Sportsbook Website – Bulls Suffer Major Injury. The NBA regular season begins later this month and before you make your wager on the Chicago Bulls at the sportsbook website you should be aware that the Bulls will be missing a key player for the first month of the season.
All-Star Carlos Boozer broke his right hand and will be out about eight weeks which would mean he would miss the first month of the season. His absence is a huge loss and will affect Chicago’s chances of winning vs. the point spread at the online sportsbook.
Stupid Injury – Boozer wasn’t even hurt on the basketball court. Sources say that he tripped over a bag in his house and fell and broke the fifth metacarpal bone in his hand. The Bulls are paying Boozer a lot of money and this injury really hurts their cause. Chicago signed Boozer to a five-year deal worth about $75 million dollars. Boozer spent the last six years in Utah and averaged 19.5 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. Boozer is a player who can impact a game and he can always be counted on for points and rebounds on a nightly basis.
Chicago’s Lineup – The Bulls are going to hope that Joakim Noah can pick up the slack with Boozer being out but that seems unlikely. Noah is still not a premier scoring option. Taj Gibson could replace Boozer in the starting lineup and he is nothing special either. He averaged just nine points and 7.5 rebounds a game a year ago. Gibson definitely is not a player who makes much of an impact against the odds at the SBG online sportsbook.
Low Scoring Games – Without Boozer’s scoring the Bulls are going to have to win with defense. Chicago still has Derek Rose and he is a great player but there is simply not another great option with Boozer out of the lineup. They have role players like Ronnie Brewer, Kyle Korver and CJ Watson but they are complementary players, not stars. Chicago will have to hope that new head coach Tom Thibodeau has a good defensive strategy to win games. Thibodeau is a defense-first coach so you have to expect low scoring games early in the season. Taking the under at the sportsbook website in Chicago games could be worth a serious look.