NBA Best bets: Dallas to Keep It Close, Jazz to Cover Tonight

Yeah. Lakers and Clippers tonight at your late night. Don't forget Thunder and the Mavericks. I like Dallas tonight in this one with Cooper Flagg, who is going to dominate this league. I had too many injuries. Just that's a lot emotionally and everything else to have to deal with, with your two best guys, your two starters losing them for the season. No Chet Holmgren. I think Dallas can keep that one close. And I am with you on the jazz. No way should San Antonio be laying. Those kinds of points here on the road in Utah here tonight. What am I missing? I know you. What am I missing? So you mean to tell me that in October, one week into the season, if San Antonio was playing Utah one week into the season, and this game was in San Antonio, they'd be 20-point favorites tonight? The line would be 20 in the first week of the season? Why? They just played Sacramento last night, Craig. They were 18-and-a-half-point favorites. Wow. They won by 29, I think. 130 to 103. Yep. Okay. No, it's really not. Now, Jaron Jackson Jr. is now out for Utah. He was a pretty big player for them, certainly a defender. But I think Nerensick is already out, too, as well. But they do have scoring there. They've got a lot of guys on there that can go toe-to-toe. I don't like the second night of a back-to-back in altitude with Utah anyway. It feels like when you're laying that kind of number, Craig, the backdoor could be the long season. We could see a lot of guys on the bench and the opportunity for the cover to happen in the fourth quarter, which is exactly what I'm hoping happens here tonight.