Wanna bet that anyone making an NBA wager on Friday doesn't ponder the league’s ongoing betting scandal?

Consult the entry for Golden State at Portland – or anywhere news is published, discussed or broadcast – should you defy those odds.

A quick disclaimer before we proceed: The information that shaped the rationales below is technically “inside,” as it was researched and written from my home office and not the screened-in porch.

Let’s go.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS AT TORONTO RAPTORS, 6:30 P.M.

While rolling to the largest margin of victory in a season opener in franchise history might not carry the cachet of qualifying for the World Series, it’s all the Toronto Rangers, er, Raptors have at this juncture, all right?

Accommodating the Blue Jays’ run to the Fall Classic by moving up the tipoff t

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