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Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence-

SUN 2/5… Memphis @ BOSTON – Grizz: 9-1 O/U L10 vs Bost / Celtics: 6-1 Sunday HG... Toronto @ MIAMI – Raptors: 14-2 O/U A vs .666 > con opp / Heat: 5-0 O/U H vs .333 < con...

Sunday's NBA Plays

Memphis Grizzlies at Boston Celtics (-4.5, 179) Jesus Shuttlesworth has game. And he's had a whole lot of game especially since returning from an ankle injury on January 29. ...

On Sunday, all eyes are going

to be glued to the Super Bowl, as the New York Giants and New England Patriots get set to do battle for the Lombardi Trophy. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren't oppo...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SBB’S SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Magic are 11-0 ATS (5.3 ppg) since April 07, 2006 when seeking revenge for a double-digit home loss. SDQL TEXT: team=Magic and P:margin<-10 and...

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence-

SAT 2/4… Orlando @ INDIANA – Magic: Series visitor 5-1 / Pacers: 0-5 O/U H in 0/0 rest sit... Philadelphia @ ATLANTA – Sixers: 4-1 L5 vs Atl / Hawks: 0-4 H in 0/0 rest si...

Saturday's NBA Plays

Golden State Warriors at Sacramento Kings (-1.5, 199.5) You can’t say that Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson doesn’t have the pulse of his team. He kept starte...

The NBA announced the starters

on Thursday that fans voted in for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game to be played at Orlando's Amway Center. Most of the names aren't all that surprising, and with 13 games on Saturda...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SBB’S SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Suns are 13-0-1 ATS (9.9 ppg) since May 09, 2005 with at least one day of rest after a road win in which they allowed at least 50% from the fie...

Friday's best NBA bets

Indiana Pacers at Dallas Mavericks (N/A) Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle knows exactly what his team is up against Friday night. Cons...

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence-

THUR 2/2… Memphis @ ATLANTA – Grizz: 6-2 A in 1/1 rest sit / Hawks: 2-6 H in 1/1 rest sit… Chicago @ NEW YORK – Bulls: 8-2 O/U A w/ no rest / Knicks: ...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Hornets are 11-0-1 ATS (11.2 ppg) since March 29, 2006 as a dog when they have lost their last three games SU and ATS.SDQL TEXT: team=Hornets and D and...

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

THUR 2/2… Memphis @ ATLANTA – Grizz: 6-2 A in 1/1 rest sit / Hawks: 2-6 H in 1/1 rest sit… Chicago @ NEW YORK – Bulls: 8-2 O/U A w/ no rest / Knicks: 1-5 in 1/0 rest si...

Thursday's NBA Plays

Memphis Grizzlies at Atlanta Hawks (-4.5, 182.5) The Atlanta Hawks could have easily tanked when Al Horford hit the shelf with a pectoral injury and nobody would have though...

There are six games on the NBA

Thursday slate, including the Denver Nuggets visiting the Los Angeles Clippers. The Nuggets will likely be an underdog, a role they’ve excelled in at 5-1 against the spread....

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence-

WED 2/1… Washington @ ORLANDO – Wiz: 1-6 L7 vs Orl / Magic: 0-5 O/U as DD div favs… Chicago @ PHILADELPHIA – Bulls: 4-1 O/U Wednesday RG / Sixers: 6-1 O/U L7 H vs Chi.....

Wednesday's NBA Plays

Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks (-1.5, 196) The Dallas Mavericks are slowly digging themselves out of their early-season hole, having won six of their last seven ga...

Scoring in the NBA has been

a hot topic this season, especially for people who love betting the total. A Don Best article written a few weeks ago highlighted that league scoring was at 94.6 PPG, down 5.0...

Wednesday night in the NBA features

22 of the 30 teams in action. There are a number of storylines that are worth watching and a lot of potential playoff previews on tap, but there are also some teams that are fa...

Today´s NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

TUE 1/31… New Jersey @ INDIANA – Nets: 1-6 Tuesdays / Pacers: 0-5 O/U H in 1/1 rest sit... Boston @ CLEVELAND – Celtics: 3-9 L12 A vs Clev / Cavs: 1-9 O/U H in 1/1 rest s...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SBB’S SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Nets are 0-13 ATS (-7.4 ppg) since April 16, 2003 as a dog after a double digit home loss in which their DPS was minus 15 points or less.SDQL T...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

Sacramento Kings at Golden State Warriors (-7.5, 199) The Golden State Warriors have not had the quick turnaround that Mark Jackson was looking for when he took over behind t...

It has become something of

a rarity when an NBA team isn't playing consecutive games, and that makes Tuesday's slate of games very unusual. Twelve of the 14 teams in action will have enjoyed a day off o...

Home court rules in the West:

It was a head-scratcher to say the least. Missing two of their three leading scorers, the Milwaukee Bucks were getting 5.5 points against...

Monday's NBA Plays

San Antonio Spurs at Memphis Grizzlies (-6, 189) One thing the San Antonio Spurs will not have to worry about Monday is whether its starters got enough rest. Trailing by ...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Suns are 10-0 ATS (7.2 ppg) since November 25, 2009 when playing the second game of a two game homestand after winning the first.SDQL TEXT: team=Suns a...

Today´s NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

MON 1/30… Chicago @ WASHINGTON – Bulls: 12-2 in 0/1 rest sit / Wiz: 0-7 O/U L7 vs Chi... Orlando @ PHILADELPHIA – Magic: 2-6 O/U A w/ no rest / Sixers: 0-4 O/U L4 vs Orl....

Today´s NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

SUN 1/29… Chicago @ MIAMI – Bulls: 1-5 O/U Sundays / Heat: 3-10 O/U L13 vs Chi... Toronto @ NEW JERSEY – Raptors: 0-4 O/U A vs div / Nets: 1-8 O/U Sundays... Cleveland @ ...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Bulls are 10-0 ATS (13.6 ppg) since December 26, 2009 with at least one day of rest after a game in which less than 45% of their baskets were assisted....

Game of the day:

One of the most hotly anticipated rematches finally hits the hardcourt Sunday when the Chicago Bulls visit the Miami Heat. It's the first meeting between the NBA powerhous...

Looking ahead to this upcoming

week’s action, no game is bigger than Sunday afternoon’s matchup between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat in Miami. Currently the Eastern Conference’s top two seeds,...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Knicks are 11-0 ATS (7.2 ppg) since April 04, 2010 when they are playing in at least their third straight road game.SDQL TEXT: team=Knicks and A and p:...

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

SAT 1/28… Washington @ CHARLOTTE – Wiz: 2-7 O/U L9 vs Char / Bobcats: 0-4 O/U in 0/0 rest sit... Detroit @ PHILADELPHIA – Pistons: 7-2 in 0/0 rest sit / Sixers: 2-12 H in...

Saturday's NBA Plays

Los Angeles Lakers at Milwaukee Bucks (5, 182) Metta World Peace, the former Ron Artest, played a big role in the Lakers’ 96-91 win over the Clippers on Wednesday. Not only...

There are six games that litter

the NBA rotation schedule on Saturday night, and there are definitely some notes that have to be taken into consideration for those contests. Coming into play on Friday, the E...

Today's NBA Trends by Marc Lawrence

FRI 1/27… Charlotte @ PHILADELPHIA – Bobcats: 4-1 O/U L5 A vs Phil / Sixers: 7-1 Friday HG... New Jersey@ CLEVELAND – Nets: Series visitor 6-1 / Cavs: 3-8 Friday HG… In...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SBB’S SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Bobcats are 12-0 ATS (9.0 ppg) since February 13, 2008 with at most one day of rest when they have lost their last three games SU and ATS.SDQL ...

Denver Nuggets starting point guard

Ty Lawson and his backup Arron Afflalo are both listed as doubtful for Friday's game against Toronto, which could leave rookie Julyan Stone to run the offense. Lawson sprain...

Friday's NBA Plays

Washington Wizards at Houston Rockets (-9.5, 197.5) The Washington Wizards gave newly-appointed coach Randy Wittman a warm welcome in his first game behind the bench, hammeri...

The Miami Heat could get superstar

Dwyane Wade back on Friday when they host the New York Knicks. This is part of a huge 13-game docket. There’s also a key game out west with Oklahoma City visiting Golden Sta...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Celtics are 0-11 ATS (-10.5 ppg) since December 09, 2010 on the road after a double digit win in which they outshot their opponent by at least 10 perce...

NBA Trends by Mark Lawrence

THUR 1/26… Boston @ ORLANDO – Celtics: 1-4 O/U Thursdays / Magic: 10-3 Thursdays… Memphis @ LA CLIPPERS – Grizz: 4-1 as RD’s vs Pacifi c div / Clips: 1-4 O/U H in 0/1...

Thursday's NBA Plays

Boston Celtics at Orlando Magic (-8, 176) Fading teams on the second half of back-to-back games can be a good betting strategy at times. H...

Few are talking about the NBA

trading season just yet, as seven weeks are left until general managers have to make their final moves for the year. However, the seemingly certain deal involving Dwight Howard...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Mavericks are 10-0 ATS (8.7 ppg) since April 05, 2003 at home when seeking revenge for a loss as a road favorite in which they were out-rebounded by do...

Wednesday's NBA Plays

Minnesota Timberwolves at Dallas Mavericks (-6, 184) The Mavericks figured that if they had to be without Dirk Nowitzki for a while, it might as well be sooner rather than la...

We might only be about a quarter

of the way through the NBA betting campaign, but for the Washington Wizards, it is already time to hit the reset button. After just a 2-15 start to the season that also saw the...

NBA Trends by Mark Lawrence

TUE 1/24… New York @ CHARLOTTE – Knicks: 1-7 O/U in 2/1 rest sit / Bobcats: 8-1 in 1/2 rest sit... Orlando @ INDIANA – Magic: 1-6 O/U Tuesday RG / Pacers: 4-0 in 1/0 rest...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Knicks are 0-10-1 ATS (-11.4 ppg) since February 27, 2009 as a favorite after a game at home in which they scored less than 15% of their points from th...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat (N/A) The last time LeBron James faced his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers went on a 18-5 run to finish the game in a 102-90 victory. ...

The Indiana Pacers have been

one of the early surprises in the NBA this season and will try to prove themselves against some of the Eastern Conference’s elite teams this week, starting on Tuesday when th...

NBA Trends by Mark Lawrence

MON 1/23… Washington @ PHILADELPHIA – Wiz: 0-6 L6 vs Philly / Sixers: 6-0 O/U L6 vs Wash... Orlando @ BOSTON – Magic: 2-9 O/U A w/ 2 rest / Celtics: 2-8 O/U L10 vs Orl......

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Magic are 15-0-1 ATS (7.5 ppg) since November 27, 2006 on the road after a double digit home win in which they allowed less than 40% from the field.SDQ...

Monday's NBA Plays

San Antonio Spurs at New Orleans Hornets (5, 178.5) The San Antonio Spurs head to the Big Easy looking for an answer to their two-game losing skid. The Spurs, knowing rou...

NBA betting action is at

the quarter pole of the season, and today, we’re taking a look at some of the hottest an coldest teams on the basketball odds of late. Sitting at the very top of the season-...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Pacers are 10-0 ATS (10.3 ppg) since December 03, 1999 as a dog with at most one day of rest after a road win in which they had an assist to turnover r...

LA LAKERS over Indiana by 1

says Marc Lawrence..... Like Philadelphia, Indiana’s improved play this season certainly makes them a playoff contender in the top-heavy East as they no longer appear to be...

Sunday's NBA Plays

Milwaukee Bucks at Miami Heat The Miami heat are simply a different team at home than they are on the road. As of Saturday evening, away they are a modest 5-3 but at home the...

NBA injuries have been a bigger

problem than normal due to the lockout, with the shortened training camps and condensed 66-game regular season schedule. We’re focusing on the key injuries for Sunday and Mo...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Kings are 0-10 ATS (-9.1 ppg) since January 10, 2008 with at most one day of rest off a win of four points or fewer in which they held a double digit l...

Saturday's NBA Plays

Dallas Mavericks at New Orleans Hornets (5.5, 175) With shooting guard Eric Gordon (21.0 ppg) still sidelined by a bruised right knee, the Hornets are reeling. They’ve lost...

The first meeting between Carmelo

Anthony and his former team will highlight Saturday’s 10-game NBA schedule when the New York Knicks host the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden. Tip-off is planned for ...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Timberwolves are 0-12 ATS (-10.1 ppg) since January 17, 2007 with at least one day of rest after a win in which they made fewer baskets than their oppo...

Friday's NBA Plays

Milwaukee Bucks at New York Knicks (-6, 190) The season may only be 14 games old for the New York Knicks, but it sounds a lot like Friday is a must-win already. New York ...

There’s an interesting early NBA

betting trend with the Western Conference dominating at home as we head into Friday. The Western Conference as a whole is 70-45-1 against the spread (60.9 percent) at home, pe...

AWESOME ANGLE OF THE WEEK by Marc L...

PLAY ON any NBA road dog in the 3rd of three straight games without rest. Play On: NEW JERSEY NETS (Mon 1/23)

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Mavericks are 0-10 ATS (-10.2 ppg) since March 09, 1999 as a dog after a loss in which their opponent shot less than 60% from the free-throw line.SDQL ...

The NBA’s two top scorers will

go head-to-head when the Los Angeles Lakers travel to South Florida to take on the Miami Heat on Thursday. Despite a ligament issue in his right wrist, Kobe Bryant is averagin...

Thursday's NBA Plays

New Orleans Hornets at Houston Rockets (-10, 186) All things considered, the Houston Rockets have to be pretty happy with their start to the season. They started the year...

If it’s Thursday night,

that means that we have a doubleheader of NBA betting action on TNT, and this week is absolutely no exception. The big game on the Thursday night docket pits the Los Angeles L...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Kings are 10-0 ATS (7.2 ppg) since November 12, 1999 after a double digit loss against the Timberwolves.SDQL TEXT: team=Kings and p:margin<=-10 and po:...

Wednesday's NBA Plays

Toronto Raptors at Boston Celtics (-11.5, N/A) Spin it any way you want to, but the Boston Celtics just aren’t very good right now. They have dropped five games in a ro...

The Philadelphia 76ers have

been one of the NBA’s surprise teams and bettors have been paying very close attention as well. They’re part of a big 11-game slate on Wednesday. Philly (10-3 straight up)...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

San Antonio Spurs at Miami Heat (-7, 201) Officially, Dwyane Wade’s status for Tuesday’s game against San Antonio was still up in the air as of Monday night. But word has...

This year in the NFL,

there were a number of crucial injuries throughout the season that many attributed to the fact that the players were locked out and were subjected to a shorter training camp. T...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Raptors are 11-0 ATS (8.3 ppg) since November 25, 2005 on the road with at most one day of rest after a road loss in which they committed fewer than te...

Monday's NBA Plays

Portland Trail Blazers at New Orleans Hornets (-5.5, 181.5) One thing is certain: a team will leave New Orleans Arena on Monday evening with a four-game losing streak. The ...

NBA Weekly Betting Trends:

HOTTEST BET: Philadelphia 76ers It may be time to start believing in whatever is going on in the City of Brotherly Love. The Sixers have emerged as one of the biggest surpris...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Spurs are 0-10 ATS (-13.8 ppg) since December 23, 1999 at home after a win in which they committed at least twenty turnovers.SDQL TEXT: team=Spurs and ...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Warriors are 13-0-1 ATS (11.5 ppg) since February 27, 2002 with at most one day of rest off a loss as a home dog in which they led at...

The Miami Heat are not a better

team without Dwyane Wade, but NBA bettors have certainly been happier with him missing this season. The Heat just dropped the final three games of their 5-game trip. The first...

Saturday's NBA Plays

New Jersey Nets at Utah Jazz (-9, 187.5) Utah rested Friday night while the Nets played in Phoenix. The 6-4 Jazz have gotten a lift from reserve Josh Howard, who had 16...

The first battle of Los Angeles

will take place on Saturday night at the Staples Center when the Clippers host the Lakers in one of three regular-season meetings between the teams. The highly-anticipated mat...

Friday's NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Rockets are 15-0 ATS (11.3 ppg) since March 29, 2006 off an overtime loss.SDQL TEXT: team=Rockets and 0 Read More

Friday's best NBA bets

Miami Heat at Denver Nuggets (3, N/A) The Denver Nuggets reeled off six straight paydays beginning with an upset win on the road against the Lakers on New Year's eve, but thi...

Friday the 13th is typically

a day that many do not want to test their luck and fate, but the NBA betting schedule is chock full of some great games on the eve of what should be a great sports weekend. Th...

Thursday's NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Hawks are 0-12-1 ATS (-8.8 ppg) since January 10, 2004 with at most one day of rest after a double digit loss in which their opponent stole the ball at...

Thursday's NBA Plays

Detroit Pistons at Milwaukee Bucks (-8, 177.5) There are ugly losing streaks and then there is the skid the Detroit Pistons are riding. The Pistons lost their fifth strai...

Lower scoring has been a hot

topic in NBA betting circles as we get ready for a modest 5-game Thursday night slate, highlighted by a TNT doubleheader. The league scoring average is 94.6 PPG this year, a 5...

NBA betting fans of the Orlando Magic

got some good news on Tuesday, as superstar Dwight Howard expects to stay in Orlando for the entire season. Though it could turn out to be terrible news for the Magic when it i...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Wizards are 0-14 ATS (-8.6 ppg) since April 05, 2005 at home with at least one day of rest after a loss in which their DPS was minus 15 points or less....

Wednesday's NBA Plays

Atlanta Hawks at Indiana Pacers (N/A) Indiana has used strong team defense to build up its record, allowing only one team – the Heat –...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies (3.5, 193) Oklahoma City pulled off its own brand of a three-peat Sunday night, becoming the fi...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The League is 0-12 ATS (-5.3 ppg) since March 25, 2011 at home after playing the Raptors. Active with Indiana.SDQL TEXT: H and po:team=Raptors and 20110325...

Believe it or not,

the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers would be seeded third and fourth in the Eastern Conference playoffs if the NBA regular season ended now. Ok, the 2011-12 season is al...

Monday's NBA Plays

Indiana Pacers at Philadelphia 76ers (-4.5, 183.5) Two of the bigger surprises in the Eastern Conference over the first two weeks have been the Philadelphia 76ers and Indiana...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Trailblazers are 12-0 ATS (7.8 ppg) since January 27, 2007 after a road loss in which their DPS was minus 15 points or less.SDQL TEXT: team=Trailblazer...

Sunday's NBA Plays

San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder San Antonio probably isn't looking forward to its annual "rodeo road trip" next month when it has to vacate the AT&T Center next mo...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Spurs are 12-0 ATS (6.8 ppg) since March 13, 2010 as a favorite off a win in which their leading scrorer for that game had fewer than 20 points.SDQL TE...

Saturday's NBA Plays

Chicago Bulls at Atlanta Hawks (3.5, 177) The Hawks will be playing for the third straight night. It’s their fifth game in six days. Chicago is playing for the fourth ...

This weekend might be dominated

by the NFL playoffs, so it's easy to forget about other action across the sports betting world, and that includes some huge NBA games that should not be overlooked. Has Dwight...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers-

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Bulls are 10-0 ATS (8.3 ppg) since January 08, 2010 as a road dog with at least one day of rest after a game in which they scored le...

Friday's NBA Plays

Chicago Bulls at Orlando Magic (-1) One of the league's best teams goes up against one of its hottest players Friday as the Chicago Bulls travel to Orlando for a date with Dw...

Thursday's NBA Plays

Los Angeles Lakers at Portland Trail Blazers (-3.5, 190.5) Many figured the Los Angeles Lakers were set to take a step back this season. If Andrew Bynum keeps playing like he...

NBA betting action over the

course of the next few days should be hot and heavy, as there are a number of teams that are going to be playing in some big time spots that have a lot to prove. We’ll start...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Wizards are 0-11 ATS (-7.4 ppg) since November 02, 2010 after a game in which they blocked at least 10 shots.SDQL TEXT: team=Wizards and 10<=p:blocks a...

Wednesday's NBA Plays

New Jersey Nets at Boston Celtics (-12.5, N/A) If you ask Nets point guard Deron Williams, he’s pretty sick of his club’s five-game losing skid. Coach Avery Johnson is tr...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Bulls are 12-0 ATS (8.8 ppg) since December 18, 2002 as a favorite with at most one day of rest after a game at home in which their DPA was minus 15 po...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

Sacramento Kings at Memphis Grizzlies (-8.5, N/A) The NBA season is young, but the Sacramento Kings have already suffered great ups and downs. The Kings rebounded from a ...

A wild start to the NBA season

has left just two teams – the Minnesota Timberwolves at 4-0, and the Washington Wizards at 0-4 perfect against the spread. The condensed schedule – a product of the sho...

The Los Angeles Lakers are .500,

the Dallas Mavericks have the worst record in the Western Conference, and the only team in the supposedly stout Atlantic Division that is outscoring its foes this year is the P...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers:

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Nets are 0-12-1 ATS (-10.0 ppg) since November 06, 2004 as a home dog with at most one day of rest after a game in which they had more turnovers than a...

Monday's NBA Plays

Milwaukee Bucks at Denver Nuggets (-5.5, 200) Denver was clinging to a lead over the Los Angeles Lakers on New Year’s Eve but couldn’t close the deal in the fourth quarte...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Mavericks are 11-0 ATS (9.5 ppg) since March 31, 2010 on the road with at least one day of rest after a win in which they had an assist to turnover rat...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The League is 14-0 ATS (7.9 ppg) since February 16, 2011 at home after a game on the road in which they were whistled for fewer than 15 personal fouls. Act...

Saturday's NBA Plays

Denver Nuggets at Los Angeles Lakers (-5.5, 198.5) The Lakers survived Andrew Bynum’s suspension, going 2-2 in his absence. They cruised past the Knicks 99-82 on Thursday...

The new-look Los Angeles Clippers

make their much-anticipated home debut Friday night against the Chicago Bulls. The Clippers are 1-point favorites with a total of 190 points. NBA-TV will broadcast at 10:30 p....

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Hawks are 0-10 ATS (-11.2 ppg) since January 11, 2008 as a home favorite after a win in which they scored more than 25% of their points from the free t...

Friday's NBA Plays

Miami Heat at Minnesota Timberwolves (8, 208) If the first few games are any indication, the Miami Heat are going to be tough to get a read on again this year. After open...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Nets are 0-12 ATS (-8.0 ppg) since November 29, 2009 on the road with at most one day of rest after a 5+ point loss in which they shot less than 40% fr...

Thursday's NBA Plays

New Jersey Nets at Orlando Magic (-11.5, 181) Well, this is awkward, isn't it? Dwight Howard's current team (the Magic) hosts the team he wishes to get traded to (the Nets...

The 2011-12 NBA betting campaign

is in the middle of its first week, and there are already plenty of duels that are striking our fancy as tremendous games ahead. We will begin with the Boston Celtics, who are...

NBA Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Bobcats are 11-0 ATS (12.5 ppg) since March 07, 2008 at home off a win in which they trailed by 10+ points.SDQL TEXT: team=Bobcats and H and p:W and 10...

Wednesday's NBA Plays

Los Angeles Clippers at San Antonio Spurs (4, 194.5) It hasn’t taken the Los Angeles Clippers long to get comfortable with the new faces in the locker room. The Clipper...

NBA Daily Trends by SB Breakers

SU TREND OF THE DAY: The Celtics are 10-0 ATS (12.4 ppg) since February 21, 2007 off a loss of four points or fewer on the road in which they trailed by at least nine points.SD...

Tuesday's NBA Plays

Atlanta Hawks at New Jersey Nets (4.5, 182) Hawks star Joe Johnson enters the season trying to prove last season’s performance was a fluke. He shot 29.7 percent from 3-po...

The Los Angeles Lakers

face the effects of the NBA’s lockout with three games in three days continuing Monday. The lockout had many consequences for teams with just two preseason games and little ...

NBA Christmas Day:

Boston Celtics at New York Knicks (-5, 193.5) THE STORY: Two of the NBA's most storied franchises enter the shortened 2011-12 season in vastly different mindsets. The Boston ...

Sunday's NBA Plays

Miami Heat at Dallas Mavericks (4.5, 188.5) Get your popcorn ready for Christmas Day. Among five blockbuster games kicking off the 2011-12 NBA season is a rematch of last yea...

The Miami Heat’s season under

the microscope begins Sunday at the Dallas Mavericks. Tip-off from American Airlines Center will be at 2:30 p.m. (ET) on ABC. Miami is a 4-point favorite with the total still ...

There’s been plenty of player

turnover and new coaches in new cities, but it never hurts to look back at last season to see how teams stacked up in different areas of the game. BEST BENCHES Hoopsstats...

The NBA’s regular season is

less than a week away from its Christmas start and most rosters have taken shape after a flurry of moves. The biggest domino to fall was Chris Paul traded from New Orleans to ...

In yet another battle of billionaires

winning our over millionaires, the NBA finally came to its senses when it agreed to a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement. The 2011-12 NBA season is back on and with it...

After a tumultuous offseason

that included a long lockout and the threat of not actually having a season, the NBA is back and has started its preseason. Check out some of the battles that will be contested...

The wait is finally over

as the NBA preseason begins Friday with an eye towards the start of the real games on Christmas Day. The big question regarding the condensed preseason is how will the lockout...

The opening day of the NBA

schedule is already looking good, with two extra games added to the Christmas Day slate. But the rapid-fire player movement that has shuffled NBA rosters in the past week is...

Dwight Howard doesn't

necessarily want to leave the Orlando Magic just yet. A day after confirming that he requested a trade, the All-Star center softened his stance a bit after meeting with new ...

The respective fates of

New Orleans point guard Chris Paul and Orlando center Dwight Howard are getting closer to a resolution and each will have a dramatic effect on the NBA Future odds. The latest ...

Thanks to the NBA and

its players' union finally coming to their senses regarding a new collective bargaining agreement, there will be basketball this year, after all. And plenty of it, as it turns ...

The NBA lockout is mercifully

behind us, and the 2011-12 season is set to tip off on Christmas Day. There is still a lot to determine in terms of free agency and trading between now and the start of the sch...

The NBA can finally begin

its post-lockout, free agency period and the results could determine which teams make a serious run for the championship. Commissioner David Stern has let it be known that onl...

NBA to have a season....

Once the i's are dotted and the t's crossed, it appears we will have pro basketball in North America with the announcement that NBA owners and players have reached an agreement...

NBA commissioner David Stern

has clearly stated to the world that the league will cancel the first two weeks of the 2011-12 regular season if a new collective bargaining agreement isn’t reached Monday by...

LeBron James called

Game 5 of the NBA Finals the biggest of his career. His performance would suggest otherwise. James had another dismal fourth quarter, and now his Miami Heat are on the brink of...

At this point in the NBA

Finals we have a lot more questions than answers. Is LeBron James really out of gas and can’t be counted on to carry the Heat? Can Dirk Nowitzki fight through his flu sym...

If the series trend holds true,

then the Dallas Mavericks are in big trouble against the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night. The Don Best odds screen has Dallas as slim 1 ½-point home ...

The Miami Heat needed

a clutch Chris Bosh basket to avoid squandering another double-digit lead in the NBA Finals. Thanks to Bosh's heroics, Miami carries a 2-1 series lead into Game 4 against the h...

So what happened to

that amazing Dallas bench? The Mavericks’ reserves aren’t producing buckets like the unit had all season and during the first three rounds of the playoffs. Peja Stojakov...

Home-court advantage has

meant little so far in the NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat. The Heat lead the series 2-1 with Game 4 in Dallas on Tuesday night. The Don Best odds scree...

NBA Finals: Heat/Mavericks!

by Jim Feist The NBA Finals shift this week from South Beach to the deep in the heart of Texas, as the Heat head to Dallas for Game 3, 4 and 5. But is it that big of a deal th...

The NBA Finals has provided

a good amount of drama through the first two games. The scene now shifts to Dallas as the Mavericks prepare to host Game 3 Sunday night against the reeling Miami Heat. Dallas r...

It's hard to imagine

the Heat recovering from a collapse of Game 2's magnitude. Maybe in time to save the series. But not in time for Sunday. Miami, playing at home, led 88-73 with just over six...

The Dallas Mavericks stormed

back from a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter of Game 2 for a stunning 95-93 win to even the series. The scene now switches to American Airlines Center in Dallas for thre...

Someone must have left

the hen house door open because loud Chicken Little rants were the only words coming out from the mouths of NBA analysts. Yes, the sky must be falling for Maverick backers....

The opening game of the NBA

Finals couldn't have gone much worse for the Dallas Mavericks. They dropped a 92-84 decision to the Heat in Game 1 and will now have to deal with an injury to their star player...

The Dallas Mavericks are

feeling the Heat heading into Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night. They lost the opener and also suffered a fourth quarter injury to star forward Dirk Nowitzki. The Mia...

NBA Finals Fever!

by Jim Feist Say, what happened to the Celtics, Lakers and Spurs? 2011 was supposed to be the year when all the old fogies advanced in the NBA playoffs. Instead, young team...

The most talked-about team

in the NBA this past season has delivered on its vow to reach the NBA Finals. Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and the rest of the Miami Heat open the best-of-seven champi...

Something has to give

when a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals kicks off in South Beach on Tuesday night. Miami is the only team of the initial 16 playoff contenders that has not lost at home in the...

The wait is almost over

as the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks tip-off the NBA Finals Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena at 6 p.m. (PT). ABC will have the broadcast for the entire series. This i...

In the business world,

the Four Factors of production are land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship. The Four Factors of advanced basketball statistics, though, are effective field goal percentage...

Forget about listening

to NBA airheads about the postseason at your water cooler. We assembled an all-star lineup of handicappers to tackle the biggest betting questions facing basketball bettors ...

The only time they make

national headlines is when Mark Cuban is ruffling feathers from his soap box. He is their biggest marketing tool, not some 7-foot lurch from Germany. Expectations for Dallas...

With the Dallas Mavericks

and the Miami Heat set to meet in the 2011 NBA Finals, let’s look at four solid betting theories from our powerful database. All results are ATS since 1991 unless noted ot...

The Mavericks must feel

a lot like Rodney Dangerfield. The only time they make national headlines is when Mark Cuban is ruffling feathers from his soap box. He is their biggest marketing tool, not...

The storylines for the

2011 NBA Finals are definitely running deep. Two of the best players on the planet, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, are vying for their first NBA Championship, and one of the t...

Forget about LeBron James,

Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade. When aging veteran Mike Bibby and third-year guard Mario Chalmers can manage nothing more than a decent at the point, the Heat are nearly impossible...

The Heat's Big Three

united in Miami with the goal of winning multiple NBA titles. The trio of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh can take another major step toward that goal Thursday as the ...

The Miami Heat are coming

up big when it matters most as they battle the Chicago Bulls in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Miami has a commanding 3-1 series lead as play resumes Thursday night ...

Jason Terry allowed

himself to smile, but before the final seconds even ticked off his team’s miraculous Game 4 overtime victory in Oklahoma City, he was heard shouting a clear message to the te...

Dirk Nowitzki and the

Dallas Mavericks dealt the Oklahoma City Thunder a stunning blow in Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference final. The Mavericks look to finish the job Wednesday as they host th...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

are down 3-1 in their series against the Dallas Mavericks as they head back to Big D for Game 5 on Wednesday night. The Don Best odds screen has Dallas as 6 ½-point favorites...

Chris Bosh had his best

game of the postseason Sunday as the Miami Heat took a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference final. Bosh and the Heat look to continue their solid stretch of play as they welcome ...

The Heat may have been

labeled as a group of talented individuals who don’t necessarily make up a great team, but the sum of the parts is adding up just fine in the playoffs—especially in the Eas...

The star-studded Miami Heat

have gotten little scoring outside their ‘Big 3’ in the Eastern Conference showdown against the Chicago Bulls. So far, it hasn’t mattered much. Miami has a 2-1 series l...

It may be difficult to

determine which team has more momentum heading into Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference final Monday night in Oklahoma City. The Dallas Mavericks gained the upper hand in th...

The Thunder returned

home-court advantage in the Western Conference Finals to Dallas by digging themselves into a 27-12 hole after one quarter on Saturday night. They trailed by 23 points in the se...

The Dallas Mavericks

can inch a bit closer to locking up a spot in this year’s NBA Finals with a second consecutive win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road this Monday night in Game 4 of t...

The Miami Heat turned

the defensive tables on their rivals from Chicago to seize home-court advantage in the NBA's Eastern Conference final. The Heat look to take advantage of their Game 2 victory b...

LeBron James came

up big in the fourth quarter on Wednesday and almost seemed to single-handedly tie the Eastern Conference Finals at 1-1 as the Heat scored an 85-75 road win. But arguably the b...

The Eastern Conference Finals

return to South Beach Sunday for the first time since the 2006 playoffs, as Game 3 between the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat is set to tip off at 5:30 p.m. (PT) on TNT. Miami o...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

are finding new ways to win as they host the Dallas Mavericks in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on Saturday night. The series is tied 1-1 as it shifts locations. The ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

followed up a weak bench effort with a strong one, and now returns home tied 1-1 in their Western Conference final matchup with the Dallas Mavericks. James Harden led a 50-poin...

After getting one

of the greatest shooting efforts in NBA playoff history two nights earlier, the Dallas Mavericks will be hoping for an encore performance from Dirk Nowitzki in Game 2 of the We...

Game 1 between these

teams couldn’t have been more choppy. For most of the evening, it seemed like referees Joe Crawford, Bill Kennedy and Zach Zarba thought people came to watch them blow their ...

Fans of the Dallas Mavericks

were worried about their long layoff before Game 1 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. We can cross that one off the list. The Mavericks won fairly handily 12...

The Chicago Bulls have

been one of the NBA's stingiest clubs all season long, and that defensive prowess was on display in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final. The Bulls limited Miami's high-power...

You never thought Keith

Bogans, Ronnie Brewer and Loul Deng would be the keys to the Eastern Conference this year, did you? The three Chicago defenders have been lockdown since a Game 1 loss in the Ea...

The Chicago Bulls are

finally getting some respect from the oddsmakers as they host the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night. TNT will broadcast from the United C...

NBA Playoffs: Beware of Blowouts

by Jim Feist The NBA playoffs are in full swing, which means overall the better teams are battling each other. This is different from the regular season when many nights gre...

Both of these teams know

how to score, but the Thunder’s fast-paced tempo makes them a more explosive attack. OKC finished fourth in scoring during the regular season at 108.6 points per game, just a...

It may be No. 1 vs.

No. 2 in the Eastern Conference, but that’s not what we have out in the wild West. The last two teams left standing are Dallas and Oklahoma City, seeds three and four, respec...

Oddsmakers like the eventual

NBA champion to come from the East. The Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder each hope to wreck that notion. The Western Conference Final is finally ready to tip after ...

The Chicago Bulls are finally

getting some respect from the oddsmakers as they host the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night. TNT will broadcast from the United Center at...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

earned rave reviews for hammering the Memphis Grizzlies 105-90 in Game 7 to advance to the Western Conference semifinals. But oddsmakers figure they’ll have their work cu...

There is finally a Game 7

in this year’s NBA playoffs and the Memphis Grizzlies are playing in it. Who would have predicted that back in October? The eighth-seeded Grizzlies have a chance to be a surp...

You can blow a good team

out once. Twice is not as likely. As we’ve learned, teams that fail miserably tend to bounce back rather than stay down. In fact, teams...

Finally, a Game 7.

The first decisive game of this year’s NBA Playoffs was assured on Friday night when the Grizzlies took care of the Thunder to send the series back to Oklahoma City. Now, the...

The waiting game has been

extended for the Dallas Mavericks. A seventh game will be needed to decide who the Mavs' opponent will be in the Western Conference Finals after the Memphis Grizzlies coasted ...

A true marquee,

superstar-filled Eastern Conference Finals matchup is just around the corner. The top two seeds in the East, the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat, will battle each other in a best-...

The Heat finished eighth

in scoring during the regular season to Chicago’s 20th. It’s nothing short of taxing to guard a team that features Chris Bosh, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade. For the Bulls,...

In the land of the Delta

Blues, the Grizzlies have been smoother than blue suede shoes. Elvis would be proud. The season outlook for Memphis was ominous at best. They play in the superior Western C...

The Grizzlies' front line

is finally starting to wear down. After a triple-overtime loss to the Thunder in Game 4, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol had very little left in the tank to take with them to O...

The eighth-seeded Memphis

Grizzlies simply ran out of gas in the third overtime of Game 4 against the fourth-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, leading to a 133-123 home loss on Monday. That disappointing f...

The Miami Heat and Dallas

Mavericks could find themselves playing for the NBA title for the second time in six seasons, each with dramatically different rosters. The teams have advanced to their respec...

Jamal Crawford has to

score for the Hawks and it doesn't look like he's going to be able to get it going again this series. Crawford, one of the top sixth man and best streak-shooters in the leag...

In a series that keeps shifting

momentum, this time the Chicago Bulls are on the attack. After running away with Game 5 in the fourth quarter, the Bulls have a chance to close out the series in Game 6 on Thur...

The Chicago Bulls can end

their 13-year hiatus between conference final appearances when they visit the Atlanta Hawks in Game 6 of their series Thursday night. The Don Best odds screen has the Bulls as...

Just when it looked like

the Boston Celtics were ready to make this a series, the Miami Heat proved they had the extra gear needed for playoff success. The Heat refused to give in to the hostile TD Gar...

Injuries and old age

have finally taken their toll on the Celtics. Kevin Garnett followed up on of his best playoff performances of his career in Game 3 with one of his worst in Game 4. The firs...

Ever since the Boston Celtics

traded away Kendrick Perkins, they've looked like a team that was old and decrepit. Now, after months of scrutiny, the Eastern Conference champs are on the ropes, as they are i...

The battle between the Memphis

Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder is turning into a war of attrition as the series continues Wednesday night. The Don Best odds screen has Oklahoma City as six-point home fa...

It’s down to a best-of-three

series as the Atlanta Hawks have proven they will not be easily dispatched. The Chicago Bulls appeared to have all of the momentum on their side after a convincing Game 3 victo...

Just when it looked

like the nail had been put in the Atlanta Hawks’ coffin, it all turned around for them on Sunday. Following a lackluster 99-82 blowout loss to Chicago in Game 3, they bounced...

The Chicago Bulls are getting

all they can handle and more from the Atlanta Hawks in their exciting second-round series. It’s all tied 2-2 with Game 5 taking place Tuesday night in the Windy City. The Do...

It’s a series again,

with the Boston Celtics asserting themselves in a major way in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal set against the Miami Heat. The return of Shaquille O’Neal to the ...

The Heat rolled

to victories in Game 1 and Game 2 because they are younger, more talented, and were playing at home. Boston, though, is the tougher team. And that's why it dominated Game 3 ...

Any thoughts the Miami Heat

or their fans might have entertained about sweeping the Boston Celtics can be put to bed now. Boston's 97-81 victory in Game 3 Saturday night was vintage Celtics and helped th...

It has now gone from

bad to worse for the Los Angeles Lakers. It was hard to fathom it getting any worse after L.A. lost the first two games of this Western Conference semifinal series at home....

They weren't supposed to have

a chance. They were supposed to choke in the playoffs. They were supposed to crack under the pressure. They were supposed to be the less physical team. They were supposed to li...

The Chicago Bulls will

look to make it three wins in-a-row over the Atlanta Hawks this Sunday in Game 4 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal matchup. Tip-off from the Philips Arena in ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

and Memphis Grizzlies end a brief hiatus when the Western Conference semifinal series resumes Saturday with Game 3 in Tennessee. The two teams are back on the court for the fir...

No team has been a bigger

surprise in the playoffs than the Memphis Grizzlies. They took out Western Conference No. 1 seed San Antonio in six games and have now wrestled home-court advantage from Oklah...

The Chicago Bulls went back

to what they do the best - locking down on defense. That philosophy helped them even the series in Game 2 despite an off night from MVP Derrick Rose. The Atlanta Hawks are unda...

Josh Smith hasn’t just been

ineffective for the Atlanta Hawks in their first two games against Chicago. He has been killing his own team. The forward known for his lack of a long-range jump shot is a c...

The Los Angeles Lakers

find themselves in a shocking 2-0 deficit as they head to the Dallas Mavericks for Game 3 on Friday night. Los Angeles is a two-point road underdog on the Don Best odds screen...

The Atlanta Hawks and Chicago

Bulls look to take control of their second-round series as the scene shifts to Georgia on Friday night. The Don Best odds screen has Chicago as 2 ½-point road favorites with ...

Now that we’re getting into

the heart of the second round, and with an off day slated for Thursday, we figured now was as good a time as any to check in to see how teams have adapted to the pressures of p...

The NBA playoffs are

only at the beginning of the second round, but we’ve already seen big trends develop against the spread and the total. The total made big noise in the opening round with the...

The Atlanta Hawks were

an afterthought when the postseason started. They are certainly at the forefront in the minds of the Chicago Bulls right now. The Hawks shocked the Bulls in Game 1 of the Easte...

If there is one lesson

the Bulls learned during the second half of the season, it’s how to rebound from a loss. Chicago is 9-1 straight up and against the spread following each of its past 10 defea...

Two NBA playoffs series

move on to Game 2 on Wednesday night, each with their own superstar hobbling on a bad left ankle. The first tip-off will be at 5:00 p.m. (PT) on TNT between the Atlanta Hawks ...

Atlanta exorcised some

playoff demons with its unexpected Game 1 victory over Chicago in the opening game of this Eastern Conference semifinal series. The fifth-seeded Hawks (49-40 straight up, 43-4...

Postseason Basketball

and Earlier Meetings by Jim Feist As the NBA playoffs roll on, handicappers should take careful note of how teams did against each other during the regular season. Examine...

The Miami Heat struck

the first blow - now the pressure is on the Boston Celtics to respond. Dwyane Wade got some scoring help from an unlikely source in Game 1, and the Heat managed to jump out ear...

Boston hammered a much

different Miami team in five games during last year’s playoffs and won the first three meetings between the teams during the regular season, covering the spread on all three ...

It's been a little like watching

VCU's run to the NCAA Final Four, only Lionel Hollins has more hair than Shaka Smart. The Memphis Grizzlies grabbed another 1-0 series lead with Sunday's road upset at the Okl...

The Boston Celtics were supposed

to have the edge over the Miami Heat in playoff experience and acumen, but it hasn’t worked out that way so far heading into Game 2 on Tuesday night. Bookmaker.com has Miami...

The top-seeded Chicago Bulls

used the heroics of Derrick Rose to secure their first three wins in the opening round. After a brief letdown, they followed with their most dominating performance yet. The fif...

The top-seeded Bulls have

not had any recent trouble against Atlanta. The Hawks came from behind to win the first game of the regular-season series, 83-80 at home. But the Bulls bounced back later in...

This is the city,

Los Angeles, California. There are 75,000 rapists, murderers and thieves, some of them also playing professional basketball. I was cruising the beach and catching some rays i...

The Bulls were on fire heading

into the playoffs, winning 21 of their last 23 games. However, a team that surprised everyone by earning the best record in the NBA, didn’t exactly look like a dominant No. 1...

Beating the top-seeded San Antonio

Spurs was no fluke. Memphis was simply the better team. The Spurs’ two wins came by four points and in overtime. And the series should have been over in five games, but th...

There is an unlikely matchup

in the Western Conference semifinals between eighth-seed Memphis and fourth-seed Oklahoma City. Both teams have roots in the Pacific Northwest, with the Grizzlies relocating f...

News that Shaquille O’Neal

had started practicing Friday in hopes of playing in Sunday’s Game 1 had little influence on the price of the Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Boston Celtics a...

When you look at the Los Angeles

Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, you see a whole heck of a lot of comparable things, and NBA betting fans might find it very difficult to parse the two teams. After all, the L...

The Atlanta Hawks are a heavy

underdog to the Chicago Bulls in the second round of the playoffs, but the talent level between the teams is a lot closer than most think. Game 1 is not until Monday and Bookm...

A last-second heave from beyond

the arc has given San Antonio life. The Spurs hope to extend their postseason stay at least one more game as they face the host Memphis Grizzlies Friday in Game 6 of their West...

The Grizzlies are younger

than the Spurs and quite possibly better, but the question now is do they know how to finish off a playoff series? Memphis came darn close to doing just that on Wednesday in...

There have only been three times

in the history of the NBA playoffs that a No. 8 seed has knocked off a No. 1 seed, and only once has it come in a best of seven series. On top of that, the Memphis Grizzlies ha...

The Boston Celtics meet

the Miami Heat in the second round of the NBA playoffs, by far the most anticipated matchup to this point in the season. The series starts Sunday and Bookmaker.com has the Hea...

The Atlanta Hawks are seeking

a clinching victory and the Orlando Magic will attempt to notch a breakthrough road win when Game 6 of the Eastern Conference first-round series is staged in the Peach State on...

The NBA Playoffs are about

to jump into high gear with Round 2 action and there are some outstanding technical situations that apply in postseason action. The second round offers up a handful of great in...

The Trail Blazers need

to have a huge Rose Garden crowd behind them to have a chance in this series. To take Game 3, Portland needed the crowd to force 10 Dallas misses from the free throw line. ...

Kobe Bryant is on a mission

and Los Angeles has huge size and talent advantages. But can the Lakers be trusted as a mid-sized road favorite in their first-round Western Conference playoff series against ...

The Dallas Mavericks look

to break the home court stranglehold and eliminate the Portland Trail Blazers when they travel to the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night. The Don Best odds screen has Portlan...

Defense and Totals in the NBA Playoffs

by Jim Feist The NBA playoffs are rolling along, which is a good time to revisit an old sports adage: Defense wins championships. Look at some recent Super Bowl winners. You m...

In the end, the Philadelphia

76ers just decided that they were not ready to stop playing basketball this season. The Miami Heat don’t mind, they’ll just go ahead and win the series in front of their ho...

The recipe for success

for Philadelphia only needs one ingredient: Andre Iguodala scoring. Iguodala is one of the most athletic and defensively gifted swingmen in the league, but as his shot goes,...

The Miami Heat don’t have

time on their side as they to eliminate the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of their series on Wednesday night. The Don Best odds screen has Miami as big 10 ½-point home favorit...

‘Chalk’ tends to prevail

in the NBA Playoffs, but there are a couple of interesting developments in the Western Conference where top-seed San Antonio has its back against the wall against eighth-seed M...

The Atlanta Hawks look

to wrap up their first-round series on Tuesday when they visit the Orlando Magic in Game 5. The Hawks prevailed 88-85 on Sunday to take a commanding 3-1 lead over the team that...

Bulls guard Derrick Rose has

single-handedly put his team on his back to guide them to a 3-1 series lead. That’s why there is reason to be concerned following a Game 4 loss that saw the former Memphis st...

With Portland leaving the comforts

of the Pacific Northwest and the Rose Garden, the team loses its most valuable asset: an amped-up Brandon Roy. Playing with virtually no ligaments in his knees from keeping ...

The Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic

have put on quite a show over the course of the first four games of their NBA playoff betting series in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Magic are on the...

The Los Angeles Lakers have

their hands full with the New Orleans Hornets at 2-2, but their bigger concern is the health of superstar Kobe Bryant. Game 5 of this series will be held Tuesday night in Los ...

Portland was out of sorts

and out of the game late in the third quarter, trailing by 23 points. Cue the comeback, as the Trail Blazers used an incredible 18-point fourth-quarter effort by Brandon Roy to...

With Portland leaving the comforts

of the Pacific Northwest and the Rose Garden, the team loses its most valuable asset: an amped-up Brandon Roy. Playing with virtually no ligaments in his knees from keeping ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder look

for a surprising 4-0 sweep of the Denver Nuggets when they meet Monday night in the Mile High City. That wasn’t supposed to happen with a four-seed meeting a five. The Don B...

The Miami Heat have not lost

since April 6 and have shown no signs of letting that streak end in during their first-round playoff series. The young Philadelphia 76ers have had a nice run and should have pl...

Yeah, no one has any idea

who is going to guard Dwight Howard now. The Magic center was averaging nearly 40 points and 20 rebounds per game entering Game 3 in Atlanta. In that tilt, the Hawks fin...

The New York Knicks are on the

brink of elimination as they host the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of their series on Sunday. No NBA team has ever come back from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs. The Don Best odds ...

Order appears to have been restored in

the playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Hornets whose stunning Game 1 victory is but a distant memory now. Kobe Bryant scored 30 points and Pau Gasol...

The Indiana Pacers looked as

though they had Derrick Rose contained in Game 3 - until the final minute rolled around. Staring at elimination, the Pacers will need to come up with another plan to stop the s...

Manu Ginobili makes all

the difference in the world for the San Antonio Spurs. Ginobili missed Game 1’s defeat to the upstart Grizzles but returned to provide a key spark in Game 2’s six-point ...

Can Oklahoma City defeat Denver

for a fifth straight time during a span of 19 days? The Thunder can achieve this feat if they upset the Nuggets Saturday night at 7 (PT) at Denver's Pepsi Center. Oddsmakers ...

The eighth seeded Memphis Grizzlies

continue their march towards history as they host the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night. This best-of-seven series is tied at 1-1 as it moves to Memphis. The Don Best odds s...

For the first time in the history

of the NBA, two of the top seeds in a conference lost outright in Game 1 of their first-round series. The Lakers were dropped as double-digit chalk and the Spurs as 6.5-point f...

There are 17 reasons to think

this game won’t come close to the over. Those 17 reasons are the 17 different clips Celtics coach Doc Rivers showed his team during a video session on Wednesday. ...

The New York Knicks have

done everything right in their playoff series against the Boston Celtics except win a game. They’ll try to break through Friday night as the scene shifts to New York, but inj...

The Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic

split their NBA playoff betting proceedings in the City Beautiful in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. Now the scene shifts to the Peach State, where Atlanta will hope to f...

It’s been the Derrick Rose show

so far, and the Indiana Pacers can't seem to do anything to stop it. The MVP candidate has led the Chicago Bulls down the stretch in each of the first two games of the Eastern ...

It won’t be of much consolation

since they currently trail the series 2-0, but the Pacers have given the NBA’s No. 1 overall seed all they can handle. The Bulls trailed 98-88 with less than four minutes ...

After the first few days

of the NBA Playoffs, it looks like we have a series on our hands in all eight cases, and Memphis-San Antonio is no exception. The Grizzlies knocked off the Spurs 101-98 as 6...

Dirk Nowitzki may have led Dallas

in scoring each of the first two games in their playoff series with Portland, but it's a sudden burst by Jason Kidd on the offensive end of the court that has keyed the Maveric...

The Chicago Bulls may be up 2-0

against the Indiana Pacers, but it’s been a lot harder than anyone expected. The teams move the series to Conseco Fieldhouse for Game 3 on Thursday night with Indiana facing a...

Last Sunday was filled with carnage

for high seeds in NBA playoff betting action. Since the field was expanded to 16 teams, never before had the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the same conference lost a Game 1 on the s...

The New Orleans Hornets look

to build on their shocking Game 1 win at the Los Angeles Lakers when they meet Wednesday night at Staples Center. Oddsmakers have New Orleans as big 11 ½-point road ‘dogs w...

The Celtics look to take

a 2-0 lead over the Knicks in their best-of-7 playoff series Tuesday in Boston as New York is expected to be without Chauncey Billups. The Knicks starting point guard injured h...

Jesus Shuttlesworth showed

that he got game. Ray Allen, of “He Got Game” fame, hit nine of 15 shots, scored a team-high 24 points, and buried his third three-pointer for the game-winner as Boston ...

The New York Knicks blew their

opening playoff game at the Boston Celtics on Sunday. They now must rebound both physically and mentally for Game 2 on Tuesday night. Early odds have Boston as 6 ½-point favo...

The first round of the NBA Playoffs

saw a couple of notable upsets in the opening games, but now it’s time to see if the underdogs can continue cashing money-line tickets. Atlanta (45-38 straight up, 38-45 aga...

NBA Playoffs: The Best of the West

by Jim Feist Start your engines! The NBA playoffs are in full swing, time for endless full court action every night as the league crowns another champion. Let's take a l...

Miami outscored Philadelphia 31-12

from the free throw line in Game 1. It's been a while since the Miami Heat opened a playoff series with a victory, almost five years for those scoring at home. Saturday's Gam...

The Celtics won all four regular-se...

but that should not be too much of a factor heading into this playoff series. Trade-deadline acquisition Carmelo Anthony played in only one of those contests and almost every s...

Boston won all four regular season

meetings against the NY Knicks. The New York Knicks and Boston Celtics resume their storied rivalry in a first-round playoff series beginning Sunday. This is the first playoff...

Money time. Show time.

Time to turn on the switch. Whatever cliché time phrase there is fits the Los Angeles Lakers as they open their first-round Western Conference playoff series hosting New Orle...

The Magic lost three of four

to Atlanta during the regular season, but you can probably throw those out the window. Orlando seems to be a different team when it reaches the playoffs. Stan Van Gundy’s squ...

Nobody thought much of the Bulls

when they won the Carlos Boozer sweepstakes last summer and missed out on Chris Bosh, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade. But instead of the Heat racking up the NBA’s best record,...

The Dallas Mavericks, seeded third

in the NBA's Western Conference, are expected to roll on to the second round of the playoffs. However, the sixth-seeded Portland Trail Blazers could have other ideas. These tw...

Atlanta and Orlando collide

in the NBA Playoffs for the second consecutive season, but the Hawks are hoping for a vastly different outcome. Last year's second-round series was completely one-sided, with ...

The 2011 NBA playoffs get rolling

this weekend, so it’s time to take a look at the report card heading into what will certainly be plenty of wild hoops action. Who’s hot? Who’s not? Who’s in danger of b...

Normally speaking, regardless of th...

that you're playing, the teams that earn the best regular season record have the lowest odds to win their championship. That's not true, however, when it comes to the 2011 NBA...

The Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat

could be on a collision course for the Eastern Conference Finals with each playing some of their best basketball of the season. Chicago is the plus 130 favorite to win the con...

NBA OPENING ROUND BETTING TRENDS

AND THEORIES By Marc Lawrence It’s never too early or late to prepare for the playoffs. Like preparing for a marathon, it’s best to put ourselves into the best possible...

Not even the Mavericks

can believe they are in position to earn the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. If Dallas wins out, the team that looked dead in the water with a four-game losing streak ...

The New Orleans Hornets close

out their regular season against the Dallas Mavericks in a possible preview of a first-round matchup between the two in the upcoming NBA playoffs. Tip-off from American Airlin...

Memphis and Portland

will be jockeying for playoff position when they square off on Tuesday. The Trail Blazers (47-33) lead the Grizzlies (46-34) by one game with two to play. Portland currently si...

The battle for the No. 6 seed

in the Western Conference is on come Tuesday night from the Rose Garden, as the Portland Trail Blazers play host to the Memphis Grizzlies. This crucial NBA betting tilt on Tues...

The Los Angeles Lakers find themselves

in a heated battle for playoff positioning when they host the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night. TNT will have the 7:30 p.m. (PT) broadcast from Staples Center, right after C...

The New Orleans Hornets close

out their regular season against the Dallas Mavericks in a possible preview of a first-round matchup between the two in the upcoming NBA playoffs. Tip-off from American Airlin...

The Toronto Raptors are hobbling

down the stretch of another sub-par season and will be outnumbered and outmanned when they face the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night. Five Raptors - Andrea Bargnani (ankle), ...

The Hawks have never been able

to beat good teams and now they can’t even beat bad teams. Atlanta is 30-11 against sub-.500 teams ...

The Orlando Magic and Philadelphia

76ers don't really have all that much left to play for in the regular season, but both are looking to carry some momentum into the playoffs for the coming year. The two will h...

Checking the points, plugs, oil and...

in the tires will be on the menu Monday night (4:00 p.m. PT) when the Atlanta Hawks host the Miami Heat in a battle of Southeast Division foes that have already clinched playof...

The Bulls and Magic are squaring off

in a preview of a potential second-round playoff series. Chicago has locked up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, while Orlando has clinched the No. 4 spot and will have...

Both teams are stumbling to the end

of the regular season, but whereas the Mavericks are still coasting into the playoffs, the Suns are wallowing into the offseason. Phoenix has dropped three of its last four ...

We already know the 16 teams

that are heading to the NBA's second season. What remains unclear is exactly how the first-round pairings will go as teams continue to jockey for playoff position with tight r...

The Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics

have been used as the benchmark for one another all season long in NBA betting action. Though neither one will end up with the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, both are st...

It’s sort of been a tale

of two seasons for the Atlanta Hawks; one against bad teams, and the other against good teams. Atlanta is a stellar 30-9 against sub-.500 teams in 2010-11, but it is a wretc...

NBA will have the 5:30 p.m.

(PT) broadcast from the AT&T Center. San Antonio (60-19 straight-up, 44-33-2 against the spread) clinched home-court throughout the West playoffs with a 124-92 Wednesday home ...

Longtime oddsmaker Pete Korner,

owner of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, spoke to Covers.com about potential postseason series as of Wednesday (they changed overnight). He gave “very loose, ballpark projectio...

Andrew Bynum has no chance

at earning NBA MVP. But he sure has been playing like it recently. The 7-footer has been a force in the paint the past few weeks, smashing his season rebounding averages and...

The Phoenix Suns will look

to even the season series with the New Orleans Hornets at two games apiece when the teams clash Friday night at the New Orleans Arena. Game time is set 5 p.m. (PT) and it will ...

Barring anything unforeseen,

the Denver Nuggets are going to meet Oklahoma City in a first-round Western Conference playoff matchup with the Thunder holding home-court advantage. So, on the surface, it wo...

Boston and Chicago are set

to do battle on Thursday night in a potential preview of the upcoming Eastern Conference finals. The Bulls have the inside track on the No. 1 seed and they are three games clea...

The Bulls aren’t playing

quite as well as you would think. Chicago has won eight of its past 10 games but is just 4-6 against the spread (ATS) over that span. Even more disturbing is the team’s in...

The National Basketball Association...

regular season is quickly coming to a close, but there is still some time to improve or maintain playoff positioning. Portland (45-33 straight up, 40-35-3 against the spread) ...

The Chicago Bulls look to severely

damage the Boston Celtics’ conference hopes when they meet Thursday night in the Windy City. TNT will have the 5 p.m. (PT) broadcast from the United Center, right before the...

Wade is averaging 25.7 points,

6.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, but is battling a sore right quad and could be sidelined for the meeting with Milwaukee. He aggravated the injury when he collided with T...

Shed no tears for the Miami Heat.

Since losing five in a row back in late February/early March, the Heat have gone 11-2. Miami has won eight of its last nine games and is battling Boston for the No. 2 playoff ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder

and Denver Nuggets could see a lot of each other in April, beginning with Tuesday’s contest in Denver. The two teams also meet in Oklahoma City on Friday and appear headed fo...

Shaquille O’Neal’s return

to the Boston lineup did not last long, Shaq, who had been out with an Achilles’ injury, suffered a strained right calf after playing just six minutes in Sunday’s home win ...

Sacramento (22-54 straight up,

34-40 against the spread) begins a four-game road trip playing the role of spoiler. The Kings are headed to the NBA Lottery, while Tuesday’s opponent Houston (41-36 SU, 41-3...

The Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City

Thunder will meet in a likely first-round playoff preview on Tuesday night. Both teams made major trades at the deadline and have benefited greatly. This 6 p.m. (PT) game from...

There are less than two weeks

left in the NBA regular season as teams continue to jockey for position prior to the start of the playoffs. There are 10 teams that have already clinched a spot and 10 teams ar...

The Hawks are seemingly locked

into the fifth spot in the Eastern Conference without much chance of moving up or down as the playoffs near. Still, that does not mean Atlanta has lacked motivation or effort. ...

Two Western Conference playoff teams

collide on the pro basketball hardwood Sunday when the Denver Nuggets visit Los Angeles to play the Lakers during the second game of an ABC-TV doubleheader. Tip-off from Staple...

All signs point to a Dallas victory

on Saturday night at Golden State. The Mavericks have won five of their last six games (4-2 ATS), although they are coming off a blowout loss to the Lakers on Thursday night...

The National Basketball Association...

regular season is quickly coming to a close, as there are just two weeks remaining until the playoffs begin. There is an interesting matchup on Saturday’s schedule pitting t...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have

picked a perfect time to peak in the regular season. They’re coming off their best single month in franchise history after going 14-2 straight up in March while covering 10 t...

The Portland Trail Blazers

and Oklahoma City Thunder both made moves to try to improve their interior games at the NBA trade deadline. These two Northwest Division rivals meet for the final time in the r...

The Milwaukee Bucks play

their biggest game of the season Friday night when they travel to Indiana. The Bucks trail the Pacers by three games for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They...

The Celtics and Spurs

have faced each other once this season heading into Thursday’s showdown at the AT&T Center. In Boston on Jan. 5, the home team prevailed 105-103 and just barely failed to cov...

The Celtics and Spurs

head into this matchup with a lot of similarities. Both clubs are dealing with a number of injury issues right now and neither have much to play for at this point season. B...

Time probably is going to run out

before the Los Angeles Lakers catch San Antonio for best record in the Western Conference. But make no mistake that the two-time defending world champion Lakers are coming on ...

The Boston Celtics and San Antonio

Spurs are both struggling heading into Thursday’s tussle in Texas. The Celtics problems are mostly due to poor play, while it’s injuries for the Spurs. TNT will have the 5...

The Magic humiliated the Hawks

in a record-setting playoff sweep last season, but Atlanta has won two straight in 2011. A December 6 decision in Orlando went 80-74 in the Hawks' favor and they prevailed 91-8...

Two Western Conference playoff teams

separated by just one game in the standings collide Wednesday night in a key contest. Portland (43-41 straight up, 38-33-3 against the spread) is slightly ahead of New Orleans ...

Like the blue-hair retirees that

ridicule the laws of driving, veteran NBA clubs will set the cruise control 10 miles under the speed limit and coast into playoffs the final three weeks of the season. Coach...

Oklahoma City locked up

a playoff spot with Sunday’s win over Portland to move to 9-1 straight up over its last 10 games. It was an impressive win with a playoff atmosphere and you can see how much ...

LeBron James returns to Cleveland

for the second time since his unceremonious departure as the Miami Heat visit the Cavaliers on Tuesday night. NBA-TV will have the 4 p.m. (PT) broadcast from Quicken Loans Are...

The Boston Celtics in the East

and the San Antonio Spurs in the West have been the front runners in the NBA for the better part of the season. Now, with less than three weeks to go before the playoffs fire ...

With Derrick Rose getting all

sorts of MVP talk lately and the Bulls on a healthy hot streak that has seen them lose just once over the past 13 games, you wouldn’t think coach Tom Thibodeau would have too...

The Chicago Bulls continue their push

for the Eastern Conference’s top seed as they host the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night. NBA-TV will have the 5 p.m. (PT) broadcast from the United Center. Chicago (53-19...

Hornets guard Chris Paul

is desperate to get some help for his team’s suddenly thin frontcourt. “You know when you lose somebody like David West its devastating because that’s our guy,” He s...

These are nervous, desperate times

in the NBA as teams jockey for playoff seeding or try to drive their way into the postseason with a late push in the win column. Two teams doing just that meet in Miami on Sun...

The New Orleans Hornets are going

to try to make a big-time statement on Sunday night in Tinseltown, and they have a real shot to do it against the Los Angeles Lakers in NBA betting action. Tip time is set for...

Another 50-win season is in

the books for the Dallas Mavericks. Next up is dealing with a six-game road trip that will determine their chances at the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. Dallas opens the...

The Utah Jazz did everything

to overcome injuries to Andrei Kirilenko and Devin Harris on Thursday, but ended up dropping a heartbreaking 121-117 overtime loss to the New Orleans Hornets. Paul Millsap ...

The Dallas Mavericks will go

go for the season sweep when they take on the Utah Jazz at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City. Saturday's tip-off is set for 6 p.m. (PT) and the game will be available on...

The Portland Trail Blazers

and San Antonio Spurs will see a lot of one another the next few days, beginning with Friday’s game in Portland. The two teams square off again Monday in San Antonio with bot...

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevi...

may miss the rest of the season due to a strained left groin, according to head coach Kurt Rambis. Love was hurt in Sunday's game against Sacramento. He missed Thursday nigh...

The hot-and-cold Miami Heat

have managed to win six of their last seven games heading into Friday’s game, but much like a lot of this season, they still have a lot of wrinkles to work out. Heat supp...

The Clippers have covered

seven of their last nine versus the Lakers. It’s a good thing Los Angeles does not have terribly cold weather because the city’s two pro basketball teams are having troubl...

The Charlotte Bobcats and Boston

Celtics are potential postseason partners this year, but both have some work in NBA betting action to do to get where they want to be. The two will duke it out on the Parquet ...

Dallas Mavericks coach

Rick Carlisle is trying to get his club ready for the playoffs with 12 games remaining, eight of which are against teams either holding down postseason spots or still in the ra...

Not Minnesota.

The Timberwolves are pure Mr. Hyde – bad. Minnesota takes it 17-54 record – second-worst in the NBA only to Cleveland – into Dallas for 5:35 p.m. PT Thursday game agains...

George Karl must have been

when he saw the out-of-town scores Monday night. The Denver Nuggets coach would have seen the New York Knicks lose again after watching his team dismantle the hapless Toronto R...

The Knicks have struggled

since going through their honeymoon phase with Carmelo Anthony, though after some interesting comments about “waiting for next year” earlier this week, Anthony has changed ...

Both the New York Knicks

and the Orlando Magic have their sights set on the Eastern Conference playoff race, and both really think that they can do some tremendous damage in the postseason. These two p...

The San Antonio Spurs will have

their depth severely tested when they begin a three-game road trip at the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night. ESPN will have the 7:30 p.m. (PT) broadcast from the Pepsi Center....

With winning tickets in

12 of 13 games the Nuggets have been a pure gold, but there’s another profitable trend worth watching in the Association these days. Books can’t seem to set spreads high en...

The Bulls and Hawks will be

squaring off for the third time this season and third time this month when they clash in Philips Arena. They split a pair of recent meetings, with each team prevailing at home....

After a hard-fought loss

to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Trail Blazers need to be careful not to overlook the Wizards, who still have only one straight up victory on the road this season. Portland e...

Though many NBA betting fans

are far more interested in who is covering the pro basketball spreads against each other, we know that we can do just as well by analyzing how teams are doing at the totals win...

The two-time defending champion

Los Angeles Lakers, winners in 12 of their last 13 games, continue their seven-game homestand Tuesday by hosting the Phoenix Suns. The two Western Conference foes will be meeti...

Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy

is pretty happy with his team’s play recently. The Magic have won three of the last four, limiting their opposition to fewer than 90 points in all three of those victories. ...

The Knicks have covered five

of the last six versus the Boston Celtics. This Monday the Boston Celtics travel to Madison Square Garden to take on the New York Knicks in what could be a preview of a first-...

Carmelo Anthony owes the Knicks

a check for his most recent game. The All-Star had just six points, four rebounds and two assists in 37 minutes; he finished 2 of 12 from the floor in a 99-95 loss to the Pisto...

Utah 36-33 straight up,

29-39-1 against the spread begins a three-game road trip with Sunday’s matchup at Houston (36-34 SU, 37-31-2 ATS). Both teams would be on the outside looking in on the NBA P...

The Boston Celtics have a couple

of big trends going against them as they travel to the New Orleans Hornets on Saturday night. The C’s have struggled on the road lately and in the second half of back-to-back...

Steve Nash was supposed to

return to the lineup off his pelvic injury on Wednesday and magically resurrect the Suns’ offense while putting an end to the team’s five-game losing streak. Well, he came ...

The San Antonio Spurs have had

several days to lick their wounds as they prepare for a Friday night battle at in-state rival Dallas Mavericks. The Spurs (54-13 straight-up, 37-28-2 against the spread) are c...

The Celtics traded Kendrick Perkins

and will certainly miss his interior defense. Newly-acquired Nenad Krstic and Troy Murphy are both offensive minded big men and underwhelming defensively. The Celtics are hopin...

Bettors who have wagered

on the Chicago Bulls this season have turned a pretty profit so far. The Central-Division-leading Bulls bring a league-leading 41-23-2 spread record and a seven-game winning st...

Both the Clippers and 76ers

have had their moments this year. Blake Griffin has helped Los Angeles become relevant again with his rim-rattling dunks and the team may have been a much better bet this s...

Two of pro basketball’s elite squads

currently in the midst of winning streaks collide Tuesday when the Southeast Division-leading Miami Heat host the Northwest Division-leading Oklahoma City Thunder in the first ...

This is the third meeting

of the season between the two teams after the Mavericks took the first couple of contests by nine points combined, so it’s no surprise to see a tight spread here. The Bla...

The Western Conference standings

are very tightly packed with several teams that could be legitimate title contenders. That includes the Los Angeles Lakers, two-time defending league champs who are looking for...

The NBA regular season

is quickly coming to a close, and there is a possible playoff preview on Tuesday’s schedule. Dallas (47-19 straight up, 35-29-2 against the spread) is currently the second s...

The Heat will be looking

to avenge one (of many) of their most embarrassing losses this season when they visit the Spurs on Monday night for the second of two meetings between the two NBA Finals conten...

The Clippers finish off a

successful road trip Monday in Memphis and they’re hoping to build upon a great effort on Saturday. Los Angeles ripped the Washington ...

Maybe, just maybe,

the Miami Heat are rolling once again. There hasn’t been any crying in South Florida the past four days as the Heat have posted consecutive impressive home wins against the ...

The Magic and Suns are set

for their second of two meeting this season on Sunday afternoon. If it’s not any better than their previous encounter, ABC is going to have a tough time pulling viewers away ...

The wheels have come off for the Pa...

Indiana has dropped six straight and eight of the past 10 overall. The culprit? A mediocre defense that also has seen the team go 2-8 ATS over that span. During this stretch...

Steve Nash just turned 37

and the Phoenix Suns great point guard is in physical pain. The Orlando Magic are in mental anguish having blown a 21-point lead in their last game, an overtime road loss to G...

No one could have predicted

the Nuggets would be this successful following the Carmelo Anthony trade. The squad is 6-2 SU and 7-1 ATS since dealing Anthony last month and is playing some of its best de...

Miami (44-21 straight up,

30-34-1 against the spread) continues its six-game homestand Saturday against Memphis (36-30 SU, 41-24-1 ATS). The Heat remain the third seed in the Eastern Conference despite...

A pair of teams that are looking

for some motivation meet up in NBA betting action in "Big D" on Saturday, as the Los Angeles Lakers duke it out with the Dallas Mavericks. These two teams are both vying for t...

The Orlando Magic snapped a

two-game losing streak by slipping by Sacramento on Wednesday with Dwight Howard back in the lineup after he served a one-game suspension. But they weren’t happy about it...

It was only nine days ago

when the Atlanta Hawks took out the Chicago Bulls at home in NBA betting action. The Bulls will look to get even on their home court Friday when these teams lock horns once aga...

Only the San Antonio Spurs

have a better record than the 46-16 Boston Celtics. But when it comes to being the point spread champion, only the New York Knicks rate as high as the Philadelphia 76ers, who ...

The Miami Heat, the pride of

South Beach, don’t have much to be proud of these days. The club that went from longshot to odds-on favorite to win the NBA championship last July is on a five-game losing st...

The Heat have been wretched against

good teams this season, but one of their best wins came at the Staples Center on Christmas Day. As a 3.5-point underdog, Miami laughed at the spread and hammered the Lakers...

No Channing Frye?

No problem. The Suns lost Frye to a dislocated shoulder on Sunday and he is expected to be sidelined for at least to weeks. Enter Hakim Warrick. The former Syracuse star got...

If some Miami Heat players

were moved to tears following this past Sunday’s loss to Chicago, there must have been a flood after the Heat lost at home again to Portland on Tuesday. Miami brings a five-...

The home team is 5-0 SU,

4-0-1 ATS when the Suns and Nuggets meet. While most of the focus this time of year is on March Madness, there is still plenty of action going on the pro hardwood. Denver (37...

The Spurs have the league’s

best record by beating nearly all challengers this season. But they haven’t been very successful when they are installed as a large favorite. San Antonio is a mere 3-7 ATS...

If this was supposed to be a growin...

season for the Thunder, they still have plenty of room left to fill out in their britches. The mark of a true championship-caliber team is its ability to play on the road, and ...

The Boston Celtics are shaking off

injuries and a bench overhaul as they host the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. The Celtics (46-15 straight-up, 29-30-2 against the spread) have won five straight game...

The push for the playoffs is

on in NBA betting action, as there are approximately just 20 games left in the season. Wednesday night the New Orleans Hornets will try to move one step closer to nailing down ...

Say what you will about

tear-jerking loss the Miami Heat suffered on Sunday night, but there’s no way any team in the Association would trade places with the Portland Trail Blazers as they visit the...

Chicago is charging up behind

behind Miami and Boston in the Eastern Conference. It wasn't exactly "Separation Sunday" on the NBA betting hardwood in the Eastern Conference, but it sort of felt that way. T...

The two-time defending champion

Los Angeles Lakers have silenced all their critics as they go for their eighth straight win Tuesday night in Atlanta. The Lakers (45-19 straight-up, 31-32-1 against the spread...

The Houston Rockets are knocking

on the door of a playoff spot by reeling off six straight up wins over their last seven games. Houston hammered Indiana 112-95 on Saturday, pulling within 2 ½ games of eig...

The Orlando Magic will have

a donut-sized hole in the middle when they host the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. Center Dwight Howard will miss this contest after picking up his 16th technical fou...

The carousel of clashes between

top teams in the Eastern Conference continues to go round and round, as the Bulls and Heat square off for the third time this season Sunday. Miami is at home and has a chance t...

New York head coach Mike D’Antoni

says his team’s offense remains a work in progress. Judging by a pair of losses to the Cleveland Cavaliers over the past few weeks, that’s an understatement. D’Antoni ...

If the Cleveland Cavaliers could

play the New York Knicks every night, the Cavs would be out of the Eastern Conference basement in no time. Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire have joined forces in New York ...

You have to wonder where the Clippers

would be in the standings if they could have stayed healthy this season. Now that Eric Gordon and Chris Kaman are back after lengthy layoffs, Los Angeles is looking to save som...

The Denver Nuggets will look

to extend their current winning streak to four games when they tangle with the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday. Tip-off from LA's Staples Center is a little past 7:30 p.m. (PT...

If you didn’t exercise due

diligence in handicapping this weekend’s slate of NBA games, you might not realize two teams will be eating fish and chips for their pregame meals. The Nets and Raptors ha...

The Knicks are poised for

some serious revenge to start the weekend. The Cavaliers stunned the Knicks 115-109 last week in Ohio, taking away all the momentum New York had gained since upsetting the H...

Memphis has covered the spread

three straight games vs. New Orleans. After months of sitting in no worse than third place in the Southwest Division, the New Orleans Hornets could fall out of that spot on Fr...

The best month of the sporting

calendar is upon us, but while most of the focus will be on the NCAA Tournament there are plenty of tickets to cash concerning pro basketball. The National Basketball Associat...

Orlando will be looking to

Orlando will be looking to even up the season series with Miami when the two Eastern Conference giants meet for the fourth and final time Thursday night. Appropriately, they ...

Both the Nuggets and Jazz

have undergone major changes over the last couple of weeks, though that's about the only thing the two clubs have in common. The Jazz have won just once over their first se...

The way they are going the Utah

Jazz won’t have to worry about being knocked out in the playoffs by the Los Angeles Lakers for a fourth straight year. The Jazz are far more a lottery team than a serious pl...

NBA bragging rights in the

state of Florida will be on the line Thursday night when the Southeast Division-leading Miami Heat host the second place Orlando Magic in the first game of a TNT pro hoop doubl...

Since Carmelo Anthony landed

in the Big Apple, my buddy’s Brooklyn accent has become more annoying. And after the Knicks upstaged the Heatles in Miami, I’m betting his “Yawk” will be thicker than t...

Denver has won three of its

first four games following the Carmelo Anthony deal while leading its supporters to the pay window in all four of those contests – pretty impressive considering the extent of...

The Chicago Bulls and Atlanta

Hawks are certainly well on their way to being contenders in the Eastern Conference playoff race. The two will meet up in the Peach State in NBA betting action on Wednesday nig...

The new-look Boston Celtics

will play their first home game since last week's big trade when they host the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night. The Celtics (43-15 straight-up, 28-28-2 against the spread) are...

Cleveland Cavaliers forward

Antawn Jamison will miss five to seven weeks after suffering a fractured pinky finger on his left hand during Sunday's 95-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers as 7.5-point underdo...

The Knicks love when everyone

writes them off against quality opponents. And why shouldn’t they? Even rebuilt, the team just losst to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers. But when the chips are down against a c...

The Knicks head to Orlando

off Sunday’s big upset at the Miami Heat. Bettors are learning there will be an adjustment period in games involving the new-look New York Knicks. The Orlando Magic will get...

The new-look Denver Nuggets

seek a third win in four games since the desertion of Carmelo Anthony when the road-weary Atlanta Hawks visit Monday. Denver topped Memphis and Boston prior to losing 107-106 i...

Call it the Hinrich Effect.

With defensive minded point guard Kirk Hinrich on the team, the Hawks look like a totally different squad. The three previous games before he arrived the club was falling apart...

Maybe it's a good thing

that both the Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics have been on the road since the trade deadline, as both teams made moves that really weren't all that popular with their fan bases. ...

The Thunder will get a chance

to avenge a loss earlier in the season when they host the Lakers in a nationally-televised showdown Sunday afternoon. At the Staples Center on January 17, Los Angeles handl...

The 76ers are playing with something

not seen in Philadelphia in a long time: swagger. The Sixers are 7-3 SU and 6-4 ATS over their past 10, playing their way into the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference. Not ba...

Two Eastern Conference teams

that are dramatically different from this time last season collide Sunday when New York (29-27 straight up, 33-21-2 against the spread) visits Miami (43-16 SU, 29-29-1 ATS). B...

The Celtics shipped off

Kendrick Perkins to the Oklahoma City Thunder just before Thursday's trade deadline and paid for it later in the day. Boston got hammered at Denver -- which had just made a dea...

The Chicago Bulls will look

to step up their road play when they start a five-game trip at Central Division rival Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night. The Bulls (39-17 straight-up, 33-21-2 against the spre...

Think of it as subtraction

by addition for the Oklahoma City Thunder. The team tried to get tougher and bigger when it dealt outside shooting center Nenad Krstic and forward Jeff Green to Boston for d...

The Dallas Mavericks and

Portland Trail Blazers have been on an ATS roll as we head into the final 20-25 games before the playoffs. Dallas has the West’s second best record at 41-16 straight-up (32-...

The Northwest Division-leading

Oklahoma City Thunder will attempt to persevere through a tough part of their schedule Friday night when they travel to Orlando for a battle with a Magic squad that is coming o...

Chicago will host Miami for the second

time this season before taking its talents to South Beach next month. The previous encounter between these two Eastern beasts came on January 15, when Chicago held off the LeBr...

Nuggets coach George Karl

joked after his team’s 120-107 win over Memphis that his team plays better with a shorter bench. Maybe he should try suiting up just nine players again when his team hosts th...

A reshaped Denver Nuggets roster,

minus Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups, will host the Eastern Conference-leading Boston Celtics during the second half of Thursday’s TNT pro hoop doubleheader. Tip-off w...

Two teams with legitimate

NBA title aspirations, the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls, meet Thursday night as part of nationally televised doubleheader. The Bulls will have Joakim Noah back in the lineup. ...

Some say the NBA is simply

an acronym for Nothing But Aggravation. Others contend it’s merely a Nice Bankroll Additive. Whatever your take, there is no better time than the present – with the NBA tak...

The Spurs love to feast

on…winning teams. San Antonio is a staggering 18-8 SU and 17-8-1 ATS against teams with winning records. However, the team is a mere 0-6 ATS as a favorite of 11 or more point...

The NBA All-Star break

couldn’t have come at a better time for the Utah Jazz. Stung by the resignation of Jerry Sloan and battered by injuries, the emotionally and physically crippled Jazz have los...

The Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers and Washington Wizards are finally back after their long hiatus from NBA betting action due to the All-Star break, and they'll be facing off against one a...

The New York Knicks host

the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night in what should be the much anticipated debut of superstar Carmelo Anthony. This is a back-to-back game for Milwaukee. The Knicks (28-26 ...

The Melo-drama is finally over:

All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony is returning to the Big Apple to play for his hometown New York Knicks, according to a report in the Denver Post. After months of speculatio...

The Pacers offense should

pick back up where it left off before the All-Star Break. After all, almost every team has been lighting up the Wizards. Indiana has thrived offensively under interim coach ...

Fresh off collecting the NBA

All-Star MVP trophy, Kobe Bryant will attempt to help his Los Angeles Lakers teammates snap a three-game losing skid Tuesday night against an Atlanta Hawks squad that is in the...

The first half of the NBA season

is in the books, but there are still ample betting opportunities to be had. Knowing which teams to bet and which to avoid can sometimes be as simple as checking out the sch...

Kevin Durant leads the NBA in scoring.

But the most exciting player in the Western Conference could be slam dunk king Blake Griffin. The two superstars hook up Tuesday night at 5:05 PT when Durant’s Oklahoma City...

The balance of power and player

talent between the NBA’s two conferences is no longer uneven like Reggie Miller’s old fade hairdo. Thanks to some good drafting and free-agent acquisitions, the East’s A-...

Eastern Conference vs. Western Con...

These two sides have been about as evenly matched as possibly the past two decades. Despite a huge disparity in the depth of either conference, the star power matches up fairly...

This season’s NBA All-Star Game

shouldn’t lack for plots. Tip-off is Sunday at 5:25 p.m. PT from Staples Center in Los Angeles with TNT broadcasting. Unlike the NFL’s Pro Bowl, fans and bettors actually ...

All-Star Saturday Night,

the tarnished crown jewel of the NBA All-Star Weekend, has come under fire in recent years. Critics claim the players don’t care about the contests like they used to and that...

The NBA All-Star break

this weekend signals the beginning of the regular season’s stretch run as each team have less than 30 games left to play to position itself for the postseason. The top eight ...

The NBA trading deadline

is less than a week away, and we know that there are inevitably going to be some moves, some big and some small, that could really change the landscaping of NBA betting action....

Entering the NBA All-Star weekend,

this is what we know about the Eastern Conference: Boston and Miami are the class of the conference, although both have losing ATS marks at home. ...

Dallas will be playing its second game

in as many nights with Thursday’s road matchup against Phoenix. The Mavericks are 38-16 straight up, 29-23-2 against the spread heading into Wednesday’s home contest with ...

Every single season, the San

Antonio Spurs are forced onto their rodeo road trip, a trip that usually spans somewhere around 10 games. The trip is often hard and arduous, but has often proven successful. T...

Cameron Indoor Stadium crammed

with Crazies can add a handful of points to a spread. An inebriated Superdome crowd is likely to induce a few false starts and an adjusted number. The final three at bats at Fe...

The Celtics might have

to start pulling people out of the crowd to have a full roster. Centers Semih Erden (personal), Shaquille O’Neal (achilles) and Jermaine O’Neal (knee) are all out for Wedne...

The Lakers have dropped two straight

after starting 4-0 on their road trip. If you were going handpick a team to face and try to end a long road trip on a winning note, chances are it would be the Cleveland Caval...

The clock is ticking towards

the NBA's trade deadline, but the action isn't going to stop for the New York Knicks in their quest to land Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets. The men ...

There aren’t many ‘blind bettin...

strategies that work across all professional sports. In fact, off the top of my head, I can only think of two. Betting on an elite level team coming off a couple of truly lousy...

The 76ers bandwagon is getting

crowded. Thanks to coach Doug Collins, the team is in the midst of one of the biggest turnarounds in the NBA. Philadelphia is 9-3 SU and 8-4 ATS in its past 12 games, including...

The Indiana Pacers are inching

closer towards the .500 mark this year, and barely hanging on to their spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race. On Tuesday night, they'll take on the Miami Heat, a team tha...

Utah and Phoenix, two teams

vying for playoff positioning in the Western Conference, renew acquaintances with Tuesday’s tilt. The Jazz (31-24 straight up, 24-30-1 against the spread) currently find the...

The Hawks need to find a way

to score points. Atlanta is among the better defensive teams in the league, but is among the worst at scoring the basketball. The squad is 22nd in the Association in points s...

The San Antonio Spurs can

see the light at the end of the tunnel with their eighth of a nine-game road trip moving to Newark's Prudential Center to take on the New Jersey Nets this Monday night. The tip...

In a potential preview

of the Eastern Conference Finals, Boston (38-14, 24-26-2 ATS) has a chance to clinch the regular season series against Miami when it hosts the Heat in a Sunday afternoon showdo...

Why can’t Cleveland make

it a winning streak? The Cavaliers remembered what it was to win again on Thursday night against the Clippers, a bad road team, and now have the league’s worst road team in W...

The Los Angeles Lakers might never

want to return to Southern California after a wildly successful road trip so far. They meet the Orlando Magic on Sunday afternoon in a nationally televised contest. Los Angele...

If you think this game

can crack the over, then you must believe in several players miraculously recovering from injuries and finding their shooting stroke. With nagging injuries to Hornets forwar...

Many thought that it was a

foregone conclusion at the outset of this season that the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat would meet in the Eastern Conference Finals. Though that might not ultimately be the cas...

Pro basketball bettors who

enjoy wagering on totals have surely noticed that the offensively-minded Oklahoma City Thunder have seen the ‘over’ cash in 32 of their first 51 encounters this season. Mos...

Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan

the third-winningest coach in NBA history, announce his resignation Thursday afternoon. Sloan, who was with the Jazz for 23 seasons and was the longest-tenured coach in the ...

So if the Jazz can’t beat

the Suns with head coach Jerry Sloan, what will happen without him? On Thursday, Sloan, joined by assistant Phil Johnson, resigned as head coach of the team. Assistant Tyro...

Not only do the San Antonio Spurs

have the best record in the NBA by far at 44-8. But the Spurs also own the top pointspread mark, too, at 32-18-2. So the Spurs should be an easy choice to back as a road favo...

The New Orleans Hornets will

attempt to snap a four-game straight-up losing skid and a seven-game non-cover slide when they travel to Florida on Friday to play an Orlando Magic squad that is beginning a se...

The Lakers lost to the Celtics

in the 2008 NBA Finals, but got revenge last summer by winning Game 6 and Game 7 at the Staples Center to culminate a thrilling series with yet another championship. When the t...

One of the most important tasks

for any handicapper is to identify what role teams are at their best for cashing tickets. After its win over the Celtics last Friday, Dallas improved to 23-10 straight up as a ...

The Warriors have to shoot

the three better. That’s not something you would expect to hear about the top-ranked team in three-point shooting, either. Golden State leads the NBA in threes, making 39.5...

A possible postseason preview

takes place Thursday night between a pair of teams playing on back-to-back nights. Dallas (36-15 straight up, 27-22-2 against the spread) is playing at Sacramento Wednesday ni...

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles ...

meet in their historic rivalry for the second time in 12 days, this one Thursday night from the East Coast. Boston’s bench has been ravaged by the injury bug lately. Los Ang...

The Toronto Raptors just

got a little deeper. Guard Leandro Barbosa expects to play after returning from a strained hamstring that sidelined him since last month. Barbosa averages 13.4 points and 2....

Few NBA teams,

if any, are streakier than the New Orleans Hornets. New Orleans surprised everyone opening with eight consecutive victories and 11 wins in its first 12 games. After that the ...

Chicago (34-16 straight up,

28-20-2 against the spread) continues a five-game road trip trying to get back on the winning track. The Bulls currently enjoy the largest lead of any first-place divisional te...

It seems like all the Indiana

Pacers needed to get back into the Eastern Conference playoff hunt was a little TLC from their head coach. "He always has positive things to say. He tries to make you feel s...

The Oklahoma City Thunder look

to continue their recent winning streak when they host Memphis on Tuesday night. The Grizzlies will be playing in a back-to-back situation, something they’ve excelled at this ...

You would be hard pressed

to find any sports team 12 games under .500 that has created a buzz quite like the Los Angeles Clippers. This historically inept franchise is well on its way to another entry ...

It's currently a two-horse race

in the Big 12 between the Kansas Jayhawks and Texas Longhorns. Sitting 2-3 in both of the latest sets of rankings, the Jayhawks and Longhorns appear destined to decide one of ...

The Chicago Bulls have gone 8-0-1 ATS

in their last nine NBA betting battles played on Monday. That's a streak that they'll put on the line this week at Portland's Rose Garden where they will crack skulls with the ...

The Clipper Bandwagon has

a dark secret. The team not only is in the midst of a brutal stretch of road games, but also is tied for the second-fewest road wins in the NBA at three. “We have so many...

The Philadelphia 76ers have

a league-best 31-17-1 spread record in their first 49 games. Doug Collins’ crew has surged atop the NBA’s cashing squads thanks to a 7-2 ATS mark in its first nine games s...

Opponents are struggling

to find a way to slow down Kevin Durant...and don’t expect the Jazz to have any answers. Durant has topped 28 points in each of the past nine meetings with Utah, including a ...

Phil Jackson’s squad heads

to New Orleans after a shaky homestand. It’s officially worry time for the Los Angeles Lakers and they begin a seven-game road trip Saturday night at the New Orleans Hornets...

Sixers point guard Jrue Holiday

must be salivating with the Knicks coming to town. Holiday had his first career triple-double in a win over the Nets earlier this week, finishing with 11 points, 11 rebounds an...

There’s a lot of age

on the Boston Celtics. Just don’t tell that to 38-year-old Shaquille O’Neal, 35-year-old Ray Allen, 34-year-old Kevin Garnett and 33-year-old Paul Pierce. They’ve helpe...

Oklahoma City (31-17 straight up,

24-24 against the spread) begins a stretch of playing four of its next five games on the road with Friday’s matchup at Phoenix (23-24 SU, 20-25-2 ATS). The Thunder currently...

The Magic had plenty to say

about Miami’s offseason coup of LeBron James and Chris Bosh, who took their talents to South Beach to join Dwyane Wade. The Heat, in turn, are not letting a chance to wage a ...

The Bucks may need to

start keeping an entire hospital staff on retainer. Center Andrew Bogut has been bothered by a knee injury, guard John Salmons has a hurting hip and now forward Drew Gooden wil...

The Miami Heat will be looking

to extend their lead in the Southeast Division this Thursday night when they take on the second-place Orlando Magic at the Amway Center. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m. (PT) and the...

The San Antonio Spurs look to

send an early playoff message when they travel to the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night. The NBA-best Spurs have taken the league by storm with a 40-8 straight-up record (2...

The toughest arena in the NBA

right now might be the Staples Center. But not when the Lakers are playing hosts. The Clippers have claimed nine straight at home, tying the third-longest mark in franchise ...

Derek Fisher wants no part

of Houston’s guards. In two games against the Rockets this season, the Lakers have gone 1-1, but Fisher was destroyed by Kyle Lowry, Aaron Brooks and Kevin Martin. “I am...

Swept by Phoenix in the playoffs

last season, San Antonio was expected to be improved. But the improvement the Spurs have shown is ridiculous. The four-time world champion...

The Los Angeles Lakers try

to avoid their first three-game home losing streak in almost three years when they host the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night. Los Angeles (33-15 straight up, 21-26-1 against t...

Jazz coach Jerry Sloan is known

as one of the all-time greats, but not even the man who made the green John Deer hat famous has an answer for his team’s biggest problem: getting the team to play any defense...

Blake Griffin has made

the Los Angeles Clippers respectable. The Clippers are so respectable they can break their team record for most consecutive home victories since the franchise moved from San D...

The Washington Wizards will

again attempt to capture their first road win of the season when they travel to Dallas for a Tuesday matchup against a Mavericks squad that is in the midst of a four-game winni...

The Heat have won two straight

and three of four following a four-game losing skid earlier this month, but they are still significantly banged up. In fact, LeBron James could be the only one of the “Big 3�...

A handicapping rule of thumb

is never bet on bad teams. But even sharps will tell you that law is hard to abide by. Finding value in terrible teams can be tough, just look at the Cleveland Cavaliers. ...

If the Thunder goes as

Kevin Durant goes, then Oklahoma City had better hope its star player and MVP candidate keeps crashing the boards. In the six games this season where Durant has collected do...

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles ...

are showing a lot of age, but they still are dominant teams. The two clash Sunday at 12:30 p.m. PT on ABC at Staples Center. It’s the first meeting since the Lakers beat the...

It’s all about defense

for the Hornets. New Orleans has used a dedicated team approach to shutting down opponents during its 10-game winning streak. It has held opponents to 89 or fewer points nine ti...

The San Antonio Spurs are

showing no signs of slowing down as they host the Houston Rockets on Saturday night. The NBA-best Spurs (39-7 straight-up, 27-17-2 against the spread) are in a very strange po...

Don’t buy the Pistons hype

in South Beach. Detroit is 5-3 SU in its past eight games and is 26-20 ATS overall this year, the fifth-most wins against the spread in the league this season. But, oddsmakers ...

The National Basketball Association

is already halfway through its 82-game regular season, and the All-Star Game Feb. 20 is quickly approaching. This marks an opportune time to check in on NBA futures since ther...

The Chicago Bulls and

Orlando Magic both have aspirations of representing the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals this year, and both know that they are probably going to have to go through the oth...

For late January, Thursday’s Heat...

game is big. LeBron James makes his second visit to Madison Square Garden as a member of the Heat. Tickets have been sold out since the schedule was released and the atmosphere...

Don’t call the Dallas Mavericks

soft. The team demonstrated its newfound toughness in a 112-105 comeback win over the Clippers. Whether it was Brendan Haywood picking up a flagrant foul on Blake Griffin attac...

The Miami Heat should

have a big addition to their lineup when they visit the New York Knicks on Thursday night. The Heat (31-13 straight-up, 21-22-1 against the spread) are just 1-4 SU and 1-3-1 A...

Boston (34-10 straight up,

21-21-2 against the spread) begins a four-game West Coast road trip with Thursday’s contest at Portland (25-21 SU, 22-22-2 ATS). The Celtics are currently running away with ...

The Grizzlies are getting close

to becoming something rare for them – a playoff team. Memphis – 6-4 SU and 6-4 ATS in its past 10 – is starting to play quality clubs close and beating the team’s it...

The Atlanta Hawks have a 10-6 spread

record in their last 16 games, with the ‘under’ going 9-7. Larry Drew’s squad flies north for Wednesday’s matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks, who have dropped two str...

Two teams trying to get back on

the winning track collide Wednesday night when Orlando (29-16 straight up, 20-24-1 against the spread) visits Indiana (16-25 SU, 19-20-2 ATS). The Magic remain in the thick of...

Paul Silas is no Larry Brown

– he’s actually better. The veteran NBA coach has led a turnaround that has helped the Bobcats increase their grip on the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference since he took...

The reeling Utah Jazz try

to salvage the final game of their road trip when they visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. The Jazz (27-17 straight-up, 20-23-1 against the spread) are 0-4 SU and A...

Two teams that are currently

going in different directions collide Tuesday night when the Los Angeles Clippers (17-26 straight up, 22-20-1 against the spread) travel to Dallas (28-15 SU, 21-20-2 ATS). The...

The Hornets have put themselves

back into the thick of the Western Conference playoff race by doing something the team struggled with around the holidays: playing defense. With a 41-point win over Atlanta...

The Oklahoma City Thunder look

The Oklahoma City Thunder look to continue their recent success over the New Orleans Hornets when they meet Monday night in Louisiana. The Hornets have been hot lately, winning ...

It seems like a lifetime ago

when the Pacers were the NBA’s top road team, posting a surprising win at Miami and looking poised to be a playoff dark horse. Indiana started the year 5-1 away from the Hoos...

The Denver Nuggets have a

4-2 spread record in their last six games, with the ‘total’ splitting at 3-3. George Karl’s crew completes a three-game homestand with Sunday night’s duel against the ...

The stellar play of Clippers

forward Blake Griffin has sparked a franchise resurgence, but also caused an ‘over’ run. This is just one of several recent NBA total trends that we’re examining. Griffi...

Sure, the Wizards are

0-20 on the road. But at home at the Verizon Center? Now that’s a different story entirely. At the Phone Booth, the team is 12-8, posting wins over Utah, Portland and Memp...

The Indiana Pacers will attempt

to snap their three-game losing skid Saturday when they continue a four-game West Coast excursion with a stop in Portland to play a Blazers squad that is on a four-game winning...

It was easy to tell the Lakers

had decided to take the night off on defense when Mavericks forward Brian Cardinal was blowing by Lakers stopper Ron Artest in a recent loss to Dallas. But in the second quarte...

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver

Nuggets both have plenty to be angry about as they prepare for their NBA betting warfare at Pepsi Arena in Denver on Friday night. The matchup is part of a packed slate of gam...

New York (22-19 straight up,

25-15-1 against the spread) continues a three-game road trip trying to get back on the winning track. The Knicks have dropped their last four games in a row SU, and previous t...

The Bulls killed the Mavericks

The Bulls killed the Mavericks on the boards (59-24) and overcame 36 points from Dirk Nowitzki in an 88-83 win in Dallas on Nov. 17. Dallas was a much better team back then ...

Philadelphia coach Doug Collins

has no doubt who makes his team go. It’s not guard Jrue Holiday, it’s not rookie Evan Turner and it’s not forward Elton Brand. It’s guard Lou Williams. Yeah, the one...

Through mid-December it looked

like the same Los Angeles Clippers, losers of 21 of their first 26 games. But since then the Clippers have won 10 of 14 games through Tuesday, going 9-4-1 against the spread. ...

When the Central Division-

leading Chicago Bulls host the Dallas Mavericks in the first game of Thursday’s TNT-TV pro hoop doubleheader at 5 p.m. (PT), the timing could not be better. The Bulls will be...

Enough is enough for the Washington

Wizards. The Wiz have won four straight games at home and bagged back-to-back victories in their last two outings, most recently knocking off the Utah Jazz, 108-101, as 4.5-...

The Detroit Pistons will take

a season-high three-game winning streak into Boston on Wednesday night to play a Celtics squad that has also captured its last three outings. Tip off from TD Garden is slated f...

The freefalling Dallas Mavericks

look to end a hideous six-game slide, both straight-up and against the spread, when they host the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. Dallas (26-14 SU, 20-18-2 ATS) started ...

It's amazing to think

that the 15-win Charlotte Bobcats have a great chance of making the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. They start off Monday just a half-game outside of the second season, and...

The Orlando Magic look

to finish off a five-game road trip on a positive note Monday in Boston. So far, the trip has been up and down for Orlando, splitting the first four games straight up and again...

The Memphis Grizzlies have

a 6-2 spread record since January began, with the ‘total’ splitting at 4-4 in the eight-game stretch. Lionel Hollins’ club plays its second straight home duel in Monday ...

Back on Christmas Day, the Orlando

Magic made a real statement by taking their new-look team and beating the snot out of the Boston Celtics 86-78 in the new Amway Center, the first clash of the season against th...

Beating the Miami Heat was

an accomplishment the Los Angeles Clippers weren’t ready to deal with. The Clippers, fresh off celebrating their big win over LeBron and Co., laid an egg against the Gold...

Denver (22-16 straight up, 14-21-3

against the spread) faces a daunting task in Sunday’s road matchup against San Antonio (34-6 SU, 24-15-1 ATS). Not only are the Nuggets playing their third game in four days...

The Hornets have been hovering

around the .500 mark following their torrid start to the season, but they are still in contention in the difficult Western Conference. New Orleans has won five of its previous s...

Buried in the tough Western Conference

and being in a small market, the Memphis Grizzlies don’t attract much media attention. Savvy NBA bettors know about Memphis, though. The know because the Grizzlies have been...

Division leaders collide Saturday n...

when Miami (30-11 straight up, 20-21 against the spread) concludes a five-game road trip at Chicago (25-13 SU, 21-16-1 ATS). The Heat are currently atop the Southeast Division...

Most teams struggle to find

offensive production with their starting point guard on the sidelines. However, the Kings have pushed forward without leading scorer Tyreke Evans, who is out with an ankle inju...

Forget the Los Angeles Lakers,

San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks. The Phoenix Suns are now at the level of the Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors. The Suns have gone from ...

This prime NBA betting battle in the

Lone Star State might, in actuality, be one between two of the best teams in the league. But right now, one team looks like a prize-fighting champion while the other looks lik...

Back-to-back games are

Back-to-back games are one of the most scrutinized handicapping situations in the NBA. That dilemma comes to the forefront when the red-hot Orlando Magic visits the Oklahoma Cit...

The Washington Wizards have hoped

The Washington Wizards have hoped that trading away Gilbert Arenas would give Nick Young a chance to assert himself with more playing time. It took a while, but maybe Tuesday’...

The Miami Heat have won their first

five games of January, with a 3-2 spread record. Erik Spoelstra’s squad plays the second night of a back-to-back spot in Thursday’s road duel against the Denver Nuggets, wh...

The Washington Wizards are looking

to win back-to-back games for the first time this season when they take on the Minnesota Timberwolves this Thursday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Tip-off is set for...

Being short on name-brand talent

is one thing, but a rash of injuries to the everyday players the team does have is keeping the Raptors out of the race in the Atlantic Division. However, head coach Jay Trian...

The Miami Heat will attempt to

extend their winning streak to 10 in a row and their road winning streak to a franchise-tying 14 straight when they continue a five-game road excursion with Wednesday’s stop i...

Orlando Magic General Manager

Otis Smith is feeling much better these days as his team goes for a franchise-record 10th straight win at the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night. Smith made one of the bold...

The revamped Knicks

will be playing their third game of a four-game West Coast swing, having defeated Phoenix and getting beat by the Los Angeles Lakers. Amar’e Stoudemire continues to pile in...

Don’t count out the Portland

Trail Blazers even if star guard Brandon Roy remains sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury. Roy has missed the last 12 games. Yet Portland has gone 8-4 despite his absence. ...

Bettors who enjoy wagering

on pro basketball totals have probably circled Tuesday’s contest between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on their calendar as a possible play. The ‘under’ has ca...

You have to hand it to Celtics

coach Doc Rivers. He’s as positive as can be when things are going well, but there might not be a better quote in the Association when he’s frustrated with his club. Bos...

Boston Celtics power forward Kevin ...

could be ready to blast off against the Houston Rockets in Monday night's home game. Boston (28-8 straight-up, 18-17-1 ATS) almost had a disastrous situation on Dec. 29 when it...

January is only nine days old

and already the Los Angeles Lakers are looking forward to the end of the month. Those nine days have been drama filled for the defending NBA champs, with the media jumping o...

The ailing Los Angeles Lakers

have been grinding out wins lately as they host the New York Knicks in a Sunday night encounter. Los Angeles (26-11 straight up, 16-20-1 against the spread) suffered a three-ga...

The Dallas Mavericks have been

one of the league’s premier teams this season, but have shown weakness with the absence of superstar Dirk Nowitzki. The Mavericks are 2-4 in the six games since Nowitzki ha...

Thanks to Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol,

the Los Angeles Lakers are the sixth-highest scoring team in the NBA. When it comes to totals, though, the Lakers rank among the three-best ‘under’ teams. The ‘under’ h...

It's hasn't been the most pleasant

couple of weeks in the world for NBA betting fans of the Boston Celtics. The C's might be 5-3 in their last eight games straight up, something that head coach Doc Rivers won't b...

Tony Allen is the hottest name

around the Grizzlies right now – and it shouldn't be for playing cards. Allen, the former defensive star with the Boston Celtics, has an absolute hideous jumper and was bur...

The Los Angeles Lakers have had the...

and tribulations of late trying to beat the NBA odds against some iffy teams, especially at home at the Staples Center. Friday night they welcome the New Orleans Hornets to tow...

The Denver Nuggets look to keep

the New Year rolling in the right direction when they take on the Sacramento Kings at ARCO Arena this Thursday night. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. (PT) and the game will be broa...

A couple of second place teams

in their respective divisions hook up in the first half of Thursday’s TNT pro hoop doubleheader when the Oklahoma City Thunder travel to Dallas for a meeting with a Mavericks ...

Golden State (13-21 straight up,

17-16-1 against the spread) concludes a three-game road trip trying to snap a two-game SU losing streak. The Warriors will be facing New Orleans (21-14 SU, 18-16-1 ATS), a tea...

The Phoenix Suns have a 1-4

spread record in their last five games, with the ‘under’ going 3-2 in that span. Alvin Gentry’s club opens a three-game homestand with Wednesday’s matchup against the ...

The Boston Celtics have won

two straight to start 2011, with the ‘under’ going 2-0. Doc Rivers’ club plays its third game in four days when hosting Wednesday’s matchup against the San Antonio Spur...

Spurs battle at NY Knicks

The San Antonio Spurs will take their league-leading 29-4 record to the East Coast for a three-game road trip that will start with Tuesday’s contest against the New York Knick...

Miami Heat at Bobcats

Southeast Division-leading Miami (26-9 straight up, 17-18 against the spread) begins a stretch of playing six of its next seven games on the road with Monday’s matchup against...

Sunday's NBA Plays

Despite their rivalries with the Lakers, Heat and Magic, the Boston Celtics’ toughest foe is time. The aging Celtics are starting to lose that fight, playing without veter...

LA Lakers still lead NBA West futur...

the 2010 portion of the NBA regular season schedule in the books. So it is a good time to take a look which team’s futures odds stock is rising to win the Western Conference a...

Mavericks, Bucks meet in Milwaukee

Kick off your 2011 on the right foot in NBA betting action on Saturday with a duel at the Bradley Center between the Dallas Mavericks and Milwaukee Bucks. The biggest question ...

Durant, Thunder host Atlanta Hawks

Two of pro basketball’s young up-and-coming teams hook up on New Year’s Eve, as the Atlanta Hawks begin a four-game road trip with a stop in Oklahoma City to play the Thunde...

NBA TNT doubleheader displays the

Magic who are beginning to develop chemistry on its new-look roster. Since acquiring Hedo Turkoglu, Jason Richardson and Gilbert Arenas in a pair of blockbuster trades, Orlando ...

Banged-up Mavericks host Spurs

The Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs fight for Western Conference supremacy, and Texas bragging rights, when they meet Thursday night. Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki (knee) is ...

Knicks and Magic tip NBA doubleheader

New York’s Raymond Felton is averaging 18.2 points and 9.0 assists per game. If it's Thursday night, that means that...

Clippers host Utah Jazz

The Los Angeles Clippers haven’t had too many great players in their prime during their 26-year history. Well, actually, maybe none. The Clippers have one now, though, in sec...

Cold Lakers visit hot Spurs

The suddenly offensively challenged Los Angeles Lakers certainly don’t receive a break in their tough schedule Tuesday when they travel to San Antonio to play a Spurs team tha...

Jazz host Blazers

The Utah Jazz have enjoyed plenty of rest following a successful 3-1 road trip. Like a lot of folks, however, the Jazz have to return to work Monday after their holiday vacatio...

Thunder look to strike down Mavericks

The Oklahoma City Thunder look to prove they’re an elite Western Conference team when they host the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. Bookmaker.com has the Thunder listed as ...

Two minute Hoops by Marc Lawrence

TEAMS, KEY FACTS, STATS & ATS TRENDS (All Stats are ATS - Against The Spread - unless noted otherwise) Saturday, December 25 NBA – Boston @ Orlando – Celtics: 1-6 O/U L7 ...

Celtics at Magic

This game looked a lot more compelling a month ago when the Orlando Magic (17-12, 10-19 ATS) were keeping pace with the Boston Celtics (23-4, 15-11-1 ATS) at the top of the East...

Nuggets at Thunder

A contest placed in primetime because of the presence of two of the NBA’s brightest stars will be without one of the luminaries when the Denver Nuggets visit the Oklahoma City...

Heat at Lakers

This has been the game NBA fans circled on the calendar ever since the 2010-11 schedule was released. The matchup pits the defending champs against the oddmakers’ pick to win ...

Hawks, Hornets top Sunday NBA action

Geographically speaking, the Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans Hornets couldn't be much closer. However, they are separated by conference affiliations and only see each other twice ...

Thunder, Nuggets part of Christmas NBA

The Oklahoma City Thunder have a 6-2 NBA spread record in their last eight contests, with the ‘under’ also going 6-2. Scott Brooks’ squad begins a four-game homestand wit...

Kobe versus LeBron

Santa’s sleigh could make an unscheduled stop at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday so that the jolly old fat man can see what many pro basketball experts believe will ...

New-look Magic host Celtics

The Orlando Magic put their revamped lineup to the test again when they host the Boston Celtics in part of a fabulous NBA Christmas lineup. General Manager Otis Smith did his C...

Miami Heat, Boston top NBA futures ...

The Eastern Conference has its share of favorites and long shots, with squads jockeying for position after the season’s first two months. NBA betting shops have had to stay o...

Bucks do battle at Kings

After upsetting the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday as 12-point road underdogs, the shorthanded Milwaukee Bucks will conclude their three-game West Coast trip by limping into Sacr...

Phoenix next NBA betting stop for M...

Miami (21-9 straight up, 14-16 against the spread) takes the court for the first time since having its 12-game winning streak halted when the Heat visit the Phoenix Suns on Thur...

Healthier Nuggets visit Spurs

The Denver Nuggets could be in line for major reinforcements when they visit the red-hot San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night. Denver (16-10 straight-up, 8-16-2 against the spr...

ixers travel to face Bulls

The Philadelphia 76ers will try and draw some inspiration from recent success of the Eagles and Flyers when they face the Chicago Bulls on the road this Tuesday night. Tip-off f...

NJ Nets at Memphis Grizzlies

Two struggling last-place teams meet Tuesday night when New Jersey stumbles into Memphis. These two squads have not met this season, but figure to duel once again during the NB...

Revamped Orlando Magic

Losing five of six games and was all Orlando Magic GM Otis Smith needed to see to confirm his suspicions. His club, the same one that played in the East finals last year and the...

Mavericks begin road trip at Heat

The Dallas Mavericks have a 5-4 NBA spread record in their first nine games of December. Rick Carlisle’s crew begins a three-game road trip with Monday’s duel against the M...

Knicks and 76ers top NBA betting ch...

The New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers have been the hottest clubs at the NBA betting windows, each cashing with spread records of 17-7-1 in their first 25 games. Both squa...

Early season NBA ratings

Biggest surprise team (good) San Antonio Spurs (20-3) On Thanksgiving morning it would have been the Hornets, who started 8-0 and have since gone 7-10. But did anyone figure ...

Mavericks end homestand versus Suns

The Dallas Mavericks look to put an exclamation point on a successful six-game homestand when they welcome the Phoenix Suns on Friday night. Dallas is 20-5 straight-up (14-9-2 ...

Jazz begin road trip at Hornets

The Utah Jazz have a 2-1 NBA spread record in their last three games, with the ‘over’ also cashing at 2-1. Jerry Sloan’s squad begins a four-game road trip in Friday’s ...

NBA TNT doubleheader

Atlanta Hawks at Boston Celtics No Ordinary Joe The Atlanta Hawks (16-10 straight up, 11-15 against the spread) put up a brave front but are feeling the absence of swingma...

Nets, Wizards in cellar clash

The matchup between the Washington Wizard and New Jersey Nets on Thursday night might not be the sexiest game on the board for NBA bettors, but it certainly provides us with ano...

Spurs at Nuggets

San Antonio, armed with the NBA’s best record, faces a tough task of playing on back-to-back nights when they meet the Denver Nuggets on Thursday. The Spurs are 20-3 straight...

treaking Heat host Cavaliers

The Miami Heat will attempt to extend their nine-game winning streak Wednesday night when they host a crumbling Cleveland Cavaliers squad that is in the midst of an eight-game l...

Bucks seek second NBA betting upset...

The Milwaukee Bucks started this season off as one of the worst teams in the NBA. However, the basketball odds suddenly jumped in their favor on Monday night when they took down...

Lakers continue trip at Wizards

The Los Angeles Lakers continue their East Coast road trip with a Tuesday night matchup against the Washington Wizards. Tip-off from the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. is se...

Nuggets host Magic for NBA betting ...

The reception for forward Carmelo Anthony could be ice cold when the Denver Nuggets return home to face the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night. Denver (14-9 straight-up, 7-14-2 aga...

Heat return home versus Hornets

Two teams going in opposite directions, the Miami Heat and New Orleans Hornets, meet up Monday night in South Florida. Miami (17-8 straight-up, 12-13 against the NBA spread) st...

Thunder host Cavaliers

The Oklahoma City Thunder have endured years of struggles against the Cleveland Cavaliers, losing four games in a row outright. They haven't won a game since January 2008 here i...

Grizzlies end trip at LA Clippers

The Memphis Grizzlies have a 3-0 NBA spread record in the first three games of their present road trip, with the ‘under’ going 2-1. Lionel Hollins’ squad finishes its jou...

Hornets top 'under' squad

While most of the focus concerning the National Basketball Association is on marquee teams such as Boston and the Los Angeles Lakers, there is money to be made by keeping tabs o...

Spurs host Atlanta Hawks

The best team in the Western Conference hosts the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night and we’re not talking about the Los Angeles Lakers. The San Antonio Spurs (18-3 straight-up, 1...

NBA TNT doubleheader

Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers (NA) C’s Missing Key Players? The Celtics have won seven straight games entering Wednesday’s tilt against Denver, but the news isn...

Nets next in line for hot Dallas Ma...

The Dallas Mavericks have won 10 straight games, with a 7-3 NBA spread record in that stretch. Rick Carlisle’s crew plays its second straight home game as part of Thursday’...

Orlando Magic at Trail Blazers

East meets West as the Orlando Magic take on the Portland Trail Blazers this Thursday night in the first of two meetings this season. Tip-off from the Rose Garden in Portland is...

Heat seek revenge at Utah Jazz

Back on November 9, the Miami Heat were beaten by the Utah Jazz 116-114 at home in overtime in one of the more stunning NBA betting battles so far this season. Since that point,...

Rockets host Pistons

Two teams sitting in the basement of their respective divisions meet Tuesday when the Detroit Pistons begin a three-game road trip with a stop in Houston to play a Rockets squad...

Miami Heat at Bucks

Miami begins a four-game road trip with Monday's matchup at Milwaukee. The Heat (13-8 straight up, 8-13 against the spread) appear to have finally hit their stride, entering thi...

Memphis Grizzlies at Denver Nuggets

Rudy Gay and the Memphis Grizzlies pay a visit to the Pepsi Center in Denver this Sunday for the first of three meetings this season with the Nuggets. Game time is set for 5 p.m...

NBA Home/Away Update

Atlanta is 1-9 ATS on its home court, but a sparkling 7-2 ATS on the road. NBA betting action is roughly a fifth of the way over in the 2010-11 season, and here at Don Best we'...

Jazz, Mavericks collide

A pair of seven-game winning streaks will be on the line Friday night when the Dallas Mavericks travel to Utah for a Western Conference matchup with the Jazz. Both clubs extende...

76ers beating line, not foes

By Bill Ordine Despite a rare two-game win streak, the 76ers are likely headed for a record similar to last season's disappointing 27-55. Unfortunately for their fans, they're ...

Heat at Cavaliers

As Cavs fans filed out of Quicken Loans Arena following Wednesday’s loss to the Boston Celtics, the public address announcer reminded them what was next. “The Miami Heat ...

Warriors and Suns on TNT

Two teams in the middle of the Pacific Division standings collide for the first time Thursday night when Phoenix visits Golden State. Both squads trail the defending champion L...

LeBron James in Cleveland

The return of prodigal son LeBron James to Cleveland brings huge national attention to an NBA Thursday night. James brings his Miami Heat to his home state to face the Cavalier...

Bobcats at Hornets

The Charlotte Bobcats might be missing their top two scorers when they travel to New Orleans for a Wednesday night matchup against the Hornets. Starting forward Gerald Wallace,...

Celtics after revenge at Cavs

Back on October 27, the Boston Celtics suffered a terrible 95-87 defeat at Quicken Loans Arena to a new-look Cleveland Cavaliers squad. Head coach Doc Rivers referred to this te...

Heat regroup versus Wizards

The Miami Heat hope a recent players-only meeting turns their season around as they host the Washington Wizards on Monday night. Miami dropped to 9-8 straight-up and 5-12 again...

Suns look to burn Nuggets

A three-game winning streak for the Denver Nuggets will be on the line on Sunday night in the second of a five-game homestand, as the Phoenix Suns pay a visit to Pepsi Arena for...

Miami Heat up next for Dallas Maver...

When the Miami Heat walked off the court of the Amway Center in Orlando on Wednesday night, they knew that something really had to change or they wouldn't be able to win the NBA...

Spurs, Mavericks meet in San Antonio

he San Antonio Spurs have won 12 straight, with an 8-3-1 NBA spread record in that stretch. Gregg Popovich’s squad puts its streak on the line in Friday’s home matchup agai...

Thunder rolling 'over' NBA betting ...

If you like to bet 'overs' in the NBA, hopefully you have been following the Oklahoma City Thunder who lead the league with an 11-3 mark to the high side. That is by far the be...

Jazz host Hornets

The Utah Jazz are 0-6 against the NBA spread in their last six home games versus teams with a winning record, but 7-1 ATS in their last eight meetings against the New Orleans Ho...

Wizards, Sixers square up on Tuesday

Some NBA teams have enough depth to overcome injuries to their star players, at least in the short term. However, Washington and Philadelphia are not among those squads. The Wi...

Sizzling Spurs host hot Magic

The San Antonio Spurs have a 7-2-1 NBA spread record in their present 10-game winning streak. Gregg Popovich’s squad plays its second straight home game in Monday’s matchup...

Kings host New Orleans Hornets

Southwest Division leading New Orleans (10-1 straight up, 8-2-1 against the spread) begins a four-game West Coast road trip with Sunday’s matchup versus Sacramento (4-7 SU, 3-...

Clippers versus NY Knicks

The Los Angeles Clippers have dropped eight straight contests, with a 4-4 NBA spread record in that stretch. Vinny Del Negro’s club looks to end its slide in Saturday’s hom...

NBA Early Trends

The National Basketball Association’s regular season is less than a month old, but there are already some useful betting trends popping up on the pro hardwood. Most teams aro...

Thunder at Celtics

The Oklahoma City Thunder look for revenge Friday night when they get an early NBA betting rematch at the Boston Celtics. This is the last regular season meeting of the year bet...

Spurs go into Utah

The San Antonio Spurs have won eight straight contests, with an NBA spread record of 5-2-1 in that stretch. Gregg Popovich’s crew travels for Friday’s matchup against the U...

Nuggets battle Trail Blazers

Coming into play on Wednesday night, the Northwest Division standings couldn't possibly get any tighter. There is only one game separating first place and fourth place at this p...

Magic and Suns Tip Thursday

The Phoenix Suns could be a little weary Thursday when they travel to Orlando to play the Magic during the first half of a TNT doubleheader. The Suns will be coming off a Wednes...

NBA rematch for Hornets, Mavericks

Coming into play on Monday night, the New Orleans Hornets were the only team in the NBA that didn't have a loss to their credit. That was all stopped at the American Airlines Ce...

Rockets host Bulls

The Chicago Bulls will begin a season-high seven-game road excursion Tuesday night with a stop in Houston to play the Rockets. Chicago enters the contest riding a three-game win...

Hornets take untainted record to D...

As they say down in Bayou Country, "Laissez les bon temps roulez!" The good times are indeed rolling for the New Orleans Hornets who remained the lone unbeaten team in the stan...

Suns at Lakers

Don’t write off Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash just yet. Nash is 36 and no longer has Amare Stoudamire to play pick-and-roll with, but he still can be great. The two-time leagu...

NBA betting totals level in early g...

When it comes to choosing a hotel to stay at there's an old adage that is still true today: Don't get sucked in by the lobby. The 2010-11 NBA season is roughly in the lobby sta...

Thunder host Trail Blazers

It was only last Thursday when the Oklahoma City Thunder took down the Portland Trail Blazers in overtime 107-106 at the Rose Garden to make a big statement to the Northwest Div...

Hawks host Jazz

A three-game winning streak might not seem that impressive in the NBA, especially when a team plays 82 regular season contests. But the Utah Jazz will take a very unusual three-...

Heat hope to burn Boston

The Boston Celtics and Miami Heat have an early rematch when their intense rivalry continues in the Sunshine State on Thursday night. Both teams are coming off losses. Miami is...

Lakers chalk at Nuggets

The second half of Thursday night’s TNT pro basketball doubleheader will be must-see TV for those tuning in to watch the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers attempt to start...

Thunder play host to Philadelphia 7...

The Philadelphia 76ers have a 3-1 spread record in their last four games, with the ‘total’ splitting at 2-2. Doug Collins’ crew plays its second straight road game in Wed...

Jazz and Heat top Tuesday NBA card

The Utah Jazz have a 2-4 NBA spread record in their first six games, with the ‘total’ splitting at 3-3. Jerry Sloan’s squad begins a four-game road trip with Tuesday’s ...

Lakers heavy NBA odds favorites vs....

Haven't the Minnesota Timberwolves already had it difficult enough? They are 1-6 straight up and against the NBA spread on the season and haven't even stuck within double digits...

Lakers are 7-0, but don't bet on a ...

Seven down, 75 to go ... With the Los Angeles Lakers 7-0 after walking on the Portland Trail Blazers, a real team that won 50 games last season, as if they were Warriors or D...

Nuggets look to run with Bulls

Last November, the Denver Nuggets swept the Chicago Bulls in two games in a span of 11 nights. Now, just about one year later, the two teams will lock horns again, this time in ...

Boston Celtics at Oklahoma City Thu...

The Boston Celtics have their toughest road test of the season when they visit Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night. This starts a difficult four-game t...

Lakers versus Raptors

Those who believed the Los Angeles Lakers would be suffering a bit of a hangover from playing deep into the postseason en route to capturing last season’s NBA title need to re...

Bulls take on Knicks

The Chicago Bulls look for their third win in a row when they host the New York Knicks on Thursday night. Chicago is 2-1 both straight-up and against the spread. An opening los...

Hornets visit reeling Houston Rockets

The New Orleans Hornets have a 3-0 NBA spread record in their three victories to start the season, with the ‘under’ also going 3-0. Monty Williams’ crew puts its streak o...

Spurs and Suns duel

On Wednesday night, NBA betting fans will get to dive right into another great clash in the Western Conference, as the Phoenix Suns will play host to the San Antonio Spurs in a ...

Knicks vs. Orlando

The 2010 NBA betting campaign continues Tuesday night on the hallowed court of Madison Square Garden where the New York Knicks will play host to the Orlando Magic. Orlando has ...

Grizzlies battle Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers have a 2-1 NBA spread record in their three-win streak to start the season, with the margin of victory larger in each battle. Phil Jackson’s defending ...

Blazers in Chicago

NBA betting action in the month of November tips off at the United Center, as the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers have at it in a game that should be a great barometer ...

Thunder home against Jazz

After starting the season with consecutive victories against Central Division squads, the up-and-coming Oklahoma City Thunder roll home Sunday to host a Utah Jazz team searching...

Lakers in unfamiliar role

The Miami Heat absolutely dominated NBA offseason news with the free agent acquisitions of LeBron James and Chris Bosh. Oddsmakers immediately made them the NBA favorites and th...

Spurs look to extend dominance of H...

The San Antonio Spurs seem to always be everyone's dark horse pick to win the NBA title. However, they were a very mediocre team in SW Division play last year, going just 9-7 SU...

Heat host Magic

The defending Southeast Division champion Orlando Magic will participate in the second part of a back-to-back situation Friday night when they make the short trip to Miami to me...

Jazz host Suns

The Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz will have something in common when they hook up Thursday night in the second half of an NBA doubleheader on TNT. Both clubs were eliminated by the...

Bulls at Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder open their season with Wednesday’s home matchup against the Chicago Bulls, who are 4-0 ATS in their last four trips to the Sooner State. Both squads...

Trail Blazers at Clippers

Last season was the year that the Portland Trail Blazers finally came into their own and made the playoffs in the rough and tumble Western Conference. The 2010-11 NBA betting ca...

Heat and Celtics tip-off

The much-hyped Miami Heat start the NBA season, and their ‘championship or bust’ campaign, when they visit the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Bookmaker.com has the game a...

Central Division Total Predictions

Chicago Bulls 2009-10 record: 41-41 straight up, 42-38-2 against the spread 2010-11 season win total: 46.5 With LeBron James taking his circus to South Beach, the Bul...

Miami getting more futures action t...

The Boston Celtics are the defending Eastern Conference champion and were oh-so-close to their record 18th banner, so why is there so little buzz coming out of Beantown? The bi...

Lakers total wins set at 57

The Los Angeles Lakers amassed 57 wins during the 2009-10 regular-season campaign en route to capturing the NBA title for the second consecutive season. But those wins could be ...

Atlantic Division Total Wins

Boston Celtics 2009-10: 50-32 straight up, 33-47-2 against the spread 2010-11 season win total: 54.5 It won’t be easy selling tickets for a team that has all but ...

NBA Northwest Division Preview

Oklahoma City Thunder 2009-10 record: 50-32 straight up, 48-34 against the spread 2010-11 season win total: 50.5 This team has grown up faster than TV's Ben Seaver, bu...

NBA futures betting

The Miami Heat are the favorites to win the NBA title. The Heat added LeBron James and Chris Bosh to go along with Dwyane Wade. Miami is plus 175 at SBG. The two-time defendi...

NBA Western Conference Odds

Oklahoma City Thunder (+600) The Thunder finished eighth in the conference last season and now all of a sudden they jump to the second choice behind Kobe’s Crew to win th...

Lakers eager to see what Heat have

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers can only chuckle when they acknowledge the story line for the upcoming NBA season. At least at the start, it's a...

Is West still the best?

All eight teams reaching the Western Conference playoffs last season had winning percentages of .600 or better. By comparison, only four Eastern Conference squads attained those...

Miami tops conference odds

Miami averaged 96.5 PPG last season without Chris Bosh and LeBron James. Making future book odds in any sport is a difficult task, but creating numbers when one of the favo...

Power shift in East

Four of the five lowest future book odds to capture the NBA title have been assigned to Eastern Conference teams. Those numbers are courtesy of Pete Korner, who makes the bettin...

Heat favored to win title

The anticipation of the LeBron James free agency landing escalated as high as the Seinfeld series finale. ...

Favorite to win MVP

LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are considered the two best players in the NBA but oddsmakers list Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant as the top choice to win the NBA’s Most Valuable...

Van Gundy says Heat will break seas...

ESPN TV analyst Jeff Van Gundy told the Miami Herald that the superstar-laden Miami Heat will break a handful of significant NBA records this season. ...

NBA games to circle on your calendar

Oct. 26: Miami Heat at Boston Celtics (+1) Sensory overload at the TD Garden, where a black guy with an Irish name starts to close out his...

NBA Betting: Miami tops conference ...

NBA Betting: Miami tops conference odds wade, bosh, james Miami averaged 96.5 PPG last season witho...