Cleveland Cavaliers 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
First seed in the Eastern Conference for the 2025 NBA Playoffs went to the Cleveland Cavaliers. In his first season as head coach, Kenny Atkinson led the Cavaliers to their second-best regular-season record in franchise history. Cleveland bested the defending world champion Boston Celtics for the top seed. The Cavaliers were led by the best offense in the NBA and had enough defense not to give that advantage back. The trio of SG Donovan Mitchell, PG Darius Garland, and PF Evan Mobley made for one of the best in the Association.
Shockingly, the Cavaliers imploded in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, losing 4-1 to the Indiana Pacers in the second round.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers finished with a regular season record of 64-18 straight up, 48-33-1 against the spread, and 51-31 over/under the total. Cleveland was first in the Eastern Conference playoff standings, three games behind the Boston Celtics.
Cleveland's NBA metrics were 1st for scoring offense, 2nd for field goal percentage, 2nd for 3-point field goal percentage, 17th for free throw percentage, and 6th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Cavaliers' metrics were 14th for scoring defense, 3rd for field goal percentage permitted, 13th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 11th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
Donovan Mitchell is a 6-time NBA All-Star. This year, Mitchell averaged 24.0 points per game. Mitchell is an NBA All-Star this year. Mitchell led the Cavs with 26.6 points and 6.1 assists per game last year. In the 2024 NBA Playoffs, Mitchell averaged 29.6 points and 4.7 assists.
Last season, C Jarrett Allen added 16.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. Allen was a 2022 NBA All-Star. In the playoffs, he averaged 17.9 points and 13.8 rebounds per game. In 2024-25, Allen averaged 13.5 points and 9.7 rebounds per game.
PG Darius Garland scored 20.6 points and 6.7 assists per contest this year. The Cavaliers selected him 5th overall in the 2019 NBA Draft out of Vanderbilt. He is a two-time All-Star, including this year.
This season, PF Evan Mobley averaged 18.5 points and 9.3 rebounds per game. The Cavs selected him third overall in the 2021 NBA Draft out of USC. He is a first-time NBA All-Star this year.
Head Coach
Kenny Atkinson takes over as head coach, arriving from Golden State, where he was an assistant coach. He was the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets from 2016-17 through 2019-20. Atkinson turned in the best season of his career this year.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 7)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2024–25 |
82 |
64 |
18 |
1st, Central |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (Pacers) |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
48 |
34 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (Celtics) |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
51 |
31 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Knicks) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
44 |
38 |
3rd, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
22 |
50 |
4th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2019–20 |
65 |
19 |
46 |
5th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
19 |
63 |
5th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
Cleveland Cavaliers History
The Cleveland Cavaliers were born as an NBA expansion franchise in 1970-71 and struggled to keep the attention of local fans until the late 1980s when they emerged as a quality team under coach Lenny Wilkens. The Cavs developed the reputation of being good but not quite great and somewhat snakebit from that point. The iconic image of Michael Jordan killing them off with the game-winning shot in a playoff series summed up what the Cavaliers were all about in those days.
However, the arrival of local phenom LeBron James in 2003 changed all that. James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first NBA Finals appearance in 2007, and the team posted a franchise-best record of 66-16 during the 2008-09 season. They were a contender for five years, but the lack of a quality supporting class led to James leaving for Miami after the 2010 season. Cleveland went from 61-21 to 19-63 the following year, yet that bottoming out allowed the Cavaliers to draft Kyrie Irving and build a supporting cast for James to return to after four years in Miami.
James turned Cleveland into Believeland upon his return to the Cavaliers. The franchise had its most successful run in history, with James and Irving leading the way, making it to the NBA Finals four straight times. Cleveland knocked off the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals to give the city its first major sports title in decades, leading to widespread joy in the streets.
Once again, James left Cleveland for another team following the 2017-18 season. Kyrie Irving moved on from the Cavaliers, too, at that point, leading to the franchise bottoming out once more. That put the Cavaliers back in the lottery, and they built the team through the NBA Draft once again by taking Collin Sexton, Darius Garland, Isaac Okoro, and Evan Mobley over the last five years.
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