The Oklahoma City Thunder and the ruling champion Boston Celtics They are a popular consensus that will win the title of this season, showing on +180 and +190 courses in ESPN BET when Postseason NBA is launched.
However Los Angeles LakersProbably the busiest team of the league from their stunning trade Doncic In February, Lurk just below A are an easily popular group of the betting public.
The Lakers are +1300 to win the NBA 2025 finals and the fourth on the ESPN Bet’s Shabs council, but attract 16.7% of the bets and 19.5% of the handles in the sports book. Other sports books report similar metrics, while Fanduel reports an incredible 27% of money support LeBron James And society, while Betmgm names them as the second largest responsibility.
“As far as responsibility is concerned, it is Lakers and then everyone else,” said ESPN Bet director of North American sports trading Adrian Horton via e -mail. “They attracted interest in the first half of the season, but it is really kicked from Luke of the store. As the team continues to stand out and the betting public is still supporting them, we will be in almost every Play -off scenario against the Lakers.”
The book also states that LA has taken the front 23.9% of the bets and 27.6% of the handle since the Doncic 1.
Celtics, favorites that started the 2024-25 campaign after they went to wire last season as favorites, still gain their fair share in the event, and draftkings report more betting (34%) and manage (24%) than anyone else.
Oklahoma City, who locked the best NBA record during the regular season, was the second violin to Boston throughout the season before it was just moving forward on the eve of Play -Off. The event is mixed on Thunder in the sports box market.
The Cleveland Cavaliers He enters Postseason with the third best course to win all this and show +575 in ESPN. Although CAVS ended the regular season with the best record of the Eastern Conference, they could not overtake the Celts for their favorite status because they launched a campaign with such low expectations and entered the +4000 season to win it. This means that Cleveland is a top-three team that captured the title Bet-Share in most sports books.
Other big drivers since the beginning of the season include Houston Rockets (100-1 to 80-1), Seed No. 2 West and Detroit Pistons (1,000-1 to 250-1) who are the third largest responsibility of Betmgm.
Two other recent champions, Golden State Warriors (+1500) and Denver Nuggets (+3000) are also in the run, fifth and sixth on the ESPN BET Council and is also one of the highest bet and process attractors in the Sportsbook market.