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Vegas oddsmaker says 76ers would be 17-point favorites in hypothetical game vs. Kentucky

Eric Hartline / USA Today Sports

Phoenix Suns guard Eric Bledsoe re-ignited a popular basketball hypothetical on Wednesday when he claimed that Kentucky, his alma mater and currently college basketball's top-ranked team, would beat the NBA's punching bag, the 0-11 Philadelphia 76ers. 

As the Internet subsequently swelled with arguments about whether or not the Wildcats would realistically stand a chance against the Sixers, Jeff Sherman of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook came out with a hypothetical line for the hypothetical game.

It seems safe to assume that Bledsoe would bet against that spread. 

"I think Philly would probably get maybe one game," he said Wednesday on Sirius XM NBA radio about the outcome of a playoff series between the two teams. "I know they're going to be mad, but I love my Wildcats."

As Bledsoe anticipated, the Sixers were indeed mad. 

"Nah, they can't beat us," said guard Tony Wroten, Philadelphia's leading scorer, according to CSN Philly's John Gonzalez. "He's crazy."

"Yeah, it's insulting," Wroten continued. "He might be serious, but I know Bledsoe. I'm not going to take it personally."  

It's worth mentioning that Kentucky coach John Calipari agrees with Wroten, saying earlier this month that his team would get "buried" against any NBA opponent. 

ESPN ran a poll Thursday and, by Wroten's thinking, more than half of the voters (nearly 200,000 as of this writing) are as crazy as Bledsoe. Fifty-two percent of the voters said the Wildcats would beat the Sixers in a seven-game series. 

Just seven of the 50 American states favored Philadelphia, and amazingly, that doesn't include Pennsylvania, which had a clean 50-50 split.  

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