Exploring NBA Western Conference Team Dynamics and Betting Odds

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00:00All right, let's talk about the NBA. I want to pull up to West first and ask you this question.

00:05So I said that I like the Thunder, the Grizzlies, and the Rockets, and the other teams are all about

00:11ISO superstars. I'm not wrong. You got Joker, you got Luka, you got Ann Edwards, but these other

00:20three teams are actual basketball teams that play basketball and have five and have four more sitting

00:29on the bench that can ball. They got nine deep, all three of those teams. Yeah, and what team

00:34I'm fading right now, right there, plus 850, is the Dallas Mavericks. They just got the news that

00:38Derrick Lively II is coming out for two to three months with a foot fracture. I will say this,

00:42folks, it was, they took it down on Fandle. I'm going to say this, I don't think Dallas even

00:48makes the playoffs. I don't think they make it. My concern with them is they're top-heavy.

00:53Luka's missed 23 games already. Kyrie misses games all the time. They don't have the depth,

00:58so I think you're on to something, Pharrell. Depth matters. Coaching matters. And I am so,

01:05I was so big on Houston before the season started, because take away his training regressions off the

01:11floor. Aimee Odoka is one hell of a coach. He's great. Hell of a coach. And he's got that team

01:18playing well, and they're deep. Think about this. Reed Shepard, don't even see the damn floor.

01:24He doesn't see the floor. And he was the number three pick, and we thought he may have the best

01:27program. He doesn't see the floor. It's thunder, it's nuggets, it's rockets, then there's a drop-off,

01:38but it'll be interesting to see what happens, right? The trade between Utah and Phoenix.

01:44That's a lineup for them trying to get Jimmy Butler, right? A 20-31 pick. Matt Isby don't

01:50care about 20-31. He needs to win now. So he's got some draft capital. Look at them. What about

01:56a team that I think is, that's not even on that board? Like the Beam. I would sell it on them.

02:02Doug Christensen did a hell of a job. That team can make it work. And I actually think, Pharrell,

02:08I'll leave you with this. I think, I think Sacramento is going to win that division.

02:12It was plus 550 on Monday. It's plus 460 now. I know they have the eighth-toughest schedule

02:18the rest of the way, but they're playing well, and I got a feeling they're going to make a move.

02:23Look out for someone like Cam Johnson possibly going to someone like Sacramento.

02:28How about, what if they won 11 of 12? I said earlier, I got a team that, against the spread,

02:33that's been the hottest in January. They were one of the five best, and I said that's because

02:37they'd played the best ball overall in January of any team in the NBA. They have won like 11

02:43of 12. They've been tearing it up.