OKC Favored to Win First NBA Title in Finals Over Pacers

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00:00OKC, a minus 550 favorite, now to win that Larry O'Brien trophy

00:05and be crowned an NBA champion for the first time in their 17 years in Oklahoma City.

00:11DRS' first two games, Indiana steals game number one in historic comeback fashion.

00:16OKC's show, it's resolved in game number two.

00:20To you so far, DRS, what has been the biggest storyline of the 2025 NBA Finals?

00:26The fact that we're one-to-one heading back to Indiana.

00:29Like, I think that's the key ingredient.

00:31The expectations based on the odds makers and most people's opinion was

00:34this wasn't going to be a very competitive series.

00:36It should be 2-0 and maybe the Pacers can make a series out of it

00:40by winning one of two games on their home floor to at least get us to a game number five.

00:44Now, all of a sudden, we automatically have a game number five

00:46because Indiana did win one of those first two games on the road and it was game number one.

00:50Like, you understand this from a viewing perspective.

00:54Once we get to that basketball game, and let's just say it's Oklahoma City Thunder

00:57winning that game, going up 2-1 in that series.

00:59The series is de facto over at this point.

01:01I still think the Thunder win this series even if the Indiana Pacers win game number three

01:06because then I do think that Oklahoma City will come back and win game number four.

01:09Then it's a short sprint, best of three, two games in Oklahoma City's building.

01:13But just from the thought process of the public and buying into it,

01:16we really want to see the Indiana Pacers put up a fight.

01:19And from those first two games, Ben, double-digit spreads effectively in games,

01:22one in games number two.

01:23Game number three, you're now seeing the fives.

01:25But understand this, those fours that we're opening up here in New Jersey

01:28have quickly turned the fives and other outlets at five and a half.

01:31The expectation still, though, even though the spread is in half,

01:34that it's supposed to be a victory for OKC.