Best bets to win the 2022-23 NBA Rookie of the Year award

The Indiana Pacers visit the OKC Thunder on Tuesday at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, with tipoff at 8 p.m. ET. This will be the inaugural matchup of their season series and is included in the NBA's seven-game slate. The Pacers, 36-29, are seventh in the East and coming off a 111-97 road win over the Orlando Magic on Sunday. Tyrese Haliburton…

The Orlando Magic are hoping to end a four-game losing streak when they visit the Indiana Pacers. Orlando lost to the Boston Celtics twice, the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks. A win against Indiana will snap them out of their funk and keep the Magic unbeaten in the season series versus the Pacers. Like the Magic, the Pacers aren't in their best…

The NBA has a reputation as the most predictable league in sports. That's not entirely unfair. In the 43 years from 1980 to 2023, only 14 different franchises have won the league championship. It's possible that's changing now. The NBA has seen five different champions in the last five years, something that hasn't happened since 1975-1980, when the…

Oklahoma City Thunder (38-39 SU, 44-32-1 ATS) vs. Indiana Pacers (33-44 SU, 39-36-2 ATS) When: Friday, March 31st, 7:00 PM (ET) Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse, IN, Indianapolis TV: BSIN Point Spread: OKC -3/Ind+3 (Bet your NBA picks for FREE this week by snatching up a 100% bonus!) Total: OFF Money Line: Oklahoma City Thunder -150/+122 Thunder Shai…

With four months of the 2022-23 NBA regular season officially in the books, it's a good time to check out the latest odds for the Rookie of the Year race, which, unlike the MVP race, has not seen a ton of odds movement. Magic forward Paolo Banchero is leading the way as the betting favorite (-650), which isn't surprising given his pedigree and…

The Indiana Pacers will travel to take on the Orlando Magic in a Wednesday night NBA matchup the Amway Center in Florida. With that said, it's a good time to check out our NBA odds series, which includes a Pacers-Magic prediction and pick, laid out below. Indiana has fallen on tough times lately, enduring a seven-game losing streak on their way to…

The Pacers and Thunder battle for the first time of the season tonight Two of the more surprising teams in the NBA this season, the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder, will square off for the first time of the 2022-23 NBA campaign tonight. The Thunder are playing well right now and have won six out of their last eight games to improve to…

NBA Regular Season Venue: Paycom Center Home: Oklahoma City Thunder Away: Indiana Pacers 19.01.2023, @ 04:00 AM (+03:00 UTC) Odds Bet Type Bookmaker Claim Bonus! Odds1865 Bet TypeHandicap Oklahoma City Thunder (-3.5) Bookmaker Bet Now! NBA midseason brings to us a bunch of rumors and we can be closing in on some interesting trades with several…

NBA Rookie of the Year odds don't suggest there's much of a race to run. Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero is priced as the runaway favorite, but there's a lot of basketball to be played. Banchero is lapping the rookie class with odds as short as -1200 (DraftKings, Caesars). Those who venture to FanDuel or BetMGM can bet on him at -1000 - if…

The talent level in the NBA is as even as it's ever been. Though parity remains an evergreen theme as the season progresses, it's not because teams are short on talent - it's actually the opposite. The Indiana Pacers, for example, are exceeding expectations hovering above.500 in January with rookie Bennedict Mathurin stepping up with an immediate…

The Oklahoma City Thunder are waiting patiently for their prized pick to return to the hardwood after selecting Chet Holmgren with the second-overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, Holmgren has been sidelined since August and will not play this season. While this season has gone better than many thought it would for the Oklahoma City Thunder, as they…

The current Rookie of the Year odds certainly look interesting as of right now. There are some names that were expected to be in the running, but also a couple that are a bit surprising. Regardless, the Rookie of the Year race is always one of the more intriguing award races in the NBA along with the MVP and the Defensive Player of the Year race.…

When the 2022-23 season first tipped-off, it appeared as if Paolo Banchero would be the early front-runner for the NBA's Rookie of the Year Award. During summer league, the Orlando Magic shut him down after only two games, thoroughly impressed with that they had seen. In those two games, he put up close to 20 points per game, five rebounds and six…

The NBA season is underway, which makes it a good time to check in on the NBA Rookie of the Year odds as everyone is getting their first impressions of the 2022 class. The latest: Paolo Banchero was a surprising first pick in the draft, but the big Duke product has produced right away. Bennedict Mathurin has looked great in Indiana so far and…

IND vs ORL Dream11: The NBA Season is in full flow and what a beginning to the season this has been. The Season has been full of surprises and we have seen a bunch of interesting teams stepping up their games. In this Regular Season game, the Orlando Magic is going to take on the Indiana Pacers to extend the season. The Magic and the Pacers met…

A month into the 2022-23 NBA season, no rookies have been better than Paolo Banchero and Bennedict Mathurin. There's plenty of basketball left to be played this season, but current odds tab Banchero and Mathurin as the two favorites to win Rookie of the Year honors. While the Magic and Pacers haven't exactly been in the national spotlight this…

As expected, betting on the Indiana Pacers to catch lightning in a bottle this early in a rebuilding season is a gamble waiting to disappoint its bettor. Touting a 1-4 record through their first five games, the team has definitely struggled to keep up with the association's more robust pool of competitive, win-now clubs. However, that does not mean…

If the 2023 NBA Tank wasn't already officially on, it is now. Ultra-blue-chip prospect and assumed No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama and the top American prospect in the class, point guard Scoot Henderson, put on an absolute show on Tuesday, Oct. 3 against one another. Here were their respective box scores: Wembanyama: 37 points, 11-20 FG, 5…

Every year, the NBA surveys each of its team's general managers on a wide variety of topics, most of which relate to which players or rosters are the best entering a new season. This year's GM survey, written by John Schuhmann, features 50 questions and ranges in topics from "Which team will win the 2023 NBA Finals?" to "What rule most needs to…

There's less than three weeks until the start of the 2022-23 NBA season, and one award race has changed dramatically since the 2022 NBA Draft. Oklahoma City Thunder big man Chet Holmgren, who played well in the NBA Summer League, is out for the season with a Lisfranc injury in his foot, which leaves Orlando Magic forward and No. 1 overall pick…

The NBA offseason is coming to an end with media days and the opening of training camps just around the corner. With the start of the season fast approaching, it's time to take an early look at the top candidates for Rookie of the Year, where the field may be a bit deeper than we initially assumed despite Chet Holmgren's unfortunate Lisfranc…

The Chet Holmgren hype train has left the station. Holmgren had NBA fans going wild with his unofficial professional debut in the Salt Lake City Summer League on Tuesday night. The 7-foot-1, 195-pound center out of Gonzaga tallied 23 points on 7-for-9 shooting, seven rebounds, four assists and six blocks in an extremely impressive 24 minutes of…

The talent level in the NBA is as even as it's ever been. Though parity remains an evergreen theme as the season progresses, it's not because teams are short on talent - it's actually the opposite. The Indiana Pacers, for example, are exceeding expectations hovering above.500 in January with rookie Bennedict Mathurin stepping up with an immediate…