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On Friday, August 25, the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup gets underway as the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia are co-hosting 32 countries, all in search of the 2023 FIBA World Cup crown on September 10. The FIBA Basketball World Cup occurs once every four years. In 2019, Team Spain blew out Argentina in the gold medal match by a score of 95-75. The Americans crashed out early and finished a ...

There is a new player with the biggest contract in NBA history. One year after Denver’s Nikola Jokic set a record for the largest NBA contract, the Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown owns the record for the largest contract ever signed in the NBA. We are examining Jokic and Brown’s contracts while delving into the rest of the richest NBA contracts signed in NBA history. On Tuesday, July 25, Brown si...

On Thursday, June 22, the best basketball prospects in the world will wait to hear their name called at the 2023 NBA Draft. The NBA Draft is a two-round event set to be completed at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. We all know about the French phenom Victor Wembanyama, but there are plenty of other talented players that could end up changing the fortunes of the teams that draft them....

LeBron James publicly declared that he is unsure about playing basketball beyond this season. Following a Game 4 loss and exit from the Western Conference Finals at the hands of the Denver Nuggets, James stated that he will consider retirement in the offseason. Is James being serious, or is this more of a message to the Lakers’ organization? He certainly looked frustrated and beaten down durin...

It’s crunch time, as the most thrilling sporting event of the year is inching closer to crowning a National Champion on Monday, April 3, at NRG Stadium in Houston1.   This weekend, the Elite 8 of the 2023 NCAA Men’s Tournament will decide which teams make it to the Final 4 in Houston. The Big Dance has been filled with excitement and drama over the first three rounds. We expect that ha...

March Madness includes both the conference tournaments and NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championship events. That means we are in store for a lot of basketball, with wagering available at the top College Basketball betting sites. Let’s focus on in-game wagering with this March Madness live betting. College basketball fans annually circle the month of March as the best time of the year. There wi...

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament returns for another year of buzzer-beaters, upsets, Cinderella stories, and so much more. Of course, March Madness also means gambling and NCAA Tournament bracket pools at the best College Basketball betting sites. In all, 68 teams will enter the competition with the same dream of lifting that coveted National Championship trophy. Meanwhile, millions of Ame...

Championship week is officially upon us! Some of the smaller leagues around the nation have already jumped headfirst into their end of season brackets, with the rest of the country wrapping up their regular seasons and heading into their respective conference tournaments by tomorrow. As Selection Sunday looms, just under a week away, the NCAA tournament is set to take center stage. If you ask ...

As we head into the beginning of January, Lakers’ superstar LeBron James (37,903 points) sits just 484 points behind tying Kareem Abdul Jabbar (38,387 points) as the league’s all-time NBA scorer. That means the 38-year-old James (29,0 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 6.6 apg) will likely be breaking Kareem’s all-time NBA mark and making it the LeBron James scoring record probably next month. Averaging almost 3...

The Sacramento Kings hope that new royalty has entered the castle of Golden1Center in Sacramento. They currently sit on the right side of the Playoff fence and are (-120) to make the playoffs and (-110) to miss the playoffs, according to sports betting sites. With an explosive offense, the Kings can find themselves in the NBA Playoffs for the first...

The Brooklyn Nets became the first team since the start of the 2022-23 NBA Regular Season to part ways with their head coach when they let go of Steve Nash after a 2-5 start on November 1. Besides the Nets, there are some other teams off to awful starts and it’s only a matter of time before the Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets make a move. The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Orlando Magic are...

There is no sport in sports betting that has as many teams and games to bet on than College Basketball. In fact, there are so many moving pieces, teams and changes that it can be hard to keep track of. There are 26 teams who will be in new Conferences or have become Independents, 15 Division I teams playing their last season in their respect...

The combination of The Digital Age and the 102nd US Supreme Court overturning the antiquated Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in 2018 has been the perfect storm for Live Betting or In-game Wagering to flourish over the last several years. Live Betting can be somewhat intimidating for the novice when first starting out, and it isn’...

NBA is one of the most statistically-based sports to bet on. There are the main and most common stats (PPG, etc.), but if you dig deep into the numbers, there are helpful advanced stats that can help in your NBA betting. We’re looking at the top NBA betting stats to handicap before locking in your bets. There are important NBA stats for betting that must be considered. Most NBA...

The worldwide leader in vaguely sports-related drama is at it again!  While hosting the 2021 NBA Finals, ESPN recently found a way to make the story about the media sports juggernaut itself.  The latest controversy centered around comments made by Rachel Nichols, the white host of ESPN’s The Jump and NBA sideline reporter, about her African American colleague Maria Taylor.   Without skippi...