NBA All Star Betting Odds

This will be the 62nd edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and it will be played during the 2012–13 NBA season. This year 2013 NBA All-Star Game will be played on February 17, 2013 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, at 7:00 pm EST.

State Farm All-Star Saturday Night, an all-inclusive skills showcase, will take place on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Toyota Center in Houston and will be televised live by TNT at 8 p.m. ET. The event consists of the Shooting Stars, a competition featuring NBA players, WNBA players, and NBA legends; the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, a contest of top guards working against the clock to complete a series of passes, free throws, layups and agility drills; the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest; and the Sprite Slam Dunk contest.

The All-Star competitions will tip off on Friday, Feb. 15th, as the league’s top rookies and second-year players square off in the Rookie Challenge. The excitement will continue the next day with NBA All-Star Saturday Night, which includes Shooting Stars, a competition featuring NBA and WNBA players and NBA legends, Skills Challenge, a contest of top guards working against the clock to complete a series of passes, free throws, lay-ups and agility drills, and the Three-Point Shootout, where six of the best long-range shooters compete against each other and the clock in a test of accuracy. The evening’s grand finale, the Slam Dunk Contest, will showcase some of the NBA’s best athletes as they take to the air mystifying fans with their gravity-defying creativity.

2013 will mark the 29th year that Turner Sports will provide NBA All-Star coverage, and the 11th consecutive year the All-Star Game will be televised in prime time on TNT. The All-Star Game will be seen by a worldwide television audience in more than 200 countries and territories and broadcast in more than 40 languages

NBA All-Star weekend offers basketball bettors a change of pace as sportsbooks roll out a wide variety of prop bets. Most professional gamblers avoid the NBA All Star game betting since the game is basically an exhibition. Let’s look at some factors to consider in NBA All Star game odds. NBA All Star game odds have seen the Western Conference favored in recent seasons with the total in the 250’s. The game is one in which no defense is played which leads to high scores. The problem with betting the over though is that the total is so high and the public is always betting that way. It is tough for many gamblers to look at the game and cheer against points being scored. The oddsmakers know this and set a high total every year for the NBA All Star game.

2013 All Star Break Schedule

Friday, Feb. 15 All Star events schedule:

NBA TV- BBVA Rising Stars Challenge practice from 10:30 a.m.-noon ET

NBA TV - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announcement at 12 p.m. ET

NBA TV - NBA All-Star Media Day featuring live interviews with participants from 12:30-3 p.m. ET

Broadband coverage of all events will be on NBA.COM

ESPN - Sprint NBA All-Star Celebrity Game – 7 p.m. ET

Radio on ESPN Radio and Broadband on Watch ESPN

TNT - The BBVA Rising Stars Challenge at 9 p.m. ET

Saturday, Feb 16 All Star events schedule:

NBA TV - Coverage of Eastern and Western Conference All-Star practices from 12-1:30 p.m ET

NBA TV - Will televise the 2013 NBA D-League All-Star Game at 3 p.m. ET

NBA TV - Will exclusively air Commissioner David Stern’s All-Star Press Conference at 7 p.m. ET

No radio coverage of these events but broadband will be at NBA.COM

TNT will air a special edition of Open Court: All-Star Edition at 7 p.m. The critically-acclaimed, one-hour roundtable discussion will be hosted by Ernie Johnson with Charles Barkley, Regie Miller, Steve Kerr, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith,  Chris Webber and Steve Smith.

TNT - State Farm All-Star Saturday Night, including the Sears Shooting Stars competition, Taco Bell Skills Challenge, Foot Locker Three-Point Contest and Sprite Slam Dunk contest, will be televised live with coverage beginning at 8 p.m. ET

Feb. 17  All Star coverage schedule:

NBA TV - Sprint Pregame Concert at NBA All-Star at 6 p.m  ET

TNT - Will exclusively televise the 2013 NBA All-Star Game presented by Kia Motors with coverage beginning at 7 p.m.  

Radio on ESPN and Broadband at NBA.COM - TNT Overtime. 

2012 All Star Results

The NBA All Star Game final results gave the West Conference the win, 152-149. Kevin Durant won the MVP award after scoring 36 points and Blake Griffin preformed some of the best dunks in history plus 22 points.

2012 All-Star Game
Team	1	2	3	4	Final
East	28	41	43	37	149
West «	39	49	36	28	152
MVP: Kevin Durant (Pts:36, Reb:7, Ast:3)

2011 All Star results

Rookies

Sophomores

2010 All Star results

Dwyane Wade leads East over West in All-Star game.

MVP Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh, recruited by their peers all weekend, led the East to a 141-139 victory against the West in the 59th All-Star Game. They combined for 76 points, 21 rebounds and 18 assists, with Bosh hitting the game-winning free throws with five seconds left.

NBA All Star Game History

The first NBA All-Star Game that was ever played was in Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. Since then, the game has marched the best players in the Western Conference with the best players in the Western Conference.

There are two ways of choosing the participants for this game. The first is via fan ballot, with the leading vote recipients at each position starting the game, secondly the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches of each squad’s particular conference. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players. The commissioner will select a replacement in case of an injury.

The coaches who currently lead the team with the most wins in their conference through the Sunday two weeks before the game will coach their respective conferences. However, the same coach cannot coach the team in consecutive seasons.

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