NBA Basketball Betting

Before the NBA trade deadline on the February 18th, the Cleveland Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry pulled the trigger on deal that would bring All-Star caliber forward Antawn Jamison to Cleveland. In exchange for Jamison, the Cavs sent big man Zydrunas Ilgauskas to the Washington Wizards where he never played a single minute and was eventually bought out and made a free agent.

One of the main reasons for making this deal, besides the fact that Jamison could be the missing piece to the championship puzzle for the Cleveland Cavaliers, is that that Cavs knew the Wizards would just buyout Big Z which would make him a free agent and available for Cleveland to sign in 30 days time.

The end of the NBA season is right around the corner and there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen this summer when some of the league’s biggest names like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh become free agents and are available to the highest bidder.

The one player that has gotten most of the attention, and rightfully so, is LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers as he is the arguably the best all around player in the NBA right now and could easily change a playoff team into a title contender. Despite LeBron almost certainly going into this summer without signing an extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers, there only seems to be a handful of teams that could actually afford to sign him to the kind of money he is worth. The New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers and the Miami Heat look like they could be the possible destinations for the league’s leading scorer, but LeBron has yet to give any hint that he is leaning towards any of these teams.

No team in the Eastern Conference or even the entire NBA for that matter has been as dominant as the Cleveland Cavaliers over the last two years.

This season LeBron James and the Cavs came into the year with a chip on their shoulder after Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic just dominated Cleveland in the Eastern Conference finals last season. It wasn’t even a competition for Dwight Howard and company as they just dominated LeBron’s Cavs in every aspect of the game. The series was more like a first round matchup as the Magic routed the Cavs with a 4-1 series victory. Even the one win the Cavs got over the Magic was due to LeBron James’ game-winning three at the buzzer. If LeBron hadn’t hit that shot, the Magic would have swept the Cavs much like the San Antonio Spurs didn’t in the NBA Finals a few years back.

This season has been nothing short of a nightmare for the New Orleans Hornets as nothing seems to be going their way.

A few seasons ago the New Orleans Hornets were one of the most promising young teams in the NBA with an All-Star point guard in Chris Paul who was getting a lot of recognition as the best point guard in the league, but last season, the Hornets really struggled to get back to form and as a result were knocked out in the first round of the playoffs in five games by the Denver Nuggets.

Not only was the loss the Denver Nuggets in the first round in the playoffs a huge disappointment, but it seemed to carry over to this season as they started out this season with eight losses in the first 11 games.