NBA Western Conference Showdown: Thunder Leads the Pack

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00:00As far as the Western Conference goes, the only thing that's certain is that Oklahoma

00:04City is going to be the one.

00:05They are flying away from everybody in that department.

00:09But look at two through five first.

00:13Houston, Denver, Lakers, Memphis, they're all separated by one game in the loss column.

00:17So there's a lot of jockeying to go on there.

00:20And then look from Golden State, you know, even Golden State, Minnesota Clippers, one

00:25game in the loss separates them.

00:27Then Sacramento's there.

00:29And Dallas, who has been horrible for a while now, I didn't think it was going to happen,

00:40but now I do.

00:41I think the Suns will pass them into that 10th spot.

00:46And I'll even go one further.

00:48I think Portland could pass them.

00:49There are three games back of them in the loss column.

00:51I think Portland could pass Dallas too.

00:52It doesn't matter.

00:53This is like talking about North Carolina and, you know, Alabama State.

00:58Let me tell you what.

01:00So here's the deal.

01:01The Warriors, who seldom come out to play, they're going to matter in the playoffs.

01:08So are the Lakers and the Thunder, obviously, I still say Denver is going to be in the mix

01:17as long as they got Joker, Murray, Gordon, Porter on the floor and even Brody and Brown,

01:27they can beat anybody.

01:29They can beat anybody.

01:30I'm telling you.

01:31So I still think it's the Thunder, Nuggets, Lakers, and Dubs.

01:37I think someone like Steph Curry, if you know, I don't know what it'll be, who they'll play,

01:43but I still think someone can knock Houston out.

01:46To me, they're young and they're really good.

01:47They're really exciting.

01:48But some veteran team like with LeBron James or Steph Curry or the Joker are going to beat

01:56them.

01:57Well, if you go by the odds board, they say there's four teams, Thunder, Nuggets, Lakers,

02:03Warriors.

02:04And then there's a very big gap after that.

02:06So they have six to one Lakers, six to one Nuggets, seven to one Warriors.

02:10The outsiders, the T-Wolves, they're legit and they have everything, but they're the

02:16outsider.

02:17So I would agree with the, I mean, I just said it, the top four that I talked about

02:22are the four.

02:23And I had no idea that those were the odds in the Western Conference that you were going

02:28to show.

02:29I just, all I know is that the optics of thinking of the teams that I watch every night and

02:35that we bet on and that perform at the highest level are, those are the best teams without

02:42a doubt.

02:43I mean, not even, it's not even a question.

02:46And finally here, quickly, I give you this every week and there's actually a couple changes

02:50this week.

02:51The Cavs have overtaken the Thunder, the best ATS team in the NBA this year, Cavs now the

02:56best ATS team.

02:58And the Blazers got into the top five now of the best ATS teams this season.

03:03And the Sixers are now the worst as they have fallen below the Suns, the worst ATS team

03:09in the NBA.

03:10Yeah.

03:11But if you give them like a 16 and a half, like last night, they covered.

03:16They did.

03:17With a skeleton crew, they were able to cover that big number last night.

03:21So it is possible.

03:22Damn bones.

03:23It can happen.

03:24Damn bones.

03:25I think a lot of their, a lot of their ATS losses were like when they're good players

03:29play.

03:30You know, like with Embiid, Paul George, I think that's where a lot of their, where a

03:35lot of their damage was done.

03:37Who's Embiid?

03:39On those numbers.

03:40Oh, he, yeah, that's right.

03:42We haven't seen him.

03:43We probably won't see him for a while.

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