NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
"A gambling industry source pointed to a game between the Bucks and the Portland Trail Blazers on Jan. 31, 2024. The odds on Beasley recording fewer than 2.5 rebounds moved significantly at sportsbooks before the game, shortening from around +120 to around -250 due to a surge of action on the under. Beasley finished with six rebounds, and the bets that were deemed unusual lost.
seems bs
if he were trying to make money on props he would just brick a few more 3s, he takes like 9 a game
a pts limits obviously much higher than rebounds
Ayton bought out by Blazers
because DFS opted out that means the Lakers have their Full MLE.
Everyone looks better in Purple and Gold.
He's going to be a LAKER!
LeBron and Luka are going to make him look amazing.
I don't see why he would go anywhere else.
Lakers need a centre. Ayton needs to earn a new contract. Luka and Lebron will get him open shots which are the only shots Ayton makes anyway. He still gets rebounds 10 last year on a crappy team is still a great number.
props are more guesswork than anything else for the books and have very low betting limits as a result and random surge in wagers or a few $50 wagers from sharp accounts can move the line significantly
wouldn't surprise me at all if they found some dude at barstool mentioned it as a lock on his live stream or something
tell that to russell westbrook's teammates
ESPN.
It seems like Beasley may have some lawsuit ammo. All of the headlines make it seem like he was either gambling or involved in a gambling ring in rigging his over/under props. But then when you read the article, none of it makes sense at all. As yall have mentioned, if you are fixing something, why do rebounds? And the limits are so small on that, I can’t imagine anyone trying to fix it. And more importantly, he crushed the over on the rebounds that game (by 4 rebounds) and all the unusual bets lost.
They are killing his name and his future earnings for something that seems like nothing.
now this is super interesting - could have gotten down millions on this very discreetly and games like this with big spreads are easier to juke for the example shown above - still just circumstantial though
for example, he may have also just really wanted to eclipse 20 points or was frustrated etc
but now i kind of want to watch the clip of his rebounding that game and see if he got some early in which he had to get it otherwise it'd be too obvious and then once the seal was broken figured "may as well try to get some more now to avoid suspicion"
but again, i bet he's innocent and wouldn't surprise me if other players had a whole littany of "f it" moment where they did stuff like in the clip above
Actually feeling sorry for the guy until there's evidence of wrong-doing
The sad thing is that you have a lot of people online who are desperate for it to be true because they just want the NBA to be about drama & lols and not actual basketball.
those people will start posting those random clips from the season thinking that they're proving a point "LOOK HERE BEASLEY GETTING AN USUAL REBOUND SO OBVIOUS LOL" or really just trying to get clicks and that's the reputation gone
Actually feeling sorry for the guy until there's evidence of wrong-doingThe sad thing is that you have a lot of people online who are desperate for it to be true because they just want the NBA to be about drama & lols and not actual basketball. those people will start posting those random clips from the season thinking that they're proving a point "LOOK HERE BEASLEY GETTING AN
literally saw this on my X feed : "Beasley goes coast-to-coast down 9 to cut the lead to 7 in the final seconds and cover the spread Timberwolves +8.5"
just laughibly sad & stupid
This is gonna sound crazy, but Bucks are winning the East next year.
The east is a ****ing wasteland and KPJ, Trent, and Giannis is honestly probably enough.
This is gonna sound crazy, but Bucks are winning the East next year.
The east is a ****ing wasteland and KPJ, Trent, Portis, and Giannis is honestly probably enough.
Team with Giannis on it winning their conference will never sound crazy to me (until he gets old).
Team with Giannis on it winning their conference will never sound crazy to me (until he gets old).
Truth
Team with Giannis on it winning their conference will never sound crazy to me (until he gets old).
I dunno
On one hand I want to believe this, on the other they are so thoroughly overmatched (especially if BroLo walks) by at least 5 other teams in the east
I’m not sold they have a chance against a Tatumless Celtics at this point
They traded for a guy who scores as much as Porter but actually plays defense. Also, they got out of the Porter contract and went from owing him 38 million to paying Cam Johnson 21 million. This gets them out from under the luxury tax.
What really warms my heart as a Nugget fan is that they brought Bruce Brown back.
Nuggs big winners today and it isnt close
MPJ sucks now and cant stay healthy
although if jokic retires by then that '32 first is gonna be nice
