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As the regular season draws close to the end in any sport there are inevitably teams that have to play several games after knowing that they have no chance of making the playoffs. When two of these no-hope teams meet each other we have on of the tougher situations in sports (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the regular season draws close to the end in any sport there are inevitably teams that have to play several games after knowing that they have no chance of making the playoffs. When two of these no-hope teams meet each other we have on of the tougher situations in sports (more…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba-handicapping"],"yoast_head":"\nPicking Games Involving 2 Teams Eliminated From Playoff Contention - Sports Betting Library<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover advice from an expert NBA handicapper. 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