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The NBA is a great league for basketball betting fans and our sportsbook at SBG Global offers superb NBA betting options. Basketball betting is a bit different than other sports because there are so many games on the board during the typical 82-game season. Keep in mind that the NBA betting season has different parts. Betting on NBA games at SBG is one of the most popular activities fans enjoy because of all the opportunities to win it delivers for hoops fanatics.
You have the early part of the season with teams feeling each other out, the main part of the season when teams play the bulk of their games, and the NBA playoffs where NBA basketball betting is somewhat different with each team playing up to seven games against the other. We definitely need to handicap each one of these parts differently. By doing this, you will be able to fully understand each team’s weaknesses and strengths and this will educate and make you wiser before you bet on NBA.
We have to change our ratings and our feelings about teams as they move from one part of the season to another. Some basketball betting players will wait out the first couple of weeks of the season and let the dust settle before jumping headfirst into the pro basketball betting season. So if you start betting on them too soon without properly handicapping them, you might end up committing NBA betting sabotage for yourself.
You don’t have to wait to start betting on NBA basketball but be aware that things change throughout the season. Futures betting odds for the NBA may be updated weekly or daily depending on matchups, injuries, and team trends. Betting on NBA games can look one way one week, and completely shift for the next week depending on these and other important and relevant factors.
You always want to be aware of the different philosophies of teams, and coaches as you look at basketball betting. Sometimes basketball betting gamblers look only at the results, not necessarily the strength of schedule and other intangibles that can be important. Don’t make that mistake. This is the one tip that you want to keep in mind before you bet on NBA. We have seen many people make that mistake every year as they precipitate their decisions before analyzing what is going on in the season.
Look beyond just the final score and consider other factors like travel, injuries, scheduling, revenge, etc. as you look at the basketball betting lines. Take a look at the matchups as you examine the basketball betting line each day.
If you take into consideration more than just the final score you can win money at basketball betting this season. So for even more help winning at pro basketball betting, read our analysis of games, teams, and matchups below. This will be your most intelligent move.
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Spurs on the Brink of Elimination
Like a fisherman standing in the east coast of Japan, the San Antonio Spurs are staring disaster right in the face, even if they are the betting on basketball favorites (-145) versus the OKC Thunder for game 6 of their series on Thursday. That night, their season could end as abruptly as an aposiopetic sentence. The Spurs have defended Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant as well as any is ever going to, but those two must have enabled the NBA Jam “always on fire” cheat code, because the Thunder lead the series 3-2 and may wrap things up at Cheesecake Energy Arena.
Stephen Curry Outplays Damian Lillard in Return to Action
MVP Stephen Curry and not-VP Damian Lillard went toe to toe in Game 4 of their second-round playoff series on Monday, but Curry’s sneakers which house his toes cost more than $500. It was a battle of the league's best point guard versus the league’s second best point guard, and Lillard gave Curry a run for his money for the entirety of the game – regulation time, that is. When the match went into overtime, Curry just said screw this noise. He scored the first 12 Warriors points in OT and set an NBA record of 17 in the extra quarter on his way to scoring 40 points as the Warriors defeated the Blazers, 132-125, to take a 3-1 series lead. The Warriors will have a chance to wrap up on Wednesday at home, where online betting odds favor them -1100 to +700.
Are the Cavaliers the New Sports Betting Favorites?
With the Conference Finals right around the corner and with Cleveland sweeping their second straight playoff series; sports betting fans should begin to wonder if the Cavaliers are better than the Warriors right now. Let’s look at the cold facts: The Cavaliers are on an 8-0 winning streak and they are comfortably waiting for an opponent in the Easter Conference Finals, for a second straight year.
Heat Drew first blood but Raptors respond in Kind
At the time they weren’t online betting favorites (the tables have turned, though), so it was a surprise when the Miami Heat figuratively drew first blood by winning game 1 of their series versus the Raptors at Toronto. Who would have thought, thought, that the Raptors would draw literal blood in game2? It was an accident, of course – DeMar DeRozan brought his elbow up and busted Goran Dragic lip. Or maybe it was Dragic who brought his head down in the way of DeRozan’s elbow; he does have a weird tendency to get his front tooth knocked out – the string and doorknob method may not be well known in Slovenia.
Cavaliers massacre Atlanta Hawks, Oakley disses Barkley
When betting on basketball is as one-sided as the Cleveland Cavaliers made game 2 of their NBA playoffs second round series against the Atlanta Hawks, it’s always refreshing when extracurricular occurrences shake things up a bit. For example, Charles Oakley and Charles Barkley are clearly paying tribute to the late, great Prince – specifically one if his biggest hits – by reviving their 1999 feud. And it was about time, too; according to the 7 Year Rule, they were able to rehash this particular storyline since 2006. It all started with the Cavs’ dissection of the Hawks on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingWarriors (minus Curry) still online betting favs
Having a player of the enormous talent of Steph Curry would make even the L.A. Lakers online betting darlings. But not having him available for the past five games appears to only have strengthened the Golden State Warriors this season. Not having their superstar player gave this team a chance to shine together as a unit, all the while showcasing that individually they are a pretty damn good bunch of basketball players.
Portland think they know answers, GS change questions
When the Portland Trailblazers think they know the answers, basketball betting favorites the Golden State Warriors change the questions. The Blazers have learned the hard way that you don’t throw rocks at a man with a machine gun. The Warriors are so quick, they could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind them. They are so fast they could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark. The Warriors don't need to know how tough they are to know how tough they are.
Continue ReadingOnline Betting Preview of Heat vs. Raptors: Game 2
A crazy game 1 between Miami and Toronto its on the books, we now move to game 2, and see from an online betting perspective of what to expect.
Continue ReadingThunder ties series, Spurs whine about alleged “foul”
The Oklahoma City Thunder has made me a very happy man – though I’m not even a basketball batting person, and yes, I’m aware of the irony – by winning Game 2 of their series at San Antonio, tying the series 1-1. And to top it all off, Manu Ginobili got a chestful of elbow courtesy of Dion Waiters. Obviously, San Antonio are blaming the shameful 98-97 defeat at home on this supposedly controversial “no-call.”
Faux Canadian pride aside, Raptors favorites versus Heat
The Toronto Raptors (-200) are basketball betting favorites against the Miami Heat (+170). Unlike the rest of the teams in the NBA playoffs, the Raptors have not just one city, but an entire country pulling for them – theoretically speaking. Canadian sports fans sustained quite a blow this year as not one Canadian hockey team made the NHL playoffs.