Teamīecause the Lakers are the stronger team (56.52 percent chance of winning), for every $10 you wish to win betting on Los Angeles, you must risk $13 ($130 bet will win $100). American odds show one team set as the favorite (indicated by a negative value) and one team designated as the underdog (positive value).įor example, the Los Angeles Lakers are -130 moneyline favorites versus the Toronto Raptors, the +110 moneyline underdogs. Sportsbooks most often display moneyline odds in hundreds (American odds). You can use our odds converter and moneyline calculator to see a team's implied probability based on their odds.
Basketball teams are not always evenly matched, and the moneyline odds will reflect those chances of victory. Sportsbooks generate moneyline odds for a game based on each team's implied probability of winning.
Moneylines: Pick the winner of an NBA gameīetting basketball moneylines is the most straightforward and basic betting market available, simply allowing you to bet on which team you think will win the game. Bettors wager on whether the final score will go Over or Under that expected tally. NBA Over/Under totals are the estimated total number of points scored by both teams in a game.
