Eastern Conference Odds Overview: Celtics and Cavs Lead

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00:00We flip it over to the East, and it just feels, and rightfully so, Joe, it's the top two.

00:05But it's been that way throughout the regular season, and now the start of the playoff picture

00:08here. The Celtics, who aren't the one seed, they are the two seed, but they are the favorites to

00:13win the Eastern Conference at a minus 145 price. That even with the injury situation at Tatum,

00:18where the expectations are he is going to return sooner than later, but certainly not on the court.

00:22The Cleveland Cavaliers, a plus 175 price, handling their business early in the series

00:26against the Miami Heat. Then the drop-off comes. The Knicks at 13-1. The Pacers at 22-1. The Bucs

00:32at 85-1 to win this conference. The Pistons, who are playing the Knicks well, 140-1. Let's start

00:39up top. Agreement there for you, Joe, that it's the Celtics and the Cavaliers by a wide margin,

00:44and you agree with those price points, even if the Celtics are still currently listed as the

00:48favorite. Well, I think anybody on that left side there, Celtics, Cavs, Knicks, Pacers, are all

00:55legit and can make a run here. We know that. I think the Tatum injury is interesting to his wrist.

01:03I don't think they need him to beat the Magic in this series by any stretch here, but it's going

01:09to be interesting. What is the lingering effects of that wrist injury moving forward? And listen,

01:15the Cavs have been the best team in the East all year long. There's no reason why we shouldn't

01:21consider them the front runner here, but you're the champs until somebody beats you,

01:26and we'll see how that works. But I wouldn't sleep on the Knicks and the Pacers. How many

01:29more times do we have to watch the Pacers do this? You know, they're playing the best basketball

01:34we've seen in a long time, and they've got experience now.

01:37The Cavs have been in the next one. They've got experience now. This is what they're doing.

01:47We're talking about the Cavs have been a long time and a lot of times, and they're doing

01:56a lot of times when they've got experience now. Let's see what we watch about the Cavs have been

02:01there.