NBA Draft Betting Insights

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6/24/2024

The Whale Capper Drew Dinsick discusses the NBA draft

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00:00NBA draft in a couple days, and I think our audience remembers you stuffing Adrian Wodronowski

00:06in a locker a couple of years ago with the Paolo Bancaro situation, so I think your opinion

00:10on the NBA draft matters a lot to people, matters a lot to us.

00:14So we've seen some interesting movement in the first overall pick market.

00:17I don't even know who these people are, like Zachary, Risa Shay is now the favorite, mine

00:22is 250, Risa Shay, Donovan Klingin from UConn, plus 210, Alexander Assar is born.

00:29I saw a video, by the way, of him dribbling, guy looks like LeBron James to me, what the

00:33hell do I know off of a workout?

00:34Stefan Kassel, who I bet at 75-1 last week, is now 40-1, for whatever that's worth.

00:40That's the first pick market.

00:41So Will, we have a couple minutes here, anything that you like for the NBA draft coming up

00:45in a couple days, which is for some reason a two-night event.

00:50Yeah, buckle up for round two on day two.

00:55Will LeBron James go before or after the 45th pick?

00:59No, it definitely did not need to be two nights, I 100% agree.

01:05And for someone who claims to not know the players, a little golf clap for your pronunciation

01:10of Risa Shay.

01:11Risa Shay, yeah, that was slick, man.

01:14The resatcher, I've heard, I've gotten caught on saying it, I've heard people get caught

01:19saying it.

01:20It's not obviously a French last name, but you nailed it, so well done there.

01:25And yeah, I mean, him being a super heavy favorite to go number one has all the whiffs

01:31of the Jabari Smith from Deja Vu all over again.

01:37I'll kind of paint the landscape as I see it.

01:40The Hawks are a mess of an organization, and I shouldn't say they don't know what they're

01:46doing, but it's a relatively new and kind of very uncertain place that this franchise

01:55finds themselves in.

01:56And then you have a weak GM in Landry Fields.

01:58Who knew?

01:59Did you guys know Landry Fields was a GM?

02:01Did you know that Kyle Korver was an assistant GM?

02:04Yeah, and like Trajan Langdon's running the Pistons now?

02:08It's like it's NBA Mad Libs.

02:09Yeah, yeah, that's right.

02:10Did you guys hear J.J.

02:11Reddick's coaching the Lakers now also?

02:12Yeah, there you go.

02:13There you go.

02:14Surprise.

02:15But yeah, I mean, it's like you have a lot of weak voices, and I say weak in a space

02:23that might sound like somewhat challenging, but really I'm just being like, they're not

02:29entrenched, right?

02:30Like these guys don't have a track record that affords them like, no, they're going

02:34to go through this process.

02:35They're going to evaluate these players.

02:36They're going to make the right call.

02:38We have no idea.

02:39This could be anything.

02:41We don't know that they know what they want to do.

02:42And in fact, if you read or listen to people who kind of have tipped their hand about the

02:46process, it doesn't sound like they know what they want to do yet.

02:49Guess what?

02:50They don't know what they want to do yet.

02:51I mean, you shouldn't have a favorite that's minus two anything, particularly in a draft

02:55that is this weak.

02:57You have weak.

02:58So basically, you have a weak front office, you have a weak draft class.

03:00And I think the potential for there just being some wild uncertainty is very real.

03:06The Alexander Saar aspect of that is maybe the only like hard intel that there is out

03:12there in terms of what's going to happen in the top three.

03:15He's represented by Bill Duffy.

03:17Duffy apparently has specifically steered him away from Atlanta because he wants him

03:22to be sort of the center, you know, the focal point of the offense in Washington as Washington

03:27is in a more sincere rebuild.

03:29The Atlanta question is like it's it's very it's very uncertain, you know, do they tear

03:34it down?

03:35Do they trade Trae Young?

03:36Do they trade Deontay Murray?

03:37Do they you know, do they blow it all up to try to get draft assets?

03:40Because if you look at their future draft capital, you know who has it all the Spurs

03:45like the Spurs are making all of the Atlanta's picks.

03:48So they can't really like make a clear and obvious move to tank unless they, you know,

03:52recoup something in this draft.

03:54So they could trade players.

03:56They could we got 30 seconds left, though, we only got 30 seconds left, whatever.

03:59Like you have like a bet for first overall picker where you're leaning 30 seconds.

04:02I'm with you.

04:03I swung away on Castle just because like he we got news that he was going to Atlanta to

04:08work out.

04:09And you're just like, OK, well, he's going to work out.

04:10They haven't made their decision yet.

04:12He fits like he's he's kind of exactly in the mold of a Jalen Brown type of player.

04:15Oh, yeah.

04:16By the way, the Jalen Brown who just won finals MVP, a guy who, you know, didn't shoot three

04:20point well in college and can lock down point of attack defense and provide, you know, kind

04:25of the perfect, you know, he's six, seven, he's huge as far as, you know, being able

04:28to create as far a point guard shooting guard.

04:31So, yeah, I think Castles is live to go one overall and I bet into it at one hundred to

04:36one.

04:37But we don't really have and I got it and I got it and I got a worse price because Drew

04:40betted at one hundred to one and then Trey Young tweeted the hourglass and then I bet

04:43more on Stefan Castles.

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