NBA Title Odds Update: Celtics & Thunder Lead the Way

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00:00Same story here DRS at the end of the NFL season if you will the Celtics the reigning champs

00:05Who have been the favorites all year long remain exactly that plus 195

00:10But the Thunder have closed the gap plus 230 just 35 cents behind the Cavaliers at this

00:17Current moment half the best record in the NBA. Excuse me

00:20The best win percentage is now with OKC but Cleveland at 42 and 10 best record in the Eastern Conference at plus

00:28850 Knicks

00:30Nuggets they route out the top by the Lakers move back ever so slightly after the Mark Williams trade

00:36Was rescinded and taken back at 22 to 1 the Grizzlies had that second best mark in the Western Conference

00:43So note these odds right now and Donnie the story is still

00:48That tier of two very short at the top the Celtics in the Thunder getting closer to neck-and-neck

00:55Yeah, and also it's interesting to still see when you see the you know standings they're 42 and 10

01:00That's the Cleveland Cavaliers not the Boston Celtics the Celtics are 37 and 16

01:04They're five and a half games clear

01:05But yet you take a look at that price point plus 195 and plus 850

01:09I'm always have to remind the viewers the NBA always priced a lot differently because the anticipation is once you get to the playoffs if

01:15You're healthy a seven game series

01:17The Crean's gonna rise to the top not like we saw last night with the Philadelphia Eagles in the Kansas City Chiefs got one game

01:22To prove it if you bring your a game the other team doesn't you win?

01:25You don't get a second chance to try to climb back into that said series

01:29So the Celtics are plus 195 not really a bettable price for me

01:33Even though we do think they're the best team in the NBA just not record wise right now

01:37Okay, see getting Chet Holmgren back that plus 230 makes a ton of sense

01:41But the Cavaliers again if it's lining up unless they collapse they're gonna have home court advantage in the Eastern Conference

01:47Which is a big deal

01:48But also the NBA the haves and the have-nots like I don't think the Lakers should be 22 to 1

01:53That's not even a betting price. I'm maybe 35 to 1 or 40 to 1

01:56Well, Donnie, you can't do that

01:57I get it

01:57But who else you gonna put in there the Bucs losing Anthony Kupo for a couple weeks now

02:0232 to 1 price the Grizzlies do you trust them at 27 to 1 the Clippers, you know, I love it 36 to 1

02:07So when you look at the Lakers, but then try to look at the other teams like it actually makes sense

02:12They're 22 to 1 and not 35 to 1

02:16Changing and moving odds and what was a moving and transformational NBA trade deadline week

02:21But it still feels Donnie

02:23Like those teams at the top who did not have to make a blockbuster deal to be considered a contender

02:28Yeah

02:29Or that do the Cavaliers have something to say 42 and 10

02:33Five and a half games clear of Boston for that one seed in the Eastern Conference

02:38Perhaps you would still give the C's the pedigree not just based on the NBA championship a season ago

02:44But all that this young core is done together in the Eastern Conference the Thunder still on the come up

02:50They have a seven and a half game lead in the Western Conference

02:54The Grizzlies have been the two seed often in the last few years in the Western Conference

02:58Can they make do on it? The Nuggets have some pedigree the Knicks a small bit of pedigree

03:04But again, those two top teams really there for a reason

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