Cavs vs. Thunder: Potential NBA Finals Preview Game Highlights

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00:00A short five-game slate on this Thursday evening around the Association, but Donny

00:05Wright's side is fired up for the second time in basically eight days. We see a

00:11matchup that could be an NBA Finals preview. The Cleveland Cavaliers and the

00:16Oklahoma City Thunder. Why last week in the land was considered an NBA Finals

00:21preview and this just a marquee matchup with how liberally we throw out NBA

00:26Finals previews. I'm not entirely sure but our producer extraordinaire Joe

00:30Frizzo making that executive decision. Last week in a land ERS it was the Cavs

00:35as a two and a half point home favorite winning the game 129-122 making a

00:40statement in covering as that home favorite. We saw a lot of points as well

00:47going well over a number that closed around 229, 232 and a half tonight in

00:53Oklahoma City and now the Thunder a slight two and a half point favorite now

00:58down by the hook officially live on FanDuel two points in favor of OKC. How

01:05do you see this marquee matchup playing out tonight between the Thunder and the

01:09Cavs? Yeah I lost round number one I thought OKC on the road getting three

01:13and a half to four points wherever they close that there was the opportunistic

01:16path to take it didn't work out in my direction but I'm buying the dip on this

01:20one too in this you have minus three is the opening line at the FanDuel

01:22sportsbook it's not down live to minus two right here other outlets showing one

01:26and a half so it looks like you are getting some action on the Cavaliers

01:29estimated starting lineups on both sides superstars will be in both sides

01:33everybody's gonna be watching this game I just think Cleveland might just be the

01:36slightly better team at this time and I'll take the points they won round

01:40number one and expectations for me they're gonna win round number two as

01:44well give me the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road to knock off OKC tonight. The

01:49Cavs have only been an underdog three times on this historic start that has

01:54seen the NBA's best record of course the Cavaliers 34 and 5 OKC 33 and 6 the two

02:01best teams in the NBA separated by only a game so back to Cleveland as a dog

02:06perfect 3-0 against the spread two outright victories against the Knicks

02:11the Bucs early in the year and a cover against the Celtics not all that long

02:17ago but did end up losing that game one of the five losses the Cavaliers have

02:21suffered this season OKC has been the best cover team in the NBA the last two

02:27and a half years this year as a favorite 24 11 and 3 against the spread now time

02:33for my favorite game in every NBA game that OKC plays in with Shade Gilgis

02:39Alexander on the floor but I'm Cha his points prop 32 and a half death

02:45taxes around a 30-point performance from SGA he had 31 last week on the road

02:51in Cleveland 84 points the RS in the third quarter between these two teams

02:56which is really why we pushed over that total around 229 and a half to 30 it

03:03wasn't an overly high scoring game for all 48 minutes but the 12 minutes after

03:09the break a lot of offense did we see elsewhere in the NBA tonight keep an eye

03:16on those Detroit Pistons two and a half point favorite tonight against Indiana

03:20Detroit two games above 521 and 19 the Pacers had a six-game win streak snapped

03:28earlier this week without Tyrese Halliburton but still 22 and 19 short

03:33spread in the Motor City what do you like yeah just reading the line here you

03:37take a look at a team that's getting less of a ticket count on Detroit that

03:40line opened up at three still staying around that two and a half point margin

03:43other outlets showing as high as three and a half I'll buy the Detroit Pistons

03:47because that line looks like an eye-opener most now wait a second

03:49Pacers getting points from the Pistons give me the Pistons at home here and I'll

03:53lay the two and a half don't see any props on Tyrese Halliburton for tonight

03:58maybe going to miss this game which could lead to Indiana as a slight road

04:02dog but a time maybe to back Detroit the Kings were also on a seven-game win

04:07streak this week that came to a close under interim head coach Doug Christie

04:12losing till Milwaukee but the second best team DRS in the Western Conference

04:16it's the Houston Rockets yet they're getting four points tonight in

04:20California's capital second leg of a road back-to-back for the Rockets they

04:24could be missing some players this evening yeah 227 and a half down to 226

04:30there that's the reasoning as well worried about that anticipated starting

04:33lineup tonight but for me the Sacramento Kings lighting the beam tonight that

04:36line opened up here in FanDuel in New Jersey at three and a half we now see

04:39the fours I like where that direction is going here I'll lay the four points with

04:43the Kings at home to take care of the Rockets yes feels fitting and if that

04:47lineup in fact is estimated as we believe that line could work even more

04:51to the Kings for tonight's late-night matchup out in northern California by

04:56the way it's Houston in the first leg of the back-to-back against the Nicola

04:59Yoke it's less Denver Nuggets last night won by 21 28 108 on the road at

05:05altitude Jalen Green 34 points Houston second-best record in the Western

05:11Conference 27 and 12

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