The journey to determine the next NBA champion officially begins Tuesday with a pair of marquee match-ups.

The reigning champs, Oklahoma City, starts their title defense at home against Houston, while Luca Doncic opens his first full season in Los Angeles as the Lakers host Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.

The West is where most of the power in the NBA lies – with OKC, Denver, Houston, Minnesota and others all considered to be contenders. The East’s strength can be found mainly in Cleveland and New York. Key injuries to Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum have left the Pacers and Celtics, respectively, comparatively weaker than in the recent past.

BetSmart was a feature started this September and the subscription package is continuing to add new features to improve your betting experience. Here are some ways a FREE 14-Day BetSmart Trial can help you wager wisely and profit this NBA season.

Arbitrage Bets

There are 17 NBA arbitrage bets currently available on the Arbitrage Betting Tracker. With BetSmart, you can get instant access to see these opportunities and several more across other sports for guaranteed profit.

The Arbitrage tool scans countless sportsbooks to instantly identify arbitrage opportunities. For example, here is an opportunity tonight in the Rockets vs. Thunder game.

Keep in mind, however, these odds change often and fast. Fortunately, BetSmart has a notification feature that gives you immediate alerts, so you can lock in your bets and secure profit before the odds inevitably change.

Positive EV Wagers

You can currently find 143 NBA wagers with the Positive EV betting tool, with which you can gain full access to with BetSmart.

The tool makes Positive Expected Value (or +EV) betting actionable, as it searches thousands of lines in real time, using advanced models to instantly filter and highlight only the wagers that hold a statistical edge. It also provides valuable betting data, including BetSmart Signals with ROI metrics, and how well the bet has performed in the last 5, 10, and 15 games, as well as for the full season.

Middle Betting

There are 170 NBA opportunities currently identified by the Middle Bet Tracker. This will be a useful tool as the season comes into form, as it identifies highly lucrative middle opportunities for BetSmart subscribers, and provides recent ROI data for each market.

With middle bets, you place wagers on both sides of a market where lines are priced slightly differently at separate sportsbooks, and this can result in a big win if the final number lands in between. BetSmart identifies several opportunities for significant payouts with limited risk, as at least one of the bets is guaranteed to win.

For example, with this middle bet on Marcus Smart Total Assists, you can win big if Smart finishes with exactly 2 assists. This is just one of many opportunities in tonight's action.

Prop Finder

There are more than 1,000 NBA player props that can be found and analyzed using the Prop Finder tool – everything from total points, rebounds, assists and more.

The tool provides an efficient way to explore prop betting markets across multiple sportsbooks. You can filter results by game, player, date, and outcome. You can then sort the opportunities by odds, fair probability, and valuable player trends (Success % in Last 5, 10, 15 Games, and full Season) and market ROI to identify the most promising bets.

Most Profitable Markets

BetSmart has recently launched the Most Profitable Markets tool to help reduce guesswork. The feature instantly analyzes thousands of real-time data points, showing you exactly which betting markets have yielded the highest ROI over the past 7, 14, and 30 days, and the full season.

There are currently no NBA markets to track yet, but this will become an important page to monitor after the first week of the season.

Expert Picks

A BetSmart subscription also gives you access to NBA Expert Picks. Pickwatch has been tracking experts for years across all major leagues, and you will be able to see where most of them are leaning on Moneylines, Point Spreads and Totals all season.

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