2024-25 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Oklahoma City’s road to a NBA championship got a little smoother with the Thunder’s Game 7 win over Denver to advance to the Western Conference Final. OKC leapfrogged Boston as the NBA futures odds favorite about midway through the regular season and remained in the top spot into the postseason. While the Thunder were the overall favorite, a pair of teams from the Eastern Conference were close behind. The defending champion Celtics won 61 games and finished 10 games ahead of third place New York. The Cavs had the second most regular season wins in franchise history winning the East with a record of 64-18. Both teams cruised through their first round matchups only to endure injuries and get upset in the second round. One of those teams losing in the second round would’ve been a surprise, but both coming up short set the NBA ablaze. If you had the Knicks and Pacers in the conference final, congratulations you hit it big.
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Oklahoma City’s road to a NBA championship got a little smoother with the Thunder’s Game 7 win over Denver to advance to the Western Conference Final. OKC leapfrogged Boston as the NBA futures odds favorite about midway through the regular season and remained in the top spot into the postseason. While the Thunder were the overall favorite, a pair of teams from the Eastern Conference were close behind. The defending champion Celtics won 61 games and finished 10 games ahead of third place New York. The Cavs had the second most regular season wins in franchise history winning the East with a record of 64-18. Both teams cruised through their first round matchups only to endure injuries and get upset in the second round. One of those teams losing in the second round would’ve been a surprise, but both coming up short set the NBA ablaze. If you had the Knicks and Pacers in the conference final, congratulations you hit it big.
NBA Betting Lines
2024/25 NBA Championship Odds
| ODDS TO WIN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP 2024/25 |
| Indiana Pacers +810 |
Minnesota Timberwolves +570 |
| New York Knicks +450 |
Oklahoma City Thunder -181 |
*Odds as of Monday, May 19, 10:00 AM ET
Oklahoma City Thunder
The second round was nearly a disaster for the NBA futures odds favorites. The Thunder prevented a total collapse with a blowout win over Denver in Game 7 of their series. It was an indication that the young club has matured using last year’s second round loss Dallas as motivation. It’s a good thing OKC has young legs since they are the only team left that has played a seven-game series. Though votes are already supposedly cast, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made a final statement for league MVP scoring 35 points in the series clincher over Denver. The most efficient team on both ends of the floor during the season, the Thunder sparkled defensively in Game 7 holding the Nuggets to 39 percent shooting and limiting Nikola Jokic to only nine field goal attempts.
New York Knicks
The Knicks lost all four games to Boston during the regular season with three of them being blowouts. It didn’t matter since New York looked like a different club rallying from 20-point deficits in each of the first two games on the road to shock the Celtics in six. Some will say the series win is muted since Boston lost Jayson Tatum to an Achilles injury, Jaylen Brown was playing with a knee issue and Kristaps Porzingis was not 100 percent. The Knickerbockers still had to show up and play and they did, especially in Game 6. Needing a win to avoid a Game 7 in Boston, four Knicks topped 20-points and they led by as many as 41 eventually settling for a 119-81 victory. Jalen Brunson has scored at least 30 points in six playoff games and is averaging 29 points in the postseason.
Minnesota Timberwolves
If the Thunder used their second round loss last year as motivation, the Wolves can lean on their loss to Dallas in the 2024 West final as inspiration. The Wolves proved they are a conference final team and not a team that last year reached the conference final. They manhandled the Warriors after coach Chris Finch called out star Anthony Edwards following a Game 1 loss. Edwards averaged 27 points shooting nearly 50 percent from the floor in the next four games. Edwards has gotten plenty of support from Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley. The Wolves scored a pair of wins over OKC this season, including one on the road, and they averaged nearly 119 points against one of the NBA’s better defensive teams.
Indiana Pacers
The Pacers are back in the East final looking to at least secure a victory. They were swept by eventual champion Boston last year, but few remember how close those games were. Indy dropped the opener in overtime and lost the last two games by a total of six points. Being the lower seeded team the Pacers will need to win at least one game on the road. They’ve excelled in that role this postseason winning all three games in Cleveland against the East’s best home team. The Pacers are 4-1 this postseason on the road. The up-tempo attack flustered the Cavs and helped Indy win Game 7 in MSG to take last year’s second round matchup with the Knicks.
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