Annually July 1^st is the biggest day in all of professional sports, as teams in the NBA and NHL are able to sign the best players looking for new contracts. NBA betting enthusiasts second favorite time of the year kicks off in the heart of summer, and this year could be the best free agent class in history.

This year's free agent class is as big as the 2004 draft class, as superstars from that draft, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh each are eligible to sign with a new franchise in hopes of capturing the elusive NBA title. After each player's current clubs the Cavaliers, Heat and Raptors had disappointing results this past season, all three superstars appear to be wanting a fresh start elsewhere.

Further all three players are represented by the same agency and many fans betting on where the trio will land suspect, two if not all three may play together for one lucky team. Two teams reported to have the money for at least two of the three are the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls. Of the two, the Knicks have the advantage financially as they were able to clear enough cap space to acquire two key off season additions. Fans should know that experts predict that if money is the main factor in James, Wade or Bosh leaving their current teams, the Knicks are the most lucrative option. Conversely, experts believe that if Lebron James leaves the Cavaliers he will end up in Chicago in hopes of helping the Bulls win a championship for the first time since James's idol and hall of famer Michael Jordan did so in 1998. Experts also believe that where James goes, so will Bosh and possibly Wade.

NCAA football betting players just finished a slew of mock drafts to see where the best gridiron players would go, and now basketball players will prepare to do the same as the picture is a bit clearer in the NBA after the lottery was held on Tuesday night.

Washington won the luck of the draw for the first time since 2001, but they'll hope to do better as the Wizards (and then-Director of Basketball Operations Michael Jordan) picked Kwame Brown, who may be the worst No.1 pick of all time. Philadelphia, New Jersey (who had the best chance of landing the top pick), Minnesota and Sacramento round out the top five, and now the choice will be for the Wizards: who will they select, John Wall or Evan Turner?

Wall, the lightning-quick point guard who spent a year at Kentucky, has been the consensus No.1 pick all season, but Turner was the National Player of the Year in his third year at Ohio State. Philadelphia would love to see Turner fall to them at No.2, while four forwards are considered to be in the running for top-five picks: Syracuse's Wes Johnson, and then a trio of power forwards, Wall's Kentucky teammate, DeMarcus Cousins, Georgia Tech's Derrick Favors and Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu.

All told, Wall is too good of a guard to pass up on. The Wizards will obviously look at the last two guards that have been coached by Kentucky's John Calipari, both of whom have been named the past two rookies of the year: Chicago's Derrick Rose, and Sacramento's Tyreke Evans (who Calipari coached at Memphis). Even though he can't turn it around on his own, Wall should be a boost to Washington's betting odds next season.