Cleveland Cavaliers 2025-26 NBA Betting Lines
The 2025 season was one of promise and despair for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland was one of the most impressive teams in the regular season, making a nice profit along the way. But for the second consecutive year, Cleveland did not match that regular season success in the playoffs. Cleveland clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference for the 2025 NBA Playoffs. In his first season as head coach, Kenny Atkinson led the Cavaliers to their second-best regular-season record in franchise history. The trio of SG Donovan Mitchell, PG Darius Garland, and PF Evan Mobley made for one of the best in the Association. But gamblers and fans want to see that success translate into a serious playoff run. Cleveland’s ability to make a deeper postseason run is the top question on the 2025-26 future market.
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Team Overview
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.
Shockingly, the Cavaliers imploded in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, losing 4-1 to the Indiana Pacers in the second round.
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Off-Season Moves for 2025-26
Key additions: Lonzo Ball, Larry Nance Jr.
Key subtractions: Ty Jerome, Isaac Okoro
The Cavaliers are a 64-win team that is spending into the second apron, so they expected to lose Ty Jerome, their Sixth Man of the Year candidate. As Jerome signed a three-year, $27 million contract with the Memphis Grizzlies, Cleveland swapped Okoro for Ball, who replaces the playmaking off the bench. Re-signing old friend Larry Nance Jr. was also a nice bit of business for a front office with zero flexibility.
Gamblers are interested in how much the Cavaliers get from Lonzo Ball, limited to 35 games last season by wrist injuries after 2½ years off the court due to his left knee. Ball was a low-cost pickup for Cleveland to help replace Ty Jerome, lost to help manage the Cavaliers' sizeable tax bill. So too was bringing back Larry Nance Jr. as a third center. Despite the loss of Jerome, Cleveland still looks like the favorite to win the East.
Key Players
Donovan Mitchell is a 6-time NBA All-Star. This past year, Mitchell averaged 24.0 points per game. Mitchell was an NBA All-Star. Previously, Mitchell led the Cavs with 26.6 points and 6.1 assists per game in 2024.
C Jarrett Allen was a 2022 NBA All-Star. 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 past season. The Cavaliers selected him 5th overall in the 2019 NBA Draft out of Vanderbilt. He is a two-time All-Star, including last year.
This past 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 took over last season, 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 last 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 a reputation for being good but not quite great, and they were somewhat snakebit from that point on. 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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