{"id":821561,"date":"2026-07-24T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:12:10","slug":"world-cup-knicks-are-boons-to-june-betting-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821561\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup, Knicks are boons to June betting handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-betting \">The World Cup has sportsbooks on pace to reverse six consecutive months of year-on-year decline, with June handle tracking 26% higher than last June in the 24 states that have reported results for that month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-betting \">Some of that likely came from the New York Knicks\u2019 five-game run through the NBA Finals, as evidenced by an eye-popping 36% year-on-year boost for sportsbooks in New York. But the World Cup likely accounted for the bulk of the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-betting \">North Carolina also saw a 36% bump over last year. The only state to decline was Kansas, which no longer benefits from a vast pool of Missouri border-crossers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-betting \">The digits:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ODEAD3E5KJF2HHGC64DCKVM5DU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"1558\"\/>sports betting handles july 24 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Cup has sportsbooks on pace to reverse six consecutive months of year-on-year decline, with June handle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-821561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}