The biggest story in NBA betting over the past few years has had little to do with on the court action and if you’re looking to make an online wager on NBA action you may find the basketball betting landscape greatly altered after this summer.
In an ideal world, refereeing in professional sports would be non-existent and this would be one aspect of making an online wager that sports betting fans would never have to consider. But to the best of my knowledge we don’t live in a perfect world and errors by the officiating crew happen all the time.
As the great Bill Shakespeare said, or supposedly said, “To err is human” and online wagering fans are all too aware just how human referees can be –especially fans that have made an online wager on the 2010 NBA Finals.
There is simply no way to get around this part of sports betting and most fans can live with this slight margin of error on the part of the officiating crews so long as final result of the game is dictated by a human error, which rarely happens –just ask anyone that regularly makes online wagers. While mistakes do happen, such as the tragic miscall recently in the MLB betting that cost a young pitcher an no-hit perfect game, fans can generally move on with their online wagering and focus on the next game.
But the NBA, and particularly the NBA Finals this year, are so riddled with officiating inconsistencies that it threatens the legitimacy and integrity of the game itself and could have a major impact on the millions of sports betting fans that make online wagers on the NBA.
In no other major sport in the world is the officiating so wildly inconsistent. But this in itself isn’t what’s so bothersome for people who made an online wager on Game 6 of the NBA Finals, for example. From the tip of the ball it became obvious which side was going to win this game and not because one side was so much better than the other. From the first play of the game until the Lakers had secured a double-digit lead late in the game the referees continually looked the other way or failed to blow the whistle on a very aggressive Lakers team. Yet as anyone that made an online wager on the Celtics in that game knows, the same type of defense was an automatic foul on Boston on the other end.
That type of blatant favoritism has made making an online wager on this NBA Finals action a very unappealing online wagering option.