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07/20/2010 - Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Miami Heat continued their radical roster reshaping on Tuesday by signing journeyman forward Juwan Howard.
Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported it is a one-year deal for the veteran minimum of $1.4 million.
"This is a great addition for us," said Heat president Pat Riley. "We feel that Juwan's ability to play both the four and five spot will be complimentary to what we have put together. He also gives us incredible professionalism and is a perfect fit behind Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem."
The 37-year-old spent last season with Portland, where he averaged 6.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in 73 contests.
Since breaking into the league in 1994 as the fifth overall pick of Washington from the University of Michigan, Howard has racked up 14.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per contest in 1,116 NBA games with the Bullets/Wizards, Mavericks, Nuggets, Magic, Rockets, Bobcats and Trail Blazers.
Howard joins previous front-court additions Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Dexter Pittman, Bosh and LeBron James on the new Miami roster as the club looks to win their second NBA title in franchise history.
<< Defending champ Davydenko advances at Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top seed and defending champion Nikolay
Davydenko advanced with an easy second-round victory on Tuesday at the German
Open Tennis Championships, on a day which saw nearly every other seeded player
fall.
<< Bulls pull off sign-and-trade for C.J. Watson
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Bulls have acquired guard C.J.
Watson from Golden State in a sign-and-trade deal that netted the Warriors a
second-round draft pick.
An official Bulls blog on the team's website confirmed the
<< Petkovic advances in Austria
Bad Gastein, Austria (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defending champion Andrea Petkovic of
Germany was among the first-round winners Tuesday at the Gastein Ladies tennis
tournament.
Petkovic, this year's top seed, cruised to a 6-4, 6-0 victory ove
<< American midfielder Zizzo signs with MLS
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - American midfielder Sal Zizzo has left German
Bundesliga club Hannover and signed with Major League Soccer on Tuesday. Zizzo
will learn his new club after a weighted lottery is conducted on Wednesday.
Zizzo p
Rangers' Nippert lands on DL >>
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Texas Rangers decided to place reliever
Dustin Nippert on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday after he was struck in the
head by a line drive during Monday's game versus the Tigers.
Nippert was taken to
Suns add Babby to front office >>
Phoenix, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Phoenix Suns introduced Lon Babby as the
organization's next president of basketball operations at a news conference on
Tuesday.
Babby joins the Suns as the successor to Steve Kerr, whose contract was
Indians activate SS Cabrera after two-month DL stint >>
Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Indians activated shortstop
Asdrubal Cabrera from the disabled list after he missed two months with a
broken left forearm.
Cabrera, who had originally been expected to return to the l
Bucs sign second round pick DT Price >>
Tampa, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers agreed on a four-year
contract with defensive tackle Brian Price, one of the team's 2010 second-
round picks on Tuesday.
Financial terms of the deal were not announced.
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In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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