It’s one of the most wonderful times of the year for the NBA, which will showcase the league’s leading title and MVP contenders in its annual Christmas Day games.
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A FanDuel sportsbook bettor hit a five-team underdog money-line parlay comprised of four college basketball teams and a college football team.
Kansas is the consensus favorite at Las Vegas sportsbooks and is the co-favorite at Caesars Sportsbook with Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State.
LeBron James has called Victor Wembanyama “an alien” and “generational talent,” and bettors are backing the Spurs and their 7-foot-4 rookie center to win the NBA title at long odds.
In a much-anticipated matchup of superteams, the Aces opened as favorites over the New York Liberty to win the WNBA Finals.
For the second straight year, a tweet by an NBA insider caused a dramatic shift in the league’s draft odds. Only this time the reporter also is a paid contributor to a sportsbook.
A bettor who needed the Panthers to win the Stanley Cup and the Heat to win the NBA title to turn $41.25 into $763,835.33 cashed out the four-team parlay for $70,429.98.
Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is the odds-on favorite to win the NBA Finals MVP and lead Denver to its first NBA championship by beating the Miami Heat.
The gambler hit the first two legs of a $100 three-team futures parlay on Argentina to win the World Cup and the Denver Nuggets to win the NBA’s Western Conference.
The Aces are even-money favorites at the SuperBook to repeat as WNBA champions and the Liberty are the +110 second choice, with the Mystics a distant third pick.
The wager, a 13,115-1 long shot, comprised three same-game parlays on the NBA playoffs and three money lines on the NHL and NBA playoffs.
Despite the sixth-seeded Warriors’ 11-30 road record, they’re -275 favorites to win their first-round playoff series over the No. 3 Kings.
The Lakers are the 12-1 sixth choice at the Westgate SuperBook to win it all behind Milwaukee (3-1), Boston (+350), Phoenix (5-1), Golden State (8-1) and Denver (9-1).
Connecticut has steamrolled its way to the NCAA championship against San Diego State, winning five straight by an average of 20.6 points while going 5-0 ATS.
Handicapper Wes Reynolds won the SuperBook’s NFL season wins challenge last season and also swept three Review-Journal college contests while going 61-36 ATS.