Lakers: This Vegas Bet Placed Before the Season is About to Pay Off in the Worst Way For LA

The NBA season continues to roll on, and bettors are finding plenty of ways to claim some serious cash on DraftKings Sportsbook. One way to get some of the biggest payouts possible is to combine your picks into a "Parlay." You can even combine multiple picks from the same game into a Same Game Parlay (SGP). On Tuesday night, there were five games…

NBA Regular Season Venue: Crypto.com Arena Home: Los Angeles Lakers Away: Minnesota Timberwolves 12.04.2023, @ 05:00 AM (+03:00 UTC) Odds Bet Type Bookmaker Claim Bonus! Odds1,90 Bet TypeIndividual Total 1 Over 120.5 Bookmaker Bet Now! NBA Regular Season ended after a long and gritty window. As usual, there were a lot of twists and turns, and as we…

The Lakers magic carpet ride to the Western Conference Finals was great fun, it was totally unexpected, and even inspiring in many ways. You know, the old bromide about keep rooting for the underdog and sometimes it will actually come true. And it did - for a while. But now, after the 113-111 loss in game 4 of the Western Conference Finals Monday…

Two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets are a force to be reckoned with - nobody will dispute that at this point. However, after jumping to a 2-0 series lead against the Lakers on Thursday night, the sportsbooks seem to be overstating Denver's probability not just of winning the Western Conference Finals, but also of winning it all. When the…

For the first time in NBA history, a No. 7 (Lakers) and 8 (Heat) seed are in the conference finals. You might be tempted to call these developments a fluke. They're not. They are an illustration of what has become an extremely equitable NBA landscape. In sports, we love to say "anybody can win" but that's rarely actually true. At this moment in the…

ESPN's fantasy basketball and basketball betting tips cheat sheet is your pregame destination for basketball betting predictions and our best intel and data, featuring ESPN's proprietary Basketball Power Index (BPI) to help you make smart fantasy and wagering decisions. NBA game odds for Tuesday are provided by Caesars Sportsbook. The path to the…

The Los Angeles Lakers have played to a very predictable pattern so far in the 2022-23 postseason. Beginning with a 108-102 overtime victory at home over the Minnesota Timberwolves in an NBA play-in game on April 11, here's how things went for the Lakers in their first nine playoff contests: Two straight wins, one loss. Two straight wins, one loss.…

The Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors have started trading blowouts since their Game 1 classic. The Warriors demolished the Lakers 127-100 in Game 2, but the Lakers turned around and handed the Warriors a 127-97 thrashing in Game 3. Anthony Davis was at the literal and figurative center of Saturday's victory, finishing the game with 25…

With a Minnesota Timberwolves 2023 NBA Play-In Tournament game scheduled against the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday night, a lot of eyes will be on the team that finished eighth in the Western Conference's regular-season standings. Ahead of the Timberwolves-Lakers game, we'll be making our Timberwolves 2023 NBA Play-In Tournament predictions. Most of…

After Friday's home win versus Detroit, the young and rebuilding Houston Rockets (19-59) have suddenly won four of their last six games within the team's friendly downtown confines of Toyota Center. For the 2022-23 season as a whole, the Rockets are a fairly respectable 13-26 (.333) at home, but just 6-33 (.154) on the road. One of those 13 home…

There is something about this generation of athletes. The GOATs refuse to give in to Father Time. Roger Federer won a major at 38. Serena Williams won a major at 35 years old while pregnant. Lionel Messi just won the World Cup at 35, and I don't have to spell out everything the recently retired Tom Brady has accomplished past 40. Now, it's The…

With 10 straight losses and 15 in 16 games, it's a grind right now for the young Houston Rockets (10-33). If there's any consolation, though, it's that things are also underwhelming for their next opponent. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers (19-24) enter Monday's matchup at No. 13 in the Western Conference, just two spots in front of…

It's not often that I write a misleading title, but I'm afraid this is one of those rare times. The Los Angeles Lakers are not only uninterested in trading with the San Antonio Spurs, but they are reportedly not interested in trading with anyone and sticking to the lineup they have for the rest of the season. Here at Air Alamo, we've spent the…

The Los Angeles Lakers were the favorites to win the NBA Championship and the Western Conference at the start of the 2021-22 season. The pairing of LeBron James and Anthony Davis with Russell Westbrook was too strong for the bookmakers to ignore. They had absurd odds of+350 to capture the conference and+500 to win their second title in three years…

Since getting off to a 2-10 start to the 2022-23 campaign, the Los Angeles Lakers have won five of their past seven games. Now that they're 7-12 with plenty of season remaining, they could still be a successful team moving forward. It appears that seems to be the consensus inside of the Lakers' locker room, too. According to ESPN's Dave McMenamin,…

The NBA season is only a quarter of the way through and it has already been a roller coaster for the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers started off the season 0-5 before winning back-to-back games. They then had another 0-5 stretch to drop to 2-10, which was the worst record in the league at the time. Considering the Lakers came into this season with…

Anthony Davis has started this season playing at a level not seen since the 2019-2020 championship campaign. Without LeBron, our NBA betting picks expect AD's resurgence to continue against a porous Spurs defense. Sunday's NBA betting action sees the 6-11 San Antonio Spurs and the 4-10 Los Angeles Lakers face off with both teams seeking a…

It has been a nightmarish start for the Los Angeles Lakers. A 3-10 record, a -6.4 net rating, and a league-worst 106.1 offensive rating. And now a groin injury has kept LeBron James out for two games in a row. Last season was bad, but this season now threatens to be much worse. Major changes could be on the horizon. Here are two bold predictions…

If you're one of the many Lakers' fans still holding out hope that Rob Pelinka will eventually cave and trade either Los Angeles' 2027 or 2029 first-round pick, or perhaps both, in an attempt to put a competitive team around LeBron James, you're not going to like the latest report. Per Stadium Insider Shams Charania, the Lakers, considering the way…

The Los Angeles Lakers enter the 2022-2023 season looking for redemption after a disappointing campaign last year. They finished the season 33-49 and missed out on the playoffs. They did not even quality for the play-in tournament, as the San Antonio Spurs passed them in the final week of the season for the 10th seed. That's quite a fall from…

The Los Angeles Lakers have gone from clear favorites to repeat as Champions to long odd underdogs to win the NBA Pacific Division. It doesn't seem so long ago that Los Angeles Lakers were the defending champions of the NBA. After their winning run in 2020, however, the Lakers have been disappointing, with the 17-time champions failing to make the…

Coming off another poor season in the 2017-18 season, the Los Angeles Lakers made their most significant move since trading for Pau Gasol a decade earlier in 2008. They signed free-agent LeBron James to a max deal on the first day of free agency in 2018. They would go on to add Rajon Rondo, Lance Stephenson, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Michael…

Two NBA teams that are in the minds of the media and NBA fans alike are the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. Both teams have been in trade rumors all season long because they are both in win-now mode following the end of the 2022 NBA season. Of course, they finished on two different ends of the spectrum as well. Because of the performances of…

Fans of the Los Angeles Lakers were convinced the worst was behind them when last season ended. Russell Westbrook, multiple injuries to both Anthony Davis and LeBron James, and a roster that just never really worked, the team actually missed the play-in tournament. Obviously, things would be better next season, according to…