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The Houston Rockets played on Monday without both James Harden and Russell Westbrook yet found a way to win in Utah. Houston will have Westbrook back Wednesday to take on the Portland Trail Blazers and might have Harden as well. His status will affect the NBA odds. How to Bet Rockets vs Trail Blazers 2020 […]

First game of a TNT doubleheader on Tuesday night in the NBA is a potential Eastern Conference playoff preview as the Boston Celtics visit the Miami Heat, who have been spectacular at home this season and will be favored on the NBA odds as long as a few key injured players are able to go. […]

The race for the NBA playoffs begins like a long road race, with every team at the same point on the starting line. With 82 games in the season, it generally isn’t very long before the best teams race to the front and start to pull away from the pack. There are some who will […]

LeBron James added to his legendary status over the weekend in passing former Laker Kobe Bryant for third on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Still going to be very tough for James to catch No. 1 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar simply due to Father Time. Kareem, another former Laker, sits at 38,387 so it would likely take […]

TheScore Bet, the sports betting app from Score Media, which is live in New Jersey, took $6.7 million in bets during its fiscal first quarter. That, obviously, is not a very high number. The total accounts for 0.5% of the $1.28 billion posted in NJ sports betting from September through November. But theScore Bet, with a […]

Every time a team makes a move to ship players out or bring in someone new, they take the risk of doing something that totally blows up in their face. A free agent signing that looks like a slam dunk and a move that will make the team better can end up going horribly wrong. […]

It doesn’t matter what sport you are talking about, winning consistently on the road is one of the toughest things that any team can do. There are a few teams who excel when playing away from home, but the reality is that the teams who make the playoffs are usually the ones who turn their […]

As always seems to happen when we reach this point of the NBA season, we are starting to see a level of separation take place in both conferences. There is a clear leader to be found in the Eastern and Western Conference, followed by a packed group of chasers and the usual battle for the […]

Over the years, the NBA has always followed a bit of a similar pattern. At the top of the conferences, you usually have one or two teams who are markedly better than the rest. Below them is where you will find a decent number of teams all battling it out for the remaining playoff spots, […]

We are beyond the halfway point of the NBA season now, which should serve as a bit of an early warning call for the teams who are currently sitting below the playoff line. Some of those teams are a lost cause, but there are a few who are still close enough to the line to […]