Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world and it's easy to see why. Players like Michael Jordan and Steve Nash are household names and betting on Basketball can be really satisfying, especially when it's your favourite team who win! Basketball is a game of skill and stamina and has featured at the Olympics since the early 90s. Placing a bet is easy online and looking up odds is simple too with US teams largely dominating the international sport.

Remarkably though, in the 2004 Olympics which were held in Athens the US did lose some basketball games to Puerto Rico (at 19 points loss) and also to Lithuania. Furthermore, by the time the US team reached the semi-finals they were eliminated by Argentina. Other than that exciting loss though, the US seem to pull some of the best basketball players in the world. Luol Deng, who plays for the Chicago Bulls is a Sudanese-British player who is on a US team and Yao Ming plays for the Houston Rockets but he was originally from China.

You can get odds and place bets on a variety of games, from the NBA Eastern and Western Conferences to those famous NBA All-Star games and special play-offs. One of the wonderful things about betting on basketball games is getting cosy and watching the game play out, you can see the highs and lows and if you know you've got some money riding on it the excitement is palpable. If your team win, your cash winnings could be an even bigger reason to celebrate!