Celtics Grow Steeper as NBA Title Favorites, Now at -140
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00:00 The Celtics remain an odds-on favorite and the number continues to grow stronger and stronger in favor of the C's.
00:08 Minus 140, Boston now an NBA title favorite once again with that very strong minus money price.
00:15 They have been the title favorite all year long and in the minus money starting with this second round, but there it is at minus 140.
00:24 The biggest change of course is Denver evening its second round series against Minnesota and now the number on the Denver Nuggets plus 370.
00:36 At certain points in the opening round about 10-11 days ago, it was plus 115 for Boston, not far behind the Nuggets by just over a buck at plus 230.
00:48 But Denver entering the weekend as Donnie astutely pointed out, if you had any belief in the reigning NBA champs, the Nuggets,
00:56 that 15-1 price to win the NBA championship looked rather enticing. It's now plus 370.
01:05 It was enticing and I didn't take any piece of it because I was trying to just understand the math of it all, right?
01:10 You're saying, all right, let's just say it's a 2-0 series lead to go back to Minnesota.
01:14 We might not even get to a game five, forget about the Denver Nuggets making it competitive.
01:18 But also just doing the math, winners of four out of five games moving forward is what we have to see here out of the Denver Nuggets.
01:24 I didn't know if that was possible because of how well also that we were watching the Minnesota Timberwolves play.
01:28 They didn't barely get by their first round series against the Suns.
01:31 They eviscerated the Suns and it looked like they were going to eviscerate the Denver Nuggets.
01:35 But here we are, the heart of a champion tied up at two after two big performances in Minneapolis over the weekend.
01:41 Interesting to see what we get out of game five because as I talked about earlier, Ben,
01:45 I don't think it's one of those things where the Timberwolves are like, oh no, we had our chance, didn't come away with that.
01:49 That would be if you were still in a 3-1 disadvantage here.
01:52 It's still 2-2.
01:53 You already won two games on the home court here for the Denver Nuggets.
01:56 So I'm not going to brush this one away, but the 15-1 was so enticing, I didn't take it because quite frankly, it didn't make sense to.
02:03 That was such a long shot.
02:04 Also, maybe a little bit differently, Ben, like, okay, we lost two games on the home court here, but now we're going back home.
02:10 It was the complete opposite for the Nuggets.
02:11 They dropped their home games before going on the road.
02:14 You're not supposed to be alive even in this moment today.
02:16 We should already be talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves moving forward and now we have a 2-2 series tie.
02:21 So the 15-1 was astronomical, but I just couldn't find a way to actually take it.
02:25 But if you did, congratulations, you're in business now.