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Profit When Betting NBA – January Handicapping

January is a good month to profit when betting on NBA games

The reason why you can take advantage of winning NBA Picks during the month of January is because there is daily inside information coming in  throughout the NBA with many variables that will directly affect the outcome of an NBA matchup.

As an expert NBA handicapper, past years of Sports Betting in the NBA will show you that it is close to the midpoint of the NBA season and teams are getting tired and losing focus. The lack of excitement playing in NBA games that do not have as much attention or significance creates a distraction for players to play at their highest professional level from game to game. This has been witnessed by Gilbert Arenas and his teammates gambling on their spare time using guns to execute a joke.  As for Gilbert Arenas, the  former All-Star’s conduct has resulted in an indefinite suspension from the NBA without pay which means he loses approximately $197,000 per game as his team plays 3-4 games a week.

Along with players losing focus, sports betting in the Month of January will  provide sports handicapping variables and the one that is most important will be  injuries. When an expert handicapper does his due-diligence, he has to analyze how each  injury will affect the daily NBA betting odds before making winning NBA Picks. Injury  in the NBA affects the betting line more than any other sports especially in the month of  January.

Currently, many NBA teams are playing with major injuries to their team as some top tier teams that have suffered from injury such as the Los Angeles Lakers who are missing Paol Gasol who is in and out of the lineup and Ron Artest who was out of the line up for over the past week. The Boston Celtics  had to play without their go-to man Paul  Pierce and Kevin Garnett who has been in and out of the lineup while the Denver Nuggets  Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups both sat out Tuesday’s game as Billups has been out  for two weeks now.

Expert handicapping facts to support the significance of these injuries show you that Denver is 2-6 ATS without Billups and 1-2 without Anthony.  The  Celtics are also 2-0 against the total without their defensive stopper Kevin Garnett and  since Artest has been out, the Lakers are 5-0 against the total. Before making your NBA  Picks, one handicapping rule in the NBA is no defensive stopper, no defense as backed up  by Ron Artest coming back on Tuesday that saw the game go under the total by 33 points
which is not a coincidence.

An expert handicapper will realize that oddsmakers will  continue to post high numbers making the public pay a price for betting the favorite,  although in the month of January, these numbers will be inflated because of the  handicapping variables mentioned. Handicapping facts to back this up shows Boston is 4-6  ATS the spread, the Lakers 4-6 against the spread and the Orlando Magic  2-7-1 against  the spread in their last 10 games. Before making your NBA Picks, pay attention to these  variables in your sports betting handicapping throughout NBA Dog days.