{"id":18542,"date":"2021-07-16T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:17:53","slug":"despite-flops-usa-basketball-still-gold-medal-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/despite-flops-usa-basketball-still-gold-medal-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Flops USA Basketball still gold medal favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Men&#8217;s USA Basketball team has suffered back-to-back losses during international friendlies this week, but it is still the prohibitive favorite to walk away on top of the Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/record.commissionkings.ag\/_ejy4onLiLhHT2Fu8bIPGIGNd7ZgqdRLk\/1\/\">SportsBetting<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;released gold medal odds for men&#8217;s basketball Tuesday, and the USA is a 1\/6, or -600, favorite, meaning a bettor would have to wager $600 just to return $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia, which defeated the USA squad yesterday, is second on the board with 9\/1 or +900 odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria, after beating Team USA as a 30-point underdog on Sunday, comes in with 33\/1 odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USA team is an 18.5-point favorite in their friendlies game against Argentina tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odds are subject to change and current numbers can be seen here:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olympics &#8211; Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA 1\/6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia 9\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain 10\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France 20\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slovenia 20\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina 33\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria 33\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy 50\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Czech Republic 80\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany 80\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran 500\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan 500\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Men&#8217;s USA Basketball team has suffered back-to-back losses during international friendlies this week, but it is still the prohibitive favorite to walk away on top of the Summer Olympics. SportsBetting&nbsp;&nbsp;released gold medal odds for men&#8217;s basketball Tuesday, and the USA is a 1\/6, or -600, favorite, meaning a bettor would have to wager $600 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/despite-flops-usa-basketball-still-gold-medal-favorites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Despite Flops USA Basketball still gold medal favorites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18543,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions\/18543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}