The latest setback occurred Tuesday in Boston, where New York came up on the short side of a 110-106 decision to the Atlantic Division-leading Celtics. The loss came on the heels of a forgettable 83-67 home defeat to Milwaukee the previous night. The Knicks hung tough with Boston for most of the game and pulled within 107-106 on Tracy McGrady's layup with 2:45 to go, but the team missed its final five shots as the Celtics hung on. David Lee amassed 28 points and 15 rebounds for New York in a losing cause, while Wilson Chandler ended with 19 points on the night. Sergio Rodriguez and Al Harrington each netted 18 points for the Knicks, who have now lost six straight road outings and fell to 7-18 as the visitor this season. Eddie House, acquired from Boston last week in a trade that sent guard Nate Robinson to the Celtics, mustered only four points and went 0-for-5 from three-point range in more than 26 minutes of action against his former club. "It's hard, just losing," House said afterward. "That's the hard thing, I'm not used to losing. I haven't been on a losing team in quite a long time." Washington has made drastic changes since its 105-87 loss to the Knicks earlier this month. The Wizards made three trades prior to the recent deadline that sent out five players, including a trio of starters in forwards Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison and center Brendan Haywood, with such notables as swingman Josh Howard and forward Al Thornton coming over in return. Veteran center Zydrunas Ilgauskas was also acquired from Cleveland in the Jamison deal, but the Wizards bought out the 7-foot-3 Lithuanian's contract on Thursday. Washington has won three of five games since the re-tooling, although the team was handed a 99-94 loss by Memphis Wednesday at the Verizon Center. Andray Blatche, moved into a starting role in Haywood's absence, led the Wizards with 24 points and has averaged 24.8 points and 9.8 rebounds following the February 13 trade with Dallas that shipped both Butler and Haywood to the Mavericks. Thornton racked up 16 points and 11 rebounds in the Wizards' first game since Howard suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee during Monday's 101-95 victory over Chicago. "When you lose a player, everybody has to fill different roles," said Wizards head coach Flip Saunders of Howard's injury. "It puts different pressures on you." These teams have split two previous meetings this season, with Washington downing the Knicks at the Verizon Center on January 30. New York has won five of its last seven overall matchups with Washington.
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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 millionIn the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree. And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so. Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal. So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them. Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.) The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money. As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached. The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs. In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season. Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done. And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting. So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year. There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve. So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal. And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million. There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.) Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft. Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey. Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year. So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation. To visit this sportsbook go to MySportsbook.com for all your college football betting needs. |
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