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00:00Donnie back to the Western Conference odds where last year when we were breaking down the NBA campaign
00:05We started to see a change from where the offseason odds were those
00:09Expected to contend for a conference crown in the teams that actually had the best records out west all of last year
00:17and where the odds board was still a little bit hesitant to move teams like the Nuggets and the Warriors and the Suns off those
00:23front-running spots in place teams like the Thunder in the T Wolves in the Grizzlies and
00:30The Mavericks up there now, there is no doubt
00:34Oklahoma City has the best record in the NBA
00:3742 and 9 just pasted the Pelicans last night by 36 at home
00:41Shea Gilgis Alexander continues to average better than 30 points per game
00:46Chet Holmgren is back now for OKC as well
00:50They have an eight-game advantage Donnie an eight-game lead
00:53Do the Thunder for the one spot in the Western Conference in front of the Memphis?
00:59Grizzlies and yet we see the Nuggets who probably have the most pedigree of Western Conference teams in the last few years
01:06At least in the last two three years of winning a conference championship and winning an NBA championship
01:13Still with Nikola Jokic the Nuggets have won seven consecutive games the Lakers added Luka Donchik
01:19They've won six games in a row sitting in that five spot
01:22The Grizzlies are about to be the two seed out west for the third time in the last four years
01:28You have the Clippers the Rockets on the come up the T Wolves the Mavs
01:33The Warriors making some noise with Jimmy Butler Donnie. How do you look at those Western Conference championship odds right now?
01:41Like why would you take it right plus even if we're telling you right now?
01:44Okay, see is the best team in the west does that always mean they advance to the championship rounds here for the nba finals
01:49No, it doesn't it's hard to bet against it. But also price point plus 100 sga gets injured which we don't expect injuries
01:57But they do happen. It's one thing to be left with
01:59Hey, I took a shot on a 35 to one that the best player got injured
02:02I just didn't work out but a plus 100 one injury can massively affect those numbers here that you have even though
02:09We're not anticipating them
02:10But take a look behind them
02:11Do you think the Grizzlies can knock off the thunder?
02:13The Nuggets who do have the playoff pedigree one of those teams that you might look is also they have the advantage of playing at elevation
02:18But when it comes down to it and we talked about the eastern conference where the Cavaliers have a great home record
02:24Look at okc. They are
02:2624 and 3 at home this year. They're going to be home throughout the nba playoffs here in the western conference
02:32So they lost three times
02:33You're gonna have to beat them basically three times in their own building in one series probably to advance to the next round over them
02:39That's what's so tough to overcome. But there is value the farther you go down
02:43You think the lakers can overcome a lot of challenges?
02:45I don't know if they can but they do have the top end pedigree if they get hot to do some damage
02:50Even go further down like making changes for the golden state warriors if they can get hot
02:54They're in the 10th seed right now, but the memphis grizzlies the rockets the clippers, you know
02:59I love and have an affinity for because my guy norm pal plays for them
03:02But it just feels like oklahoma city by far is the best team in the western conference
03:07Which again to the original point was that usually wasn't the case it used like my goodness
03:11Just getting to the nba finals was an achievement to get through those great teams