NBA Who’s Hot and Who’s Not
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NBA Who’s Hot and Who’s Not – Feb 13
The NBA 2017 All-Star break starts this Friday in anticipation of the actual All-Star Game this upcoming Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. (ET) on TNT. When play resumes next Thursday, the march towards the postseason and the start of NBA’s real season in the playoffs will get underway.
All year long it has been the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers leading the way in the Eastern Conference standings straight-up while the Golden State Warriors took their familiar place at the top of the standings in the West. However, these two NBA powers have not always been that kind to NBA bettors given their overall record against the spread. The Cavaliers (37-16 SU, 24-27-2 ATS) have been a decent bet since the end of January with a 6-2 record both SU and ATS in their last eight games, but this followed a very costly run in which Cleveland failed to cover in 11 of its previous 13 games.
The Warriors are 46-8 SU as of Sunday’s games and they have gone 27-25-2 ATS. Going back to a 127-107 home victory against Detroit in which it covered BetAnySports’ closing 13.5-point spread, Golden State is 11-3-1 ATS in its last 15 games. It brings a three-game winning streak both SU and ATS into Monday’s road game against Denver as an 11.5-point favorite with BetAnySports.
If you are looking for another hot betting team in the NBA, you might want to turn to the state of Texas with both Houston and Dallas covering in their last three games. The Rockets (40-17 SU, 33-24 ATS) had failed to payoff ATS in seven of their previous nine games and they will be back in action as likely home favorites against Miami this Wednesday night. The Mavericks (22-32 SU, 30-24 ATS) have actually covered ATS in seven of their last eight games while winning six of those games SU. They will face Boston at home this Monday as two-point underdogs with BetAnySports.
San Antonio would be the Texas team to possibly go against right now after failing to cover in six of its last nine games. This past Sunday, the Spurs were tripped up by the New York Knicks 94-90 as 9.5-point road favorites. This was their fourth road game as part of an extended eight-game run on the road. San Antonio pulls into Indiana on Monday night as a three-point favorite at BetAnySports.
