This wasn't what I was aiming for...

For you see, the mythical week in Las Vegas begins this Sunday. I'm not kidding.

It's the big week for the NBA, when the 26 teams battle for 10-in-a-row supremacy over the first of 13 head-to-head matchups between the league's two conferences.

The first round, which begins Monday night, is brutal. The first 11 games are 7.5-point spreads, the first seven are 7.5-point spreads.

Let me show you the spread records for these first 11 games:

That's the biggest stretch in Vegas since I started using the spread for my predictions more than 20 years ago.

I know, right? "Gee, isn't that weird?"