NBA Basketball Betting

Ever since LeBron James made his “Decision” about his future in the NBA in which he would team up with superstars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in South Beach, a lot of big-name NBA players around the league have thought of doing the same thing as they fear that their current team won’t be able to compete with the likes of the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat moving forward.

The two biggest names involvement in the next “Big Three” conversation have been All-Star point guard Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets) and scoring machine Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets). Even though it is a bit of a stretch to see these two All-Stars teaming up with Amare Stoudemire in the Big Apple with the New York Knicks, the LeBron’s move to the Miami Heat has made anything possible.

The Denver Nuggets have been amongst the best teams in the NBA over the past two seasons or so, but even though things have started looking up in the Mile High City, George Karl and company could be without their best player and scorer next season as Carmelo Anthony seems to be on his way out via trade.

Obviously, trading a player of Carmelo Anthony’s caliber is no easy task as it can be near impossible to get equal value in return. A few years ago, the Los Angeles Lakers have the same problem with four-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant as he was arguably the best player in the league, but impossible to trade as it was impossible to find a deal that benefited both teams equally.

During this NBA offseason the league has gotten a lot more attention then it usually does due to the big-name free agents that were on the open market like LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Amare Stoudemire. Now that all these players have signed with their new teams and other players like Tracy McGrady and Shaq have also inked new deals, the NBA news has really started to die down, but the Denver Nuggets have started to bring attention back to the league with trade rumors surrounding both Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith.

Obviously, the biggest news to come out of Denver is Carmelo Anthony potentially getting traded, but losing both J.R. Smith and Melo would be devastating to the Denver Nuggets and could quite possibly result in the team going from a possible title contender to missing the playoffs altogether.

The United States national basketball team had 13 players yesterday and were able to just edge out Spain this past Sunday with a 86-85 victory, but it could have easily gone the other way with Ricky Rubio and company coming out on top.

Fortunately, the undisputed leader of the team in reigning NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant was able to lead this team to victory was able to block Spain’s last attempt to win the game in the closing seconds.

So even though Team USA’s new squad was able to take down the FIBA World Championship defending champs, the first game of the tournament won’t be until August 28th when the team must have the roster cut down to just 12 players.