2025 NBA FINALS BETTING ODDS

[durden_tyler]

One sided NBA Finals, on paper and in Vegas. Currently, the Thunder are at around -700 to win the championship. This is the tallest odds since the Warriors (2018 vs the Cavs) which were favored by -1100. (The Warriors went on to win that series via sweep)

Other "mismatched" NBA Finals were the first three-peat Lakers;

2000 vs the Pacers, Lakers favored -800, won 4-2
2001 vs the Sixers, Lakers favored -2000, won 4-1
2002 vs the Nets, Lakers favored -740, won 4-0

For more Vegas context, here are the other sort of one-sided match-ups (but not as big as this year's Thunder) with the favored team eventually beating the underdogs in the NBA Finals;

2023 Nuggets (-430) vs the Heat, won 4-1
2021 Lakers (-350) vs the Heat, won 4-2

On the flipside, here are the underdogs (though not as big as this year's Pacers) that eventually pulled off the upsets in the NBA Finals;

2019 Raptors (+230) vs the Warriors, won 4-2

The Cavaliers (+180) and the Bucks (+160) against the Warriors and Suns won in 2016 and 2021, respectively, but not really that much of a big underdog. You'd have to go way back to the 2004 Pistons (vs Lakers) as +500 underdogs for that big NBA Finals upset-- which was the biggest one (via Vegas odds) the last 20 or even 30 years).

Badly want to bet on the Pacers and for them to pull off the upset. but this is just not going against the Thunder-- it's going against history and Vegas too!

[durden_tyler]

Dumb bets incoming but hey maybe the Pacers pull off some more miracle wins!


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