Nov 27, 2024; San Antonio, Texas, USA; Los Angeles Lakers guard Dalton Knecht (4) shoots over San Antonio Spurs guard Tre Jones (33) in the first half at Frost Bank Center. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images Betting on it and winning could certainly help you pay for whatever your special someone might desire. But what to bet on, you ask?
Try something off our best bets list for Friday, February 14.
If you don’t love any of these ideas, it’s OK. This is a good place to start if you’re trying to figure out which games to target.
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With something like this, it can be hard to judge just how good a team is going to be. Just because you’re great at playing a traditional 5 x 5 full-court game does not mean you’ll make a great 3 x 3 player. Then there’s the matter of chemistry. Whoever has it from the start will certainly have an advantage.
But we can’t know the answers to those questions, so we have to go with what we do know (odds via BetMGM):
· 40% of the tickets at BetMGM have been on Team Jeremy (+500) to win.
· 65.9% of the money is on Team Chris (+220) to win.
Do you follow the public and go with Team Jeremy or the sharps and Team Chris? While Team Jeremy is getting a high percentage of tickets, it’s getting just 7.3% of the handle. That tells me the public is putting a little down on the team with the longest odds in the hope of a bigger payday for taking on minimal risk.
However, Team Chris has three of the top five Rookie of the Year candidates on the roster and four of the top ten. With that caliber of young talent on one roster, I’m going with them.
