{"id":10224,"date":"2009-04-17T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2009-04-17T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T20:08:53","slug":"playoff-betting-lines-beted-sportsbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/playoff-betting-lines-beted-sportsbook\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Lines: Playoff Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">betED.com loaded with NBA Playoffs bets<\/h2>\n<p>The 2009 <a title=\"NBA Playoffs betting\" href=\"\/nba\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>NBA Playoffs<\/strong><\/a> get started Saturday and betED.com has odds for all first-round Series, opening-games, and Championship and Conference winners.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champion Boston Celtics get things started Saturday when they host the Chicago Bulls (12:30 pm ET, ESPN).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact the Celtics will be without all-star forward Kevin Garnett, Boston is a -600 favorite to win the best-of-seven series in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\/promland\/0516\/0516GEN.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>NBA Playoffs First-Round Series Prices<\/strong><\/a>, and an 8.5-point favorite to win the opener in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>NBA Betting Lines<\/strong><\/a>. The Bulls are a +400 Series underdog.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Doc Rivers told a Boston radio station Thursday that a knee injury will likely prevent Garnett from helping the Celtics defend their NBA Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers, who finished No. 1 in the Eastern Conference and in the league, are a whopping -4000 favorite to win their series with the Detroit Pistons, and a 12-point favorite to win Game 1 on Saturday. The Pistons are at +2500 odds to pull off a series upset.<\/p>\n<p>In the Battle of Texas, the San Antonio Spurs are a -145 favorite to win their series against the Dallas Mavericks. The Spurs are a 4-point favorite in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>The action gets started Sunday with the Los Angeles Lakers, the top team in the Western Conference, hosting the Utah Jazz. The Lakers are a -2500 favorite to win the best-of-seven series, and an 11-point favorite to win the opener.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Orlando Magic host the Philadelphia 76ers, with the Magic a -1000 favorite to win the series and a 9.5-point favorite to win Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\/promland\/0516\/0516GEN.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>NBA Championship odds<\/strong><\/a> at betED.com, the top five favorites to win the title are: Lakers (+130); Cavaliers (+160); Celtics (+750); Magic (+1200); and Spurs (+1800).<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"betED.com Review\" href=\"\/sportsbooks\/beted-review\/\" target=\"_self\">Check out betED.com for all the NBA Playoffs betting odds.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/8d0e43dd-2c74\/promland\/0516\/0516GEN.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NBA\/NBAGEN1M350X150.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 NBA Playoffs get started Saturday and betED has NBA championship lines updated, futures, plus first-round Series, opening-games, and Conference winning team odds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[159,13029,13028,1376,13033,13032,747,749,13031,13030,13027,13026,11870,11869],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-beted","tag-beted-nba-lines","tag-beted-nba-odds","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-nba-championship-lines","tag-nba-championship-odds","tag-nba-lines","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-playoffs-betting-lines","tag-nba-playoffs-betting-odds","tag-nba-playoffs-first-round-series-lines","tag-nba-playoffs-first-round-series-odds","tag-round-1-lines","tag-round-1-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}