Keys to Basketball Betting Success - Basketball gambling

There never has been a better time to supplement your income with a little basketball betting at sportsbetting. You know you love sports. You know everything about the players, the coaches and the teams. It's time to use that knowledge to your wallet's benefit and make a few extra bucks.

There are some common mistakes people make when betting. Here I will describe these missteps and how to avoid them.

The most popular betting blunder and the one that costs people the most money is betting with their heart and not their brain. Just because you want a team to win doesn't mean you should put money on them.

So many people bet for their home team even when they know that it is a long-shot victory. These are the easiest games to make money on if you bet with your brain and not your heart. Betting against your favorite team may be difficult for you to do but you know better than anyone if they may struggle against a certain opponent.

Another common mistake is not doing your homework. It is vital to research the ins and outs of the teams involved. Just because you're betting on your favorite team and you think you know them really well, there is always additional research you can do. Knowing how your team fares against certain teams or how they fare on the 2nd night of back to back games is very important in deciding how you place your bets.

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Basketball bet - Big Baby Back In Beantown - NBA Gambling

ESPN is reporting that Glen Davis, aka Big Baby, will be returning to the Boston Celtics next season.

Your sportsbook Boston is listed at +225 to win the Eastern Conference in 2009/10.

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A Basketball Betting Guide To Help You Win

The best way to increase your earnings from betting is to develop a basketball betting guide. Such a guide will help you cut your losses, and increase your earnings. This is precisely how professional bettors operate. They don’t place bets on whims and fancies as is the general belief, but after considerable hard work. In contrast, amateur bettors go with the public mood. They win some, and loose more. So if you want to win you must have your own betting guide. This guide should include the following details:

Know your teams. Go through the newspaper reports carefully. Also listen to the team analysis done by professionals on the TV. Make a list of the strong and weak points of the players in each team, and the performance of teams at home and away. A good guide should cover at least two, if not three, seasons. Check which players are injury-prone and are likely to miss big games. Work out the impact of their absence on team performance. Use an Excel sheet, and make a noting of team ratings by different newspapers, TV channels and websites. Based on this, arrive at you own rating.

Team Motivation: several bets go wrong because the bettor has not evaluated the motivation level of a team to win a game. A team that has already qualified will save its best for the final. It would rest its key players or experiment with new team formations. These are useful strategies that coaches adopt. In contrast, a team that is facing elimination will go the extra mile to win, even if the opposition is full of stars. Team performances are also affected by back to back matches. A team may be too drained to put up its best when made to play a game the next day, and end up loosing to a weaker team. Your guide will alert you to these possibilities.

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Basketball Gambling For Sports Betting Beginners

Looking to get into a little bit of sports betting? Based on the numbers, odds are pretty good that basketball is going to be the sport you bet on. Bookmakers have the numbers to back up the claim that basketball is second only to football in the United States when it comes to the amount of money wagered each year. In fact, the major amateur March Madness tournament each year is the second highest grossing sports event for bookmakers in all of sports (Super Bowl is the first).

There is a lot of money to be made wagering on basketball gambling, whether or college or pro, but in order to stand a chance of breaking even you have to know what you are doing first. This article is a guide for those just starting out in the basketball betting world.

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Hornets-Bobcats Dealing - NCAA Basketball Betting

Citing the AP, NBA.com is reporting that the Charlotte Bobcats are about to trade Emeka Okafor to the New Orleans Hornets for Tyson Chandler.

The Charlotte Bobcats are listed at +240 to win the Eastern Conference next season while the New Orleans Hornets are listed at +1800 to do the same in the West

However, the Hornets also take on the last five years of an escalating, six-year, $72 million contract.

"We have a long-term option for us now at the center position and one we feel we can grow with," Bower said. "We looked at that as an asset, the fact that Emeka is under contract. ... It shows we are interested in improving and we are interested in competing in the Western Conference and we are willing to pay the price."

The Bobcats, meanwhile, unloaded that longer long-term commitment. Chandler would make $12.7 million in a player option in 2010-11, the final season of his deal.

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Basketball Odds -Kidd Re-ups With Mavericks

After losing to the Hornets in the first round of the 2008 playoffs, Avery Johnson was fired, and Rick Carlisle was hired as the new head coach for the Dallas Mavericks. After getting off to a rocky start at 2-7, the Mavericks eventually found themselves with the sixth spot in the western conference playoff bracket for 2009. This was after going 50-32 (ninth consecutive 50+-win season) and about three to four weeks earlier, weren't even sure if they were going to make the eighth and final spot. But a run of 5-1 in their last six regular season games got them to a game over the Hornets for sixth place. Dirk Nowitzki also entered the postseason with a streak of twenty-five consecutive games of scoring 20 or more points, which was ended in the first game of the quarterfinals series verses the arch-rival, San Antonio Spurs.

The Mavericks surprised many people by winning Game 1, 105-97 in San Antonio. The Spurs would come back to win Game 2 though, by twenty-one points, as the series shifted to Dallas, as the two teams had both won a game. Dallas, who had only lost one game at home after the All-Star Break, won both Games 3 and 4 at home, by twenty-one and nine points, 88-67, and 99-90. San Antonio was just trying to win Game 5 to extend the series, but they couldn't do it as the Mavericks eventually took over and won by thirteen, 106-93, clinching the series, as they would get out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 playoffs when they advanced all the way to the Finals.

Point guard Jason Kidd has re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks for three-years at over $25 million reports ESPN.

The Mavs are listed at +1800 to win the Western Conference next season.

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Basketball-Betting On The 2009 NBA Draft

The NBA draft takes place on Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York and a number of prop wagers are available from SPORTSBETTING.com.

Who will go third overall? Will it be UConn’s Hakeem Thabeet, ASU’s James Harden or Spain’s Ricky Rubio (all are at +250) or someone else (+150)?

Where will Stephen Curry go? eighth overall (+300) or ninth (+500)?

How many North Carolina Tar Heels will be taken in the first-round? Three (+100)?

Basketball-Detroit Pistons 2009 Draft Preview

Pistons president Joe Dumars is coming off a disastrous year in which he jettisoned the underrated Flip Saunders for the untested and unproven Michael Curry and compounded that mistake with the ill-conceived Chauncey Billups-Allen Iverson trade.

Gone was Detroit's legendary balance, defensive prowess and chemistry, not to mention the run of six straight trips to the Eastern Conference finals. So, needless to say, this is a big summer for Dumars.


Trading for Iverson did give Dumars plenty of cap space and the team seems to be targeting Chicago sharp-shooter Ben Gordon. As for the draft big man Rasheed Wallace isn't likely to return and Antonio McDyess could also leave via free agency meaning Dumars will be in line for a big body with the 15th overall pick.

Options could include Gonzaga forward Austin Daye and Ohio State Center B.J. Mullens.

Mullens has the size and soft hands to develop into a legit center and help Curry start rebuilding his frontcourt. A number of sources say the Pistons have a promise in place to take Mullens, so if anyone else has designs on the big man, they will have to move up past No. 15.

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NBA Finals MVP Props

With the NBA postseason winding down, it is a good time to take a look at NBA Finals MVP propositions.

As it stands, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the overwhelming favorite at -600 while the Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard is listed at +700.

More options in the 2009 NBA Finals MVP section.

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Magic’s Nelson Expected To Play Game 1

Out with a torn labrum in his right shoulder since early-February, Orlando Magic PG Jameer Nelson went through a full practice on Tuesday and according to teammates, looked good.

While officials are “mum” on the subject, many Orlando players are expecting Nelson to see action in Game 1 on Thursday.

The Magic are 6-point underdogs in that game.

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2009 NBA Final Series Prices

Will Kobe Bryant finally win a title sans Shaquille O’Neal?

After losing to the Boston Celtics in last year’s championship series, Kobe and the Los Angeles Lakers will play Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in this year’s NBA final.

The Lakers are favored at -245 while the Magic are +205.

Cavaliers Cooking At Home

The Cleveland Cavaliers play Game 2 of their playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks tonight listed at -13 with the Total set at 179.

In the last 20 games when Cleveland is listed as a favorite of more than -8, bettors see marginal returns when betting ATS as the Cavs are 11-9 ATS.

However, Cleveland is 19-1 SU and 5-15 on the Over/Under at the same time.

Mavs’ SF Suffers From Ankle Ailment

The Dallas Mavericks lost more than a playoff game last night when they dropped a game to the Denver Nuggets 117-105–Dallas was listed at +6.5–they saw small forward Josh Howard go down with a sprained right ankle.

Howard is listed as day to day.

Atlanta Hawks Flying High

The odds are stacked against the Atlanta Hawks in their series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Atlanta is a +1600 underdog in series price betting and an 11.5-point ‘dog in Game 1, the Total is set at 179.5.

The Hawks might be able to pull a fast one on the Cavs in the first game as they are 5-2 ATS in their last seven in Cleveland and in their last 20 road games against the Cavaliers are 14-5-1 on the Over/Under.

Magic Missing SG Lee In Game 1

Recovering from surgery to his sinus, Orlando Magic starting shooting guard Courtney Lee will again be absent from his team’s lineup tonight reports the Associated Press.

Lee suffered a fractured sinus after taking an accidental elbow from teammate Dwight Howard and although coach Stan Van Gundy hoped that he would be ready for action, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Orlando is a slight 2-point road ‘dog for tonight’s game.

Seventh Heaven For Bulls-Celtics

All good things come to an end and sadly enough that applies to the playoff series involving the Boston Celtics and the Chicago Bulls, arguably one of the best in a long while.

Going into Saturday’s Game 7 in Boston, the Celtics see themselves installed as 6-point home faves.

This has been a close series though, with many games going to OT and in the last 16 games between Chicago and Boston that fall on a Saturday, the Bulls have the edge going 11-5 ATS.