Freddy Wills was active on Monday with great sports picks. Freddy won on the 49ers and the Oklahoma City Thunder for two POD winners. He is now 14-3 ATS in his last 17 NFL POD’s and 14-6-1 ATS in his last 21 NBA POD’s.
Lakers (+4) at Nuggets (-4)
(O/U) 212
Tonight at 10:30 PM ET
The Los Angeles Lakers (7-1 SU, 3-5 ATS, 5-3 O/U) beat down one challenger for their Western Conference crown on Thursday. Tonight, they will look to repeat the feat when they take to the floor at the Pepsi Center for a rematch of last season’s Western Conference Finals against the Denver Nuggets (6-3 SU, 4-5 ATS, 5-4 O/U).
Raptors (-4) at Clippers (+4)
(O/U) 204½
Tonight at 10:30 PM ET
The Toronto Raptors (4-4 SU, 4-4 ATS, 5-3 O/U) just can’t find any consistency this season, not a good way for the team to try and hold on to franchise player and impending free agent forward Chris Bosh.
Houston (-4½) at Sacramento (+4½)
(O/U) 206
Tonight at 10:00 PM ET
The Houston Rockets and Sacramento Kings have both gotten off to surprising starts this season, despite predictions by NBA experts everywhere that both ballclubs would struggle immensely.
Bob will not be offering NBA selections until the second week of the season (Monday, November 9), because the teams will be starting to show some form by then.
In Pro Basketball, winning and losing are often not the final criteria in judging a team. When one team plays better in defeat, than another does in winning, you can gain real value by seeing through the misleading results. When handicapping Pro Basketball, some fundamentals and considerations are not just the venue.
Freddy Wills breaks down the Eastern Conference and predicts the #1-#8 playoff seeds! Make sure you take advantage of Freddy’s NBA packages which are discounted $300 until the season starts. Once the season starts, the prices will go up $300! This price changes will take place on Wednesday October 28th.
The NBA draft is in the books and the rookie class of 2009/2010 has already finished playing summer league ball. In another couple of months training camp will be opening and these guys will get to work for real. There are many teams that are hanging their hopes that their top rookie can step in right away and contribute in a big way.
After the 2008 NCAA Basketball season UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green all flirted with the idea of entering their names into the 2008 NBA Draft. Instead, they all decided to return and we all know the end result.
Now it’s time for their next challenge, the NBA. The Big Apple is the location for Thursday’s NBA Draft and all that remains for these four Tar Heels is where they’ll be selected.
The NBA Draft Lottery is a form of socialism designed to help weaker teams get better.
The NBA’s dirty secret is that the lottery can’t do a lot for stupid teams.
That said, not even the Los Angeles Clippers can mess this up.
The Orlando Magic opened as 2 ½-point favorites but it’s a good bet that most bettors will have their action on the Los Angeles Lakers when tip-off rolls around on Sunday.
You can place your bets on potentially the final game of the NBA Season right now on our Live NBA Odds page and follow the latest percentages on each side on the NBA Betting Trends page.
A very nice performance by the Orlando Magic in game 3 has this series at 2-1.
Now as a sports handicapper we need to analyze what does it mean for the upcoming games?
Can the Orlando Magic shoot over 60% for three more games?
Cleveland.com said it best: “It’s time to put the puppets away. There will be no LeBron James-Kobe Bryant NBA Finals.” It looked like a shoo-in for the top two seeds to meet, setting up a Kobe/LeBron Finals.
But once the Eastern Conference Finals began, you could see the Magic were a terrific team that matched up very well with the Cavs.
NBA odds are turning on their head faster than we can say “Rashard Lewis for three.” Rapidly, the dream Lakers/Cavaliers final is becoming a mirage. Can the big guns fight back tonight and tomorrow night in basketball betting?
Lakers vs Nuggets odds: Game 5 tonight at 9:05 p.m. ET
NBA odds: Lakers -5 ½
Below is a look at some of the hottest bets this week, covering an array of different sports and events.
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DENVER NUGGETS
Despite their 105-103 loss in Game 1 on Tuesday night, the Denver Nuggets still got the pointspread win as a 6½-point road underdog. The Nuggets are now 10-0-1 ATS in their eleven NBA playoff games this season.
While UFC 98 odds and Indy 500 odds are at the top of the online sports book list this week, the NBA playoffs are down to the final four and the action tips off on Tuesday. NBA odds have the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers favored in a dream Finals matchup, but the Denver Nuggets and Orlando Magic will be looking to make it interesting.
Cleveland (1) vs. Orlando (3)
Like Republicans seeking the presidential nomination, NBA superstars need to wait patiently for their turn at a shot at the championship. Shaquille O’Neal had to wait, Michael Jordan had to wait, and LeBron James has had to wait. But now everyone in the Association agrees that James’s time has come.
