• Breaking Sport Betting News NBA Lockout is Over| Leave a Comment

    While you were drinking away your Friday night, the NBA owners and players were making a deal, and NBA betting is back! NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season on Christmas Day. NBA commissioner David Stern stated the obvious when [...]

  • Struggling Lakers Seek Redemption After Break| Leave a Comment

    The Los Angeles Lakers have struggled of late, at least in comparison to the lofty expectations fans and NBA bettors had of them prior to the season. As reigning back-to-back champions, the bar has been set reasonably high. According to Bodog’s online sportsbook, they have 4/1 odds of winning the NBA championship despite their recent [...]

  • Lakers Look to Restore Confidence with Big Road Trip| Leave a Comment

    You won’t find very many people sympathizing with the back-to-back champion Los Angeles Lakers when it comes to their midseason struggles this year, but this week, more than ever, the club has the opportunity to reverse the frightening new trend. After a seven-game win streak at the beginning of January, the Lakers have looked uncharacteristically [...]

  • New Orleans Hornets Make Case For Elite Status In West| Leave a Comment

    The New Orleans Hornets will head west this week in defense of a recent hot streak that has helped them ascend the Western Conference standings. The rise to the top of the pile wouldn’t be the first time this season. After a torrid 2010-11 start in November the Hornets sloughed off as the year progressed. [...]

  • Heat overshadowing rest of NBA as season approaches| 1 Comment

    Fittingly one game on the NBA schedule has the first few hours of opening night all to itself. The Miami Heat opens with what is expected to be a championship season, playing the much-hyped reigning Eastern Conference champions, the Boston Celtics. Miami Heat as Favorites and to win odds The Heat dominated the offseason headlines [...]

  • Beat the Heat or Ride the Wave for up to $200 in Bonuses| Leave a Comment

    Not since Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls dynasty was broken up has there been a more highly anticipated team to watch in the NBA than this season’s Miami Heat. Bodog Sportsbook has come up with a unique way for you to bet either for or against this Eastern Conference powerhouse: “Beat the Heat.” Here’s how it [...]

  • The Portland Trail Blazers Odds – Heading into the 2010 Season| Leave a Comment

    The 2009-10 season wasn’t a particularly memorable year for the Portland Trail Blazers. While their record was quite respectable, it was the disappointments that really left negative marks on the Trail Blazers’ psyche. The team now has to make serious decisions in order to make themselves competitive enough to at least reach the playoffs without [...]

  • Houston Rockets Yao Expects to Be in Shape for the Upcoming Season| Leave a Comment

    Just recently, Yao Ming, the All-Star center for NBA’s Houston Rockets, has been given a go signal by his doctors after undergoing a complicated foot surgery in July of 2009. According to Tom Clanton, the team’s doctor, Yao is now cleared to “resume his basketball activities.” Yao’s teammates were confident all along that he would [...]

  • NBA News: Turnovers Galore for the US Team| Leave a Comment

    While U.S. basketball still holds the esteemed position of being one of the best showcases of this sport, the most recent practice game of the U.S Team has shown that there is still much work to be done before the start of the World Championships less than two weeks from now. This game did not [...]

  • Will Shaquille O’Neal Fit In with the Boston Celtics?| Leave a Comment

    The recent signing of NBA star center Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal to the Boston Celtics should be regarded as a move that should benefit both the Celtics and O’Neal. One of the league’s most successful franchises wasted no time in wrapping up this deal. What’s interesting was that only a veteran’s minimum salary was given to [...]

  • Dwight Howard Not Bothered at All by the Big Three?| Leave a Comment

    Putting the three big players in one team surely caused a lot fuzz in the NBA community.  LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh are the Big Three in Miami that strong contenders like Orlando Magic will have to defeat if they want to win the Eastern Conference finals.  But Dwight Howard, defensive player of [...]

  • Kobe Successfully Undergoes Knee Surgery| Leave a Comment

    After hyper-extending his knee during the exhibition game against the Charlotte Bobcats, Kobe Bryant was prepped and just came out of arthroscopic surgery successfully. The two time-NBA scoring champion did not play for the second half of the game. Lakers has announced later on that he will be having his knee re-examined, thereby not allowing [...]

  • Some of the Biggest Off-season Stories in NBA History| Leave a Comment

    When the LA Lakers came back from a 3-2 series deficit against the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA Finals, some were confident that the Celtics would go on to win it all.  The Lakers had something else in mind, however, and they were able to beat the Celtics in the last two games of [...]

  • Great Players Who Didn’t Make the Cut for NBA Draft 2010| 1 Comment

    This year’s NBA season just ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning their second championship. The LA Lakers also won last year’s season and are aiming for a “three-peat.”  Their last win was way back in 2002 where they garnered an outstanding “three-peat” for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002. If you are a fan, [...]

  • Lakers Player Updates after the Championship| 1 Comment

    Seeing how Andrew Bynum helped the Lakers clinch their second straight NBA Finals victory, it doesn’t seem like he’s been suffering a right knee injury throughout the playoffs.  But now that hard work has finally paid offer, the 7-foot center is finally having his surgery, but not until celebrating with his team for the momentous [...]

  • Celtics Keeps Their Fingers Crossed for No. 18 at Game 6| Leave a Comment

    There’s no denying the fact that the Big 3 of the Boston Celtics has been the team’s biggest threat, at least when it comes to offense.  Putting together Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett in one team has been the smartest decision the NBA franchise has made in the summer of 2007.  Suddenly, the [...]

  • Lakers Take the Lead in the Finals at 2-1| Leave a Comment

    Lakers’ Derek Fisher was unstoppable in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.  He gave Ray Allen a hard time, made big shots in the final quarter, and made sure that the LA Lakers will lead the series 2-1 after beating the Boston Celtics with a score of 91-84. Lakers coach Phil Jackson can’t help but [...]

  • Betting bonanza when the Celtics and Lakers meet| Leave a Comment

    In the 1980s thanks to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, the Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry helped save the league and sent it to its highest levels of popularity ever. It seemed like those two teams faced off in the NBA Finals every season – but in fact they only played three times with Bird [...]

  • Brilliant Playoffs by Bryant End in Finals| Leave a Comment

    The “rise-up” is no doubt one of the incomparable skills of Kobe Bryant, and even opposing coaches actually recognize this fact. The rise-up The rise-up is Bryant’s signature move on the court wherein a defender is covering him on all sides, blocking his perfect view and keeping him from making a serious drive, but Kobe [...]

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