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The Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks face off in one of the best matchups on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Heat have been ravaged by injuries all season, but they have started to turn things around, winning seven of their last 10 games to move into seventh in the Eastern Conference. The Hawks have underperformed to start this season, but they have…

Nothing has gone the Los Angeles Lakers way this season, from poor results to difficulties remaining healthy. However, according to Darvin Ham, the Lakers are slowly heading toward a healthy roster, with Anthony Davis, Lonnie Walker IV, and Austin Reaves all trending in a positive direction with their respective recoveries. "Lonnie is trending in…

This season, the Los Angeles Lakers (19-23) have four wins against teams with a winning record. During their current stretch where they find themselves inching their way back into the play-in tournament conversation, they are collecting wins primarily against teams with high lottery odds this season. They take on the Philadelphia 76ers (26-16)…

The New York Knicks will host the Chicago Bulls at the Madison Square Garden on Monday. This will be the final regular-season matchup between the two teams, with the Bulls holding a 2-1 series lead. The Bulls beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-94 in their previous game, grabbing their first win in an ongoing five-game road trip. All the Bulls'…

The Golden State Warriors are on the road again on Sunday against the Chicago Bulls, who are hoping to get DeMar DeRozan (questionable) back in the lineup. Golden State has been one of the worst road teams in the NBA, going just 2-7 against the spread as road favorites and 4-16 straight up away from Chase Center. The Bulls are hanging on to a…

The Los Angeles Lakers have a rematch from their Christmas Day matchup against Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night in LA. The Lakers have quietly moved to within half a game of the play-in tournament in the West, with LeBron James playing at an extremely high level recently without Anthony Davis. Dallas has won seven of its last…

The NBA on TNT has another mesmerizing double-header on the dockets for basketball fans as a handful of household names meet underneath the nationally televised spotlight. Tune in as the white-hot Brooklyn Nets host the first-place Boston Celtics before the Los Angeles Lakers welcome the Dallas Mavericks to Tinseltown. Kyrie Irving returns to…

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 Oklahoma City Thunder have a chance to upset the Miami Heat on Tuesday night, as Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro are both out for this game. OKC has won two games in a row, and the team is close to the play-in tournament in the Western Conference. If you're not sold on betting on a side in this game, there are plenty of player props to choose from…

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The biggest storylines in the NBA over the past week have been in the injury department, as Kevin Durant, Zion Williamson, and Paul George have all went down to injuries. However, there have also been positive injury moves, with Stephen Curry set to return on Tuesday and Anthony Davis reportedly getting closer to a return, which has moved the Los…

There are a boatload of intriguing storylines in the NBA on Tuesday night, starting with Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell making his return to Utah to face the Utah Jazz. Mitchell was traded by the Jazz to Cleveland in the offseason, but he's hoping to receive a warm welcome from the franchise that he started his career with. Mitchell has…

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The Memphis Grizzlies find themselves in a familiar spot on Sunday, set as major home favorites against the Utah Jazz. The Grizz are in the middle of a five-game winning streak and are just half a game behind the Denver Nuggets for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Utah, on the other hand, is in danger of falling out of the play-in…

The Indiana Pacers could jump half a game ahead of the New York Knicks for the No. 6 spot in the Eastern Conference with a win over the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday in Indiana. The Pacers have won seven of their last 10 games and are looking more and more like the real deal behind the play of potential All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton. The Hornets,…

LeBron James has been upgraded to available for Saturday's game. On Saturday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers are in Sacramento face off with the Kings. For the game, they will have their best player in the starting lineup, as four-time NBA Champion LeBron James has been upgraded to available. Underdog NBA: "LeBron James (ankle) will play…

How to Watch Bulls vs. Hornets BetCast originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The 2021-22 regular season is coming to a close for the NBA, but we still have so much in store before the playoffs begin on Saturday, April 16. This week, the No. 6 Bulls have faced the No. 3 Celtics on Wednesday and now will take on the No. 10 Hornets on Friday and…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Unfinished business. That's the theme of the 2022-23 season for the Cavaliers. Fueled by an underdog, Cleveland-against-everybody mentality, the scrappy young group became the NBA's greatest surprise last season, rocketing up the Eastern Conference standings, doubling their win total from the previous season and advancing to the…

As the week winds down and Ohio concludes its first full week with legal sports betting, we can turn our attention to some high-level NBA over on the east coast this Friday night. The Philadelphia 76ers will host the surging Chicago Bulls, who are coming off one of their most impressive wins of the year, beating the Brooklyn Nets and snapping their…

Entering a year where very few in the NBA believed the Utah Jazz would be a playoff team, the Jazz have shocked many as one of the best surprises in the league. Sitting at 20-21 and in 10th place in the Western Conference standings, Utah is currently in the final spot of the play-in tournament - a place not many expected them to be. But rather than…

Another 3-0 night in the books, as we move to just over 55% on the season as the halfway point is just about here. After a four-game slate last night that saw favorites go 3-1, let's take a closer look at Friday's slate as we kick off the weekend with some green. YTD Record: 54-44-4 ATS Pelicans+4 ( -110) vs. Nets As predicted right here on these…

The San Antonio Spurs face the New Orleans Pelicans for the second time in nine days on Saturday, and this time they might want to show up. In last Friday's meeting at the AT&T Center, the Spurs came out flat to the tune of a 35-10 first-quarter deficit. Somehow, things only got worse from there. By the end of the night, they'd allowed 50% shooting…

Led by Lauri Markkanen, the Utah Jazz (19-21) have exceeded all expectations for the 2022-23 season to date. While many around the NBA viewed the Jazz as in the same bottom tier as other rebuilding franchises, like Houston, steady veterans like Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson, Malik Beasley, Collin Sexton, Kelly Olynyk, and Mike Conley have worked magic…

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The Philadelphia 76ers recently acquired James Harden, and they are looking to make it pat the second round of the playoffs and finally win a championship together. Harden fixes so much of what this team was missing, and the Sixers have looked like a brand new team since Harden's arrival. With that being said, let's take a look at a few bold…

We've seen some ridiculous scoring performances in the NBA lately, with Donovan Mitchell dropping 71 points on Monday and Luka Doncic posting a 60-point triple double in a comeback win over the New York Knicks last week. But the man who is going to be the all-time leader scoring in NBA history, LeBron James, is putting up eye-popping numbers at age…

Utah and Miami are both coming off losses last night, but now they have a chance to end 2022 with a win. With how tired the Heat have looked on back-to backs this season, our NBA betting picks are targeting Markkanen to light it up. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The last game on the calendar before 2023 is a showdown between the Miami Heat and the…

Pascal Siakam and the Toronto Raptors look to close out the calendar year on a winning note as they take on Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns on Friday night. The Raptors are on the tail end of a back-to-back after they fell 119-106 to the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night. Siakam led the way for Toronto with 25 points and 10 rebounds while…

The Cleveland Cavaliers are coming off of back-to-back losses and hoping to right the ship on the road, taking a brief Central Division Midwest trip to Indiana and Chicago to close out the year. In a 2022 full of standout moments, the Cavs hope to close things out on a high note. That brief road trip will begin tonight in Indianapolis against the…

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The Los Angeles Lakers are a mess. Employing a roster built on guards in an era where mostsuccessful NBA teams are loaded with wing players, the team iscurrently 25th in the league in three-point shooting (33.9%) andranks dead last in clutch timeperformance, finding some creative ways to give games away. Because of that - despite LeBron James…

SportsMemo handicapper JM Sports gives his betting preview on the Golden State Warriors vs Denver Nuggets divisional series in the Western Conference. Golden State finished third in the west with a 53-29 record. Denver finished sixth at 48-34. If you look back in the playoffs in the recent seasons, Oracle Arena has been one place that most people…

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The Portland Trail Blazers entered the 2022 offseason under a ton of pressure to deliver on Damian Lillard's wishes for a competitive squad. Now that the 2022 NBA draft and much of the offseason are pretty much done, the Blazers didn't do too badly. To be honest, the Blazers made every effort to regain their competitiveness this offseason. Will the…

The Orlando Magic host the San Antonio Spurs at the Amway Center on Friday (December 23) in NBA Regular Season action. The betting odds and predictions are given below: The Magic are in superb form, having won seven of their last eight games. After their incredible six-game win streak was ended by the Hawks, they bounced back in the last game,…

The NBA season is nearing the halfway mark and teams have all played enough games to finally give us a proper sample size. Especially when it comes to betting on the spread. The stats analyzed at this point could be valid indicators of what's to follow. But even if you're not ready to make any bets today or don't want to look too far ahead, it's…

This season has been an absolute roller-coaster ride for Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors as they pursue back-to-back NBA titles. After defeating the Boston Celtics in the Finals in June, the team set its sights on repeating as champions, a feat they accomplished in 2017 and 2018. With Klay Thompson back healthy and Stephen Curry playing…

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Minnesota has only made the playoffs once since 2005, but it has a chance to clinch a berth when it faces the Clippers in the 2022 NBA playoffs play-in tournament on Tuesday night. The Timberwolves posted a winning record for the second time in 17 seasons, while the Clippers are trying to build on last season's trip to the Western Conference…

Charlotte has had a horrific this season thus far, and now it must head to Los Angeles to take on a Clippers side finding its stride. With Kawhi getting back into form, our NBA betting picks are backing L.A. to cover. The Charlotte Hornets have snapped their eight-game losing streak following a 125-119 win on Monday. They will try to snowball that…

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Rumors of a UEFA Super League have become increasingly prevalent in recent times as larger clubs look for ways to earn a buck any way they can. An official announcement of a Super League even came earlier this year before being trounced by fans across the continent. Big clubs loathe the current Champions League format because it limits matchups…

The Eastern Conference is full of win streaks right now, as the Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat have all won at least four straight games to tighten the top half of the standings in the conference. The Orlando Magic deserve an honorable mention in here (may be the only time I say that this…

The improbable turnaround of the Boston Celtics continues with a game against the Toronto Raptors at the Scotiabank Arena on Monday. Boston leads their season series 2-1 against the Raptors and could clinch it with another win. Behind their stifling defense and evolving offense, nobody's been hotter than the Celtics (47-28) in the last few months.…

In the midst of their longest winning streak in nearly two years, the Knicks are officially the NBA's hottest team. They're also one of the worst teams in the league - at least according to their betting odds. New York's seven-game surge has done very little to sway the opinion of bookmakers, who are still pricing this group as a hopeless long shot…

It's put-up-or-shut-up time for the Chicago Bulls as they hope to bounce back from a 150-126 beatdown by the Minnesota Timberwolves on the road, and we have our Bulls vs. Heat prediction. At 11-18, Chicago sits one game behind the Toronto Raptors for a spot in the playoff play-in tournament. As for the Heat, they're the seventh seed in the…

A new week is here, bringing us another loaded slate of NBA action on Monday night. There are nine games tonight, each of which will have implications that can shake up the standings as teams battle to break apart from the pack. In the East, the Milwaukee Bucks lead the way at 21-8, following the Celtics' fall back to Earth. Only 6.5 games separate…

We thought we were onto something. We thought the New York Knicks were on their way to making a historic playoff push after three consecutive wins against some pretty stiff competition. New York took down a surging Clippers team, a Kings team that is by no means a slouch, and a red-hot Mavericks team in need of wins to move up in the west. The one…