NBA Betting Miami Heat stock
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
by Sportsbetting.com
The basketball betting excitement in South Beach is at a feverish match at the moment. The Miami Heat are not only the talk of Florida, but also of the NBA odds world. Additions of LeBron James and Chris Bosh have made basketball odds fans very high on the Heat to contend for a championship this season.
SportsBetting.com currently has the Heat at 6 to 4 to win the NBA title, almost unseen odds when you consider where they were last season, a middle-of-the-road team that went out of the postseason without much of a fight. In fact, Miami is actually the same NBA betting odds right now as the champion Lakers. Go figure. Before they even tip it off, the Heat are on par with Los Angeles?
The talk around the Heat has been the possibility of making defenses guard both LeBron James and Dwayne Wade at the same time, a seemingly impossible task. Both players are gifted at driving to the net and at spreading the ball around. There’s no disputing their skill level or their tantalizing possibilities as teammates.
However, where the Heat are lacking is in the middle. They have a mix and match of budding career backups and over-the-hill vets that have seen better days. There really isn’t much of a threat for 48 minutes in the middle. When you consider how the Boston Celtics lost game seven of the NBA finals this past June (lack of rebounding), you have to wonder just how good of a bet the Heat are to win the NBA championship in their first season together.
Another angle to consider is the international one. We’ve seen American basketball teams go to the Olympics and the Worlds and win, but we’ve also seen them lose. Other countries figured out a way to compete with and beat the U.S. stacked squad, so why wouldn’t other NBA teams be able to do the same with Miami? At this point, 6 to 4 odds to win it all seem a little premature. The smart money is still on the Lakers.
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