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The Washington Wizards' Gilbert Arenas has been suspended indefinitely by NBA commissioner David Stern for bringing firearms into the Verizon Center reducing the likelihood of the Wizards being picked as winning NBA picks in the near future. See our follow-up blog post for more commentary on this situation and part of the reason this type of situation comes about at this time of the year. The original story, it turns out, was a far cry from the current description of what actually happened.

Over two weeks ago reports surfaced that Gilbert Arenas brought firearms into his Verizon Center Locker. Gilbert explained that the guns were not loaded and his intention was simply to get the weapons out of his house because his wife had just had a baby and he no longer wanted firearms in the house. At the time, speculation was that the incident sounded harmless enough and would probably blow over, it even painted Gilbert Arenas as a responsible father. Gilbert Arenas has already got a reputation of missing too many games and he certainly doesn't need to start missing more games due to his own foolishness. At first, his explanation, along with his action of asking team security to dispose of the guns through proper police procedures could well have ended the incident.

Unfortunately for Arenas, the Wizards NBA Picks fans and the rest of the team, Gilbert Arenas decided to make a joke about the whole thing at the same time that more serious reports surfaced about the original incident. He playfully gunned down his team members after the Wizards recent win in Philadelphia. His team members laughed but David Stern did not. In effect, Arenas pointed his play gun at himself and it fired a real bullet. Stern suspended Arenas indefinitely without pay. The Wizards supported the decision and have publicly denounced Gilbert's behavior.

Arenas has now publicly apologized for his behavior. Gilbert Arenas released the following statement: "While I never intended any harm or disrespect to the NBA or anyone else, my gun possession at the Verizon Center and my attempts at humor showed terrible judgment," he said. "I take full responsibility for my conduct." The further accounts of this incident accuse Arenas of actually loading at least one of the weapons in the presence of other team members and other questionable actions but these are not yet substantiated. Arenas' mia copa is likely too little and too late at this point and there is a very good chance he will have most of the rest of the season to think it over.

At JRTips we're not opposed to big guns! Our bodyguard has big guns. We just think maybe Gilbert should show off his big guns on the court in support of our Wizards' NBA Picks in the future rather than in the locker room.

January is a very good month to profit when sports betting for the informed expert sports handicapper making educated NBA Picks. The reason you can take advantage of winning NBA Picks during the month of January is you can count on daily inside information coming to you from throughout the NBA with many variables that will directly affect the outcome of your NBA picks for the game. However, if you are able to factor all of the plus signs against the minuses and weigh these against the end results you can often offset the spread completely.

As an expert NBA picks handicapper, also, past years of sports betting will alert you that it is close to the midpoint of the NBA season and the teams are getting tired and losing focus. The general lack of excitement playing in NBA games that do not have as much attention or significance as other games later in the season, creates this situation each and every year.

It is a significant enough distraction for the players that it often causes them to be unable to play at their highest professional level from game to game at this point in the season. Yes, I hear the nay sayers! They shout "Pay me $110 million dollars on a multi-year contract deal and I will be so alert they'll check me for cocaine use three times a game. It is easy to say; but hard to do, even for these professionals.

See our preceding blog post on Gilbert Arenas' gun possession and indefinite suspension. It is a perfect example of the problem I am pointing to here. We'll give you the fact that Gilbert pretty much took the situation to a complete new level. He is giving up over $100,000 per game in just personal income for every game he sits out. Further he is again disappointing his team by embarrassing himself, all of his team members and losing additional playing time when the team needs both his scoring and his leadership. Well, the right kind of leadership!

Sports betting in the NBA can be fairly predictable for an expert sports handicapper that pays attention to all the trends and tendencies that a long NBA season has to offer. Unlike the other sports, trends in the NBA give you more value when betting the NBA teams because you are dealing with only twelve players on teams playing three to four games every week, many on the road. So the human element of habit comes into play. An expert sports handicapper will take a look at every trend that can possibly give a betting advantage when making his NBA Picks.

For instance, there are only twelve players on each NBA team and the players tend to play at the same beat or rhythm. When NBA teams play on the road, they go out and party together as they have more freedom and time on their hands. Invariably, they subject themselves to more distractions on the road. This can throw off their rhythm and hinder their focus. This is one major reason why home favorites have won straight up at nearly a 70 percent clip over the past 3 years.

NBA players thrive on energy, passion and acceptance from the fans, so road distraction combined with players not giving one hundred percent effort, due to these distractions can easily affect play. This can be especially true for the very top tier players, who, due to their popularity, can find even more distractions on the road. Continuing distractions can often cause loss of momentum, depletion of personal or team focus and, if not reversed quickly, long losing streaks.

As an expert sports bettor, it is our job to be aware when a team is gaining or losing momentum in order to continue to make winning NBA Picks. NBA teams can gain or lose momentum for many other reasons too. They may be upset due to injuries to their top players or stressed because of a game they just cannot get up for, either due to the above mentioned factors or simply the long X factors such as personal stress increasing during an NBA season. Generally speaking, the team with the strongest motivation and greatest focus is going to be the next NBA Champion. Therefore, evaluating team and player motivation is your greatest sports betting value in all sports and is most crucial in looking for NBA trends.

NBA Picks Mid Season Must Take Injuries into Consideration

In our last blog report we talked about the lack of excitement playing in NBA games that do not have quite as much significance as games later in the season, that this creates a distraction for the players often causing them not to play at their highest level of ability from game to game at this mid point in the season. See our earlier post on Gilbert Arenas' gun possession and indefinite suspension as a perfect example of the problem created by distractions.

In addition to players losing focus, sports betting in the Month of January will provide other sports handicapping variables as well and the one that is always the most important is injuries. When an expert handicapper does his due-diligence, he has to analyze how each injury will affect the daily sports betting line before making winning NBA Picks.

Injury in the NBA affects the betting line more than any other sport especially in the month of January. We looked specifically at the first week of January, many NBA teams are playing with major injuries to their team as some top tier teams have suffered extensively from injury. The current NBA Champion, Los Angeles Lakers are a good example. They have been missing Paol Gasol who has been in and out of the lineup and Ron Artest, who was out of the line up over the entire week.

The Boston Celtics had to play without their go-to man Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett who has been in and out of the lineup as well. While the Denver Nuggets' Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups both sat out Tuesday’s game as Billups had been out for two weeks. Expert handicapping facts to support the significance of these injuries show you that Denver is 2-6 ATS without Billups and 1-2 without Anthony. The Celtics are also 2-0 against the total without their defensive stopper Kevin Garnett and since Artest has been out, the Lakers are 5-0 against the total.

Before making your NBA Picks, one handicapping rule in the NBA is this: no defensive stopper, no defense. This is backed up by Ron Artest coming back on Tuesday that saw the game go under the total by 33 points which is not a coincidence. An expert handicapper will realize that odds makers will continue to post high numbers making the public pay a price for betting the favorite, although in the month of January, these numbers will be inflated because of the handicapping variables mentioned.

Handicapping facts to back this up shows Boston is 4-6 ATS, the Lakers 4-6 against the spread and the Orlando Magic 2-7-1 against the spread in their last 10 games. Before making your NBA Picks, pay attention to these variables in your sports betting handicapping throughout NBA Dog days and for more expert handicapping information to give you winning NBA Picks go to http://www.jrtips.com.