Spurs Guard Tony Parker Injured and the lines are affected. Sports betting could be a little bit different on the San Antonio Spurs as guard Tony Parker is likely to miss the next six weeks. Parker has a broken bone in his right hand and may not return until the end of the online sports betting NBA regular season.
Sports betting can radically change on San Antonio when Parker is out of the lineup. The Spurs are 31-9 this NBA season when Parker is in the lineup and they are just 5-5 without him. That is a major online sports betting difference. The Spurs are not a lock to make the playoffs in the Western Conference and now they will need to hold on tight without their second leading scorer. Parker was hurt in the win over Memphis on Saturday. “I knew it was a scrum,” Spurs’ leading scorer Tim Duncan said, “He said he reached for the ball, and hit the ball or hit a body or a hand or something.”
San Antonio will probably still make the playoffs unless they totally collapse. They might finish in 8th place though which would mean a matchup in the first round against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Spurs are a game ahead of Portland for the last playoff spot but they are 5.5 games ahead of Memphis and Houston who are in 9th and 10th place in the Western Conference.
The Spurs have a tough game on Monday in sports betting at Cleveland but the schedule helps them out a little bit after that. They host the Knicks in a game they should win on Wednesday. They are at Minnesota in another winnable game on Friday before hosting the Clippers on Saturday. On paper, they should win three of their next four even though Parker is out of the lineup. The key for San Antonio will be to get solid production out of some other players like George Hill and Roger Mason. Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili can always be counted on but other players like Richard Jefferson will need to step up their game and provide scoring with Parker out of the lineup. The Spurs could be a team to avoid when you bet NBA games without Parker in the lineup but the odds makers will have adjusted the line so you can’t just automatically go against San Antonio and get a win.