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2008 Beijing Olympics Basketball Betting – Team USA Looking to Restore Balance of Power
Men’s Olympic basketball betting is now available at leading online sportsbook, PinnacleSports.com, and though Team USA are overwhelming favourites priced 1.319* in a two way match-up priced to less than 102%, there will be plenty of bettors tempted to back the field at 3.830*.
There is no argument that America possesses the best basketball players in the world, but Team USA as a whole has shown itself to be worth less than the sum of its parts, whereas the opposite is true of the opposition. Consecutive Bronze medals for the US at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2006 World Championships have humiliated the basketball Super Power.
America recorded a hat-trick of Olympic Basketball golds starting with the arrogant 1992 Dream Team win in Barcelona, led by Michael Jordan, a swaggering precedent that was continued in Atlanta and Sydney before finally unravelling in Athens, by which the time the rest of the world caught up.
Basketball has clearly become a more global sport, with increasing numbers of non-US players competing in the NBA. The pressure on the US to trounce opposition has clearly taken its toll with the recent disappointments on the world stage, but a reaction is expected in Beijing.
Comparing the NBA and Olympic Basketball tournament isn’t apples for apples, as the rules of the game are slightly different. Twelve teams will be split into two round-robin groups, with the top four from each going forward to a knock-out format. Team USA play five warm-ups before their opening game against hosts China, led by the giant Yao Ming, who despite playing his last game for the Houston Rockets in February through injury. Leading online sportsbook, PinnacleSports.com price China 1.952 (+30.5)* with USA 1.952 (-30.5)*, the big handicap giving an indication of the perceived gulf in class.
Spain are expected to be Team USA’s closest rivals priced 2.020* in a market without the USA, with Greece 5.110* and 2004 Gold medallists Argentina 7.240*.
The US Women’s Olympic Basketball teams are a very similar price to their male counterparts priced 1.307* to win gold on PinnacleSports.com’s Olympics Women’s Basketball betting. The female Dream Team actually have a much more solid record, taking top place on the podium in five out of the last six Olympics, chasing a fourth consecutive Gold medal in Beijing. The Olympics Women’s Basketball betting at PinnacleSports.com has the field priced at 3.960* in a two way market priced to less than 102%.
*All odds subject to change
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