Traditionally the NBA trading deadline is a bit of a snooze, with the Association’s complex salary cap rules constraining teams from doing anything too dramatic. This year, however, there are some teams in both conferences with payroll flexibility looking to improve themselves for a spring playoff run by taking on some contracts for clubs that are headed for the draft lottery. The next few weeks will help separate buyers and sellers, and it places an emphasis on late January games that the week NBA Swarm has to be aware of when predicting these contests.

This week’s pick of the night is the Golden State Warriors, who play in Chicago against a surprisingly game of late Bulls team. Another high confidence matchup to watch carefully happens in Toronto tonight between the Pistons and Raptors. This is a game of two teams headed in different directions. The Pistons continue to scuffle amidst injury problems, while Toronto seems to be asserting themselves as a top-three team in the East.

The swarm is all over a Raptors prediction from the jump here. We get a rapid convergence on a Toronto high confidence, straight up win pick, with the magnets all going to the right side of the hex. The swarm also flirted with taking the hypothetical wagering confidence on this prediction up to the max, before settling with a still-strong 80. Toronto and Golden State thus form a very strong one-two punch at the top of the chart for today.

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