No one wants to be involved in the NBA All-Star Game, not even the players, so I’m following their lead.
Even though All-star weekend is one of the biggest events on the sports calendar this week, I won’t be betting it — at least not in the weekend wagers column. Boyd Gaming’s BConnected sports app did it make it tempting, though.
It’s the first book locally to post odds of all the annual festivities from the slam dunk contest (Cassius Stanley is a -155 favorite despite the fact that I’m relatively sure he hasn’t played in a real basketball game since leaving Duke) to the actual game (the over/under is set at 308.