Now, upon reading the title, you ask, ”How in the heck can you predict basketball games with math?!?”

It’s possible.

Or so says business executive Charles Allen.

Charles Allen works in a high-rise office with leather chairs, valuable paintings and a breathtaking but expensive view of the city. Allen, a forty-something family guy, is a respected executive in his company, well, wearing a sharp suit will certainly earn you that.

However, in this same office, Allen turns it into something else whenever it’s time for some NBA action. With a full slate of NBA games, the entrepreneur turns into a gambling tycoon.

With $15,000 riding on a Cleveland – Minnesota game, he blurts out, ”LeBron James nails a three-pointer! LeBron, you cockroach!” Allen needs the game to fall under the total point line of 183 but with just 9.2 seconds left, Ricky Davis ruined everything with a shot from downtown.

And he wasn’t even playing for the Wolves a couple of months ago.

”When you are a little kid, you’re cheering for your favorite team,” Charles Allen said on betting.

”When you’re much older, you’re saying, ‘What team has the better value?’ ” he said.

”For about 20 years, since the ’80s, I had this vision of building a company that used mathematics and modeling to predict the outcome of sports,” Allen recalled. ”For years, I tried to figure out how I could do it but I didn’t have the resources or the information. But two years ago, the time was right.”

”I was connected with strong university people to use artificial intelligence strategies and mathematical and statistical modeling ideas,” said Allen. ”It has now evolved to a point where we have very sophisticated and successful models on sports leagues.” – The Calgary Sun

Yeah sure. Me? I count how many times my dog barks in the morning, if it falls below a hundred times, that means the Hawks will lose again. Heck, my dog went 107 once and the Hawks still lost so you never can say for sure.

2006 NBA All Star Games Betting Propositions [Bodog]

• Player to win the Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk?  Andre Iguodala (PHI) 3/1,  Hakim Warrick (MEM) 7/2,  Josh Smith (ATL) 1/1,  Nate Robinson (NYK) 2/1 
•  Player to win the 2006 FootLocker 3 Point Shootout?  Chauncey Billups (DET) 3/1,  Dirk Nowitzki (DAL) 6/1,  Jason Terry (DAL) 6/1,  Quentin Richardson (NYK) 9/2,  Raja Bell (PHO) 3/1,  Ray Allen (SEA) 2/1