{"id":4753,"date":"2009-06-25T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/last-minute-nba-draft-projections-versus-the-vegas-draft-odds\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:04:00","slug":"last-minute-nba-draft-projections-versus-the-vegas-draft-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/last-minute-nba-draft-projections-versus-the-vegas-draft-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute NBA Draft Projections Versus the Vegas Draft Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just as <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> is widely accepted as the top site for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/\">NBA betting picks<\/a>, the top site for the NBA draft is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbadraft.net\/\">NBAdraft.net<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though ESPN begins coverage at <\/span><\/font><st1:time Hour=\"19\" Minute=\"30\">7:30<\/st1:time>, the NBA draft time is <st1:time Hour=\"8\" Minute=\"0\">8:00 EST.<\/st1:time> <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The only real shock would be if the LA Clippers draft anyone other than <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>&#8217;s Blake Griffin with the No. 1 pick. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/9d3a6ca1-61c8\"><span class=SpellE>BetED<\/span><\/a> has probably the best betting lines of any the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=13\">recommended sportsbooks<\/a> as NBA <span class=SpellE>draftnicks<\/span> can wager on how many players will be taken in the first round from the Big East, Pac 10, and ACC, not to mention the number of international players taken in the first round.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who will draft Ricky Rubio? According to NBAdraft.net he&#8217;s going to <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, so &#8220;any other team&#8221; besides <st1:City><st1:place>Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at -310 may be a good bet. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Most projections see <span class=SpellE>Hasheem<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Thabett<\/span> going second, but if he&#8217;s leapfrogged by James Harden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/9d3a6ca1-61c8\"><span class=SpellE>BetED<\/span><\/a> will pay a hefty +255.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Will Stephen Curry or <span class=SpellE>Jonny<\/span> Flynn be drafted first? Curry is -230. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In fact there are betting propositions on just about every player likely to get drafted in the first round: Tyler Hansbrough, Chase <span class=SpellE>Budinger<\/span>, Wayne Ellington, <span class=SpellE>DuJuan<\/span> Summers, Brandon Jennings, <span class=SpellE>Jrue<\/span> Holiday and more. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbook<\/a> actually has Ricky Rubio projected to get drafted third, so James Harden at +190 is a sensational bet according to the NBA draft projections. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\">Bodog<\/a> <\/span>is also expected to post similar odds by 6:00 EST. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as OffshoreInsiders.com is widely accepted as the top site for NBA betting picks, the top site for the NBA draft is NBAdraft.net Though ESPN begins coverage at 7:30, the NBA draft time is 8:00 EST. The only real shock would be if the LA Clippers draft anyone other than Oklahoma&#8217;s Blake Griffin with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/last-minute-nba-draft-projections-versus-the-vegas-draft-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Minute NBA Draft Projections Versus the Vegas Draft Odds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}