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Top NBA Championship Contenders: Celtics, Nuggets, Suns, Bucks
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12/13/2023
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But we entered the year with a group of the big four,
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two teams out of the Eastern Conference, Boston and Milwaukee.
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Two teams out west, the reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets and
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the Phoenix Suns that were the only four teams with three digits in their NBA
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championship odds, and that's where it remains.
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The Celtics remain the favorite.
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It's where they were in the preseason plus 380.
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Now plus 370 for the Celtics.
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Denver entered the year with one of those best prices, tied for
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the third best odds at plus 550.
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They're a mover up the board, take off $1.50.
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The Bucs back by just over a half dollar, but still plus 440.
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And Phoenix moves back by $1 as well, plus 550 to plus 650.
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But Donnie, the story for me remains, there's four teams, and
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only four teams that the odds makers look at as the truest contenders
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to win an NBA championship this season.
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>> I would agree with it though, to be honest.
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And also one of the bigger market movers so far in the early season has been
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the Philadelphia 76ers.
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And look, I am a Sixers fan.
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Over the summer, a part of me was saying repeatedly,
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this seems like a throwaway season for the Sixers.
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You're not gonna get much for James Harden.
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Do you wanna burn out Joel Embiid in a season that you can't do anything with?
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And this might be a best version of the Sixers that we've seen over the past two
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to three years, at least early in the season.
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I know there's a long way to go, injuries do happen.
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But Joel Embiid is a better version of his MVP self from last year,
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which is pretty impressive.
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But if we do focus on the top here,
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doesn't it feel like it is a four team league at this point right now?
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If you sold me on the Celtics to win a championship, I'd buy it.
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If you sold me on the Nuggets, same thing.
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The Milwaukee Bucks, absolutely.
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And the Phoenix Suns have the star power if they get right and
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stay healthy once the playoffs come, of course, they can win it as well.
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Then you hit that second tier of teams that we're talking about.
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The Sixers, the Lakers, the Warriors, the Timberwolves,
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all nice basketball teams.
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But when we put them in a seven game series against each other,
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nobody's selling me that those teams are gonna be able to beat those top 14
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that we talked about here.
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So unlike the NFL where it's like, okay, you got the 49ers up top and
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it's like, boy, oh boy, maybe five or six teams can actually win this.
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It looks like it's really only four teams that could possibly win a championship
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in the NBA, barring disastrous injuries.
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