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NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, has banned Jontay Porter for life after an investigation revealed he wagered on NBA games. Porter gambled $54,094 on NBA games and profited $21,965. The former Toronto Raptor also bet on his own team to lose a game. The NBA has permanently banned a player for violating the league’s gambling policy for the first time since 1954. Jontay Porter, 24, received...

More than 2.4 million people watched the 2024 WNBA Draft — destroying the previous viewership record for the league. There was roughly a +307% increase from the previous WNBA Draft record, set in 2004. The 2024 WNBA Draft had more viewers than the latest MLB and NHL Draft broadcasts. Interest in women’s basketball continues to be at an all-time high after Caitlin Clark departed Iowa fo...

The Los Angeles Lakers’ odds of making the 2024 NBA Playoffs recently took a nosedive. The Lakers are coming off back-to-back losses with two games remaining in the regular season. With the Suns' win over the Clippers, the Lakers last chance to make the playoffs is the 2024 NBA Play-In Tournament The Los Angeles Lakers’ odds of making the NBA playoffs received a major blow this week. A...

John Calipari unexpectedly resigned from Kentucky to accept the Arkansas coaching job. Calipari stepped down two weeks after Kentucky's athletic director Mitch Barnhart confirmed he would be returning for the 2024-25 season. Baylor head coach Scott Drew is currently the favorite to replace Calipari as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. Only two weeks after John Calipari reportedly ...

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board has banned player prop bets on college sports. Effective August 1, 2024, sports bettors in Louisiana will no longer be able to wager on player props at regulated sportsbooks. The ban is in response to a recent wave of match-fixing scandals and threats to collegiate athletes from bettors on social media. Louisiana is joining Maryland, Ohio, and Vermon...

        Iowa college basketball star Caitlin Clark was offered a lucrative $5 million contract from Ice Cube to play in his BIG3 league. Rapper Lil Durk doubled the initial offer with a $10 million deal to play for his “3”. The latest betting odds suggest that Clark will not sign a contract to play for the BIG3 in 2024. As college basketball phenom C...

UConn Huskies’ Donovan Clingan is the most likely winner of the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player award. Clingan is skyrocketing on 2024 NBA Draft boards due to his effort in the NCAA Tournament. The UConn Huskies are favored to win the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Connecticut Huskies’ center Donovan Clingan (+180) has the shortest odds to win men’s 2024 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding...

The women’s NCAA Tournament viewership ratings have dominated the NBA on ESPN. The Round of 32 West Virginia vs. Iowa matchup finished atop the ESPN ratings last week. Caitlin Clark’s rise to prominence has helped send interest in women’s college basketball skyrocketing. As women’s college basketball steals the March Madness spotlight, recent metrics reveal that the 2024 Women’s NCAA B...

NCAA President Charlie Baker is encouraging states with legal sports betting to ban prop betting on college sporting events. Baker’s comments are in response to a wave of sports betting scandals involving potential match-fixing and players being harassed over prop bets. Several states already prohibit prop betting on college sports. Following a series of investigations into potential m...

Toronto Raptors’ Jontay Porter is under investigation for irregular betting patterns on his prop bets. The 24-year-old center is currently on a two-way contract with the G League’s Toronto 905 and Raptors. The investigation will focus on Raptors games played from Jan. 26 to March 20. Only days after the Shohei Ohtani gambling saga came to light in the media, another wild betting story ...

The Los Angeles Lakers have the best odds to draft Bronny James in the 2024 NBA Draft. As a freshman at USC, James averaged roughly 5 points and three rebounds per game. In July 2023, James suffered cardiac arrest during a workout in preparation for his freshman season at USC. As we wait for Bronny James’ decision on whether he will declare for the 2024 NBA Draft, oddsmakers at BetUS b...

The Denver Nuggets have won 12 of their previous 14 games. The Nuggets’ NBA Championship odds improved considerably in March, with many bettors backing the team. The Boston Celtics vs. Denver Nuggets is the most likely NBA Finals matchup, according to the latest odds. The Denver Nuggets’ betting odds to win NBA title are dropping rapidly in the build-up to the post-season. According to...

Juwan Howard was fired as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines basketball program after five seasons at the helm. Current South Carolina Gamecocks’ head coach Lamont Paris is the betting favorite to be named as Michigan’s next bench boss. Michigan has failed to reach the NCAA Tournament in three consecutive seasons. Juwan Howard is no longer the Michigan Wolverines head coach after th...

Ben Simmons’ recurring back problems have sidelined him for the rest of the 2023-24 NBA season. The Brooklyn Nets guard played in only 42 games in 2022-23 and 15 games this season. According to the latest odds, Simmons is not expected to retire before the start of the 2024-25 NBA season. Ben Simmons has officially been ruled out for the rest of the 2023-24 campaign due to a lower back ...

The Temple men’s basketball team is under investigation for an illegal match-fixing inquiry. The report broke after suspicious line movement in Temple’s game against UAB on Thursday, March 7. Loyola Mayland is the subject of a separate investigation into potential match-fixing.  Following suspicious line movement in the UAB Blazers (21-11) vs. Temple Owls (13-19) matchup, an offic...

Mark Daigneault of the Oklahoma City Thunder has emerged as the odds-on favorite to win 2023-24 NBA Coach of the Year. Under Daigneault’s watch, the Thunder have improved in each subsequent year since he accepted the job in 2020-21. The Thunder are tied for the best record in the Western Conference and own the fifth-best odds to win the NBA Finals. Most fans are focused on Shai-Gilgeou...