Basketball betting has the Los Angeles Lakers favored on Sunday as they host the New Orleans Hornets. It should be an entertaining game between two of the top teams in the Western Conference. NBA betting hasn’t been profitable on the Lakers this season even though they are winning games straight up. Basketball betting has this game as the first of three on the road for the Hornets as they face the Clippers tomorrow.
In this series the Lakers have won six of the last ten against New Orleans Hornets but they are just 4-6 against the NBA betting odds. The teams met four times a year ago in basketball betting and the Lakers won three of the four but they were just 2-2 against the NBA betting pointspread. The strange thing about the four games is that the road team covered the basketball betting number in each game. The Lakers actually lost outright at home to the Hornets last year 116-105 and while they won the other game 115-111 they did not cover the 8.5 points in basketball betting. Both games in Los Angeles between the two teams went over in NBA betting.
New Orleans is led by point guard Chris Paul but they have other players who can make an impact in basketball betting including David West and new addition Emeka Okafor. The Hornets have struggled somewhat early in the season but should be a force in basketball betting throughout the season.
The Lakers are a fun team to watch but they are not a fun team to wager on in basketball betting. They are always overpriced and that has meant real trouble to those taking them in basketball betting. The Lakers have been winning straight up but not covering the basketball betting odds. They have been without Pau Gasol this season and that has hurt and now they are looking at an injury to Andrew Bynum. Kobe is off to a great start as usual but the Lakers have not been able to cover the big basketball betting numbers. The Lakers are still popular though in basketball betting because they are the defending champs and have one of the best players in the league in Kobe Bryant. Making a wager on them has been a losing proposition so far this season so that is something to keep in mind for this matchup against the Hornets on Sunday.