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To add some excitement to what otherwise could be a boring time in the NBA, the in-season tournament was created. I guess it was a success, at least that’s what a number of players and coaches are saying. But did anyone really notice or pay attention? I can say I didn’t and I don’t believe the tournament had an impact on NBA betting. But congratulations to the LA Lakers for winning th... 

With the NBA’s in-season tournament coming to a close this weekend with the championship game on Saturday, the rest of the league will take a few days off. However, things ramp back up on Monday, December 11 with 13 games on the schedule to get fans back in the betting mode. Two surprising teams in the West are in action with the Timberwolves visiting New Orleans. Minnesota took over the top spot in the conference by winning 14 of 16 games. Oklahoma City is right behind boasting the best scoring... 

As we venture into the final month of the year and Christmas waiting at the back end, now’s a good time to secure some cash for those gifts that need to be purchased. One week after hitting a three-team NBA parlay my heater ended abruptly with two losses on last week’s ticket. As the Boston Celtics, owners of the league’s best record will tell you, it’s hard to win them all. And the D... 

After a few near-misses in previous Friday night NBA parlays my picks paid off with a three-team winner last week. And after the league takes Thanksgiving off the schedule resumes with 10 games on tap for Friday, Nov. 24 as I look to continue my heater. The slate opens with a matinee featuring the NBA-best Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic and concluding with a Western Conference tilt ... 

Man, if I didn’t have bad luck I’d have no luck at all. For the third straight week I missed hitting a three-team NBA parlay by a point or less, just adding to the frustration. We’re less than a month into the 2023-24 NBA season and already I’ve had enough suspense and drama for an entire campaign. I’ve been dialed in with most of my picks just missing in one of the games. Last week i... 

For the second straight week I missed hitting a three-team NBA parlay by half a point. Looking on the bright side, that’s pretty good since there were plenty of unknowns at the start of the season with a massive amount of turnover throughout the league. We’re just a few weeks and a handful of games into the 2023-24 NBA season with plenty still to figure out. However, we do know that t... 

We’re just a week into the 2023-24 NBA season and already there’s been a huge shakeup. It was a given that James Harden wasn’t going to play for the Philadelphia 76ers after remarks he made regarding the team’s GM. And both parties got their wish with Harden shipped to the LA Clippers for a handful of players and draft picks. Unfortunately neither team is in action on Friday, November 3, so we’ll have to look elsewhere for our NBA parlay picks with seven games to choose from. The Bucks play at home for the fourth time in their first five games when they entertain the New York Knicks. In what is expected to be a crowded top of the Eastern Conference, taking care of business is a big deal. The defending champion Nuggets picked up right where they left off winning their first four games. Denver hosts Luka Doncic and the Mavs on Friday in the first of a four-game homestand. The Nuggets were the best home team in the NBA last season winning 84.6 percent of their games including playoffs with the third-best cover ratio at 60.8 percent. With plenty of uncertainty around the NBA I actually had a decent opener on my first Friday parlay missing out on three-team winner by half a point. I backed the Celtics at -8.5 for their home tilt with Miami only to see them win 119-111. ... 

The first Friday night of the 2023-24 NBA season has 11 games on the slate with preseason Larry O’Brien Trophy favorite Boston Celtics looking to exorcise some demons when hosting the Miami Heat. For those who may have forgotten, and I’m sure many Celtics fans are in that category, the Heat won Game 7 in Boston to win the Eastern Conference and advance to the NBA Finals. Miami became the second No. 8 seed to reach the championship series. Playing for the East title in each of the past two seasons and in three of the last four, the teams have created quite a rivalry and there will certainly be plenty of fireworks. ... 

With the start of the 2023-24 NBA season tipping off in late October the betting markets are open for business. The top two teams on the NBA Championship betting board reside in the Eastern Conference after both made drastic changes to their roster to help get them the ultimate prize. But the Western Conference is more dangerous with the defending champion Denver Nuggets aiming to stave off advances from the new-look Phoenix Suns, LeBron James and the LA Lakers, the Clippers and the Golden State Warriors, who rank on the odds board just behind the East favorites. A team from the Western Conference has hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy five times in the past seven seasons. ... 

Just like they did in each of their first three NBA Playoff series, the Miami Heat won on the road stealing homecourt advantage from the Denver Nuggets. Miami rebounded from a sorry shooting display in Game 1, played strong defense on everybody but Nikola Jokic, and came away with a 111-108 win after Jamal Murray missed a potential game-tying three-pointer at the horn. Miami will host Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday with the series tied 1-1. Miami took care of a few things on Sunday snapping a 7-game overall losing streak to the Nuggets while handing them their first home setback this postseason. Underdogs virtually all this postseason the Heat are catching 2.5-points on the opening line. They’ve been a good bet as the underdog going 9-7 SU and 11-5 ATS. The Nuggets haven’t been nearly as good on the road as they are at home. They had a losing record during the regular year and are 4-3 this postseason, though they’ve won their last three away contests. ... 

Great players don’t stay down for long, and after a disappearing act from stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown in the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals, especially in the fourth quarter, the Boston Celtics need their leading scorers to step up. When the teams met in last year’s conference final the Celtics won three games on the home floor of the Miami Heat and they need a victory on Tuesday in Game 4 of the series. Stopping Jimmy Butler is a key to having success and something Bos... 

Great players don’t stay down for long, and after a disappearing act from stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown in the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals, especially in the fourth quarter, the Boston Celtics need their leading scorers to step up. When the teams met in last year’s conference final the Celtics won three games on the home floor of the Miami Heat and they need a victory on Tuesday in Game 4 of the series. Stopping Jimmy Butler is a key to having success and something Bos... 

Taking care of their own court is a top priority for the Boston Celtics as they tangle with the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night inside TD Garden. Meeting for the third time in four years to determine the conference champion, the teams have created quite a rivalry. And as the only game on the NBA schedule there are plenty of betting options with same game parlays a popular way to go. As we get deeper into the NBA Playoffs sportsbooks up their game with a bigger prop bet menu to go along with the traditional betting options. Bets on players are way of staying in the game and with the games expected to be close we’ll see guys like Miami’s Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo and Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on the floor for more minutes only increasing the likelihood of them putting up big numbers. ... 

A few months ago just reaching the NBA Playoffs seemed like a longshot for the Los Angeles Lakers. A few roster adjustments at the trade deadline put the Lakers on the right path and they’ve been one of the best since. Including their play-in tournament win over Minnesota the Lakers are 9-4 since the conclusion of the regular season and will face the best team in the Western Conference finals after knocking off the defending champion Golden State Warriors. The Denver Nuggets sat atop the standings most of the season finishing 10 games better than the Lakers and homecourt advantage could be huge. The Nuggets had the second-best home record in the NBA during the regular season and they are a perfect 6-0 at home during the postseason with five payouts. Both their wins over LA during the season came in Denver by double figures. The Lakers are catching 4.5-points on the opening line. ... 

The odds of winning a NBA Playoffs series when trailing three games to one are slim. However, the reigning champion Golden State Warriors and New York Knicks kept their chances alive by winning on Wednesday and will once again attempt to stave off elimination in their respective Game 6 on Friday, May 12. He had only four points in 20 minutes in Golden State’s 121-106 victory... 

The Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns will need to win on the road if they wish to advance in the 2023 NBA Playoffs. Both teams have a chance to do that on Tuesday, May 9 in Game 5 of their respective series with betting options for every game available at BookMaker. Boston had a glorious opportunity to take a stranglehold in their East semifinal with Philly instead fallin... 

The second-round of the NBA Playoffs continue on Friday, May 5 with a couple of pivotal Game 3s airing on ESPN. In the Eastern Conference the Boston Celtics look to regain homecourt advantage after a troubling Game 1 loss. Playing without league MVP Joel Embiid the Sixers stole one against the defending conference champs behind 45 points from James Harden. If Boston didn’t refocus after that setback they better do it soon since Embiid is ready to return. Many had the Phoenix Suns as a favorite to win the Western Conference following the acquisition of Kevin Durant. They may still advance but they’ll have to overcome a 2-0 series deficit to the Denver Nuggets. Since no team has ever won a series when losing the first three games, Friday’s contest can be tucked into the must-win category. ... 

The Golden State Warriors’ trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green don’t have many more playoff runs in them – at least as teammates. Lakers forward LeBron James has fewer runs with Father Time paying a visit. So, fittingly I suppose, the Warriors and Lakers meet in the second round of the NBA Playoffs with Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series ... 

With the other half of the Western Conference bracket settled for round 2 of the NBA Playoffs, the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers can advance with home wins in Game 6 on Friday, April 28. The teams took different routes to get to this point with the defending champs winning three in a row after dropping the first two games to the Sacramento Kings. The Lakers, m... 

With the NBA Playoffs in full swing three teams have a chance to join the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round by closing out their opening round series on Tuesday. The Minnesota Timberwolves avoided extinction and a sweep by knocking off the Nuggets at Target Center on Sunday breathing some life back into a club that dropped each of the first three games by at least nine ... 

Don’t look now but the defending champion Golden State Warriors got hot at the right time improving their odds of winning the Western Conference and returning to the NBA Finals for the seventh time in nine seasons. The Dubs won their final three regular season games with the offense getting tuned up for the playoffs. They scorched Portland for 55 first quarter points in a 157-101 rout in the finale and averaged over 137 points during the winning streak. More impressively was the fact that they w... 

Six teams in the NBA finished the regular season with more than 50 wins and four of them reside in the Eastern Conference. After losing the Finals last season to Golden State, the Boston Celtics made sure they’d have another crack at winning the O’Brien Trophy by holding down the best record in the league for most of the season. A late surge by the Bucks, however, moved them ahead of everyone and into the position of NBA champion favorite. With the top four clubs each having at least 51 wins, od... 

The final day of the NBA regular season is upon us with all 30 teams in action on Sunday, April 9 giving us a bonanza of NBA parlay options. And right now I’m feeling good since last weekend was delightful cashing a three-team parlay. It’s at times like this that you don’t want the season to end. The winning ticket didn’t make up for the many weeks of losses, but it sure helps. I... 

Well, the betting gods met me at the front door after I hit a three-team NBA parlay a few weeks ago. I haven’t come close to replicating that and I’m running out of time with the regular season concluding this weekend. You have to consider how teams locked into a playoff spot are going to handle the remaining few games. Will they rest players ahead of the postseason or keep them ... 

After what we saw on Sunday night, it might be best to back off of big favorites for a while. For the first time in over three decades, two teams that were underdogs of 15 points or more by the NBA betting odds won outright. The San Antonio Spurs knocked off the Sacramento Kings in overtime as a 16-point underdog, and the Portland Trail Blazers edged the Minnesota Timberwolves de...