Cleveland Cavaliers 2024 NBA Championship Odds
One of the great success stories in NBA coaching is JB Bickerstaff of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Bickerstaff took over in crisis during the middle of the 2019-20 season and has methodically improved the team from 22-50 in his first full season to 51-31 last year. The Cavaliers are battling with the Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, and Philadelphia 76ers for the second spot in the Eastern Conference. Bickerstaff has used an emphasis on defense to enable Cleveland to overcome its lack of scoring. The arrival of Donovan Mitchell from the Utah Jazz did help the Cavs as far as having a go-to man, but their secondary scoring remains a concern.
2024 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Betting Lines
At the approach of the All-Star Break, the Cleveland Cavaliers are 31-16 straight up, 25-22 against the spread, and 21-25 over/under the total. Late on, Cleveland has covered seven out of their last ten games. While the Cavaliers have gone under the total in seven of its previous ten matchups. Cleveland is 3rd in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Cleveland is 5.5 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Cleveland has NBA metrics of 20th for scoring offense, 12th for field goal percentage, 22nd for 3-point field goal percentage, 20th for free throw percentage, and 7th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Cavaliers have NBA metrics of 3rd for scoring defense, 4th for field goal percentage permitted, 9th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 8th for defensive rebounding.
Cleveland Cavaliers Key Players
SG Donovan Mitchell was the 13th overall pick of the 2017 NBA Draft out of Louisville by the Denver Nuggets. Mitchell is a 5-time NBA All-Star, including this season. Mitchell is averaging 28.2 points, 5,5 rebounds, and 6.4 assists per game.
PG Darius Garland is averaging 19.4 points and 5.7 assists per game. Garland was the 5th overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers out of Vanderbilt. He was an All-Star in 2022 and a 2018 McDonald’s All-American.
PF Evan Mobley is averaging 15.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. Mobley was a 2nd round pick in the 2022 NBA Draft out of USC by the Cavs.
C Jarrett Allen is averaging 15.5 points and 10.7 rebounds per contest. Allen was the 22nd overall pick of the 20176 NBA Draft out of Texas by the Brooklyn Nets. He was a 2022 NBA All-Star.
Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach
JB Bickerstaff was a career NBA assistant for several teams before landing with the Cavaliers in 2019-20. Previously, he was also an interim head coach of the Houston Rockets.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 5)
SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
2022–23 |
82 |
51 |
31 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in First Round, 4–1 (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.
NBA Teams
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Eastern Conference - Central
Eastern Conference - Southeast
Western Conference - Northwest
Western Conference - Pacific
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