2022-23 NBA championship betting odds: Suns in pack of contenders

The debut of the NBA In-Season Tournament starts on Friday as all 30 teams take the hardwood to begin play in the league's newest effort to add excitement to the regular season. The format includes six groups (of five teams) consisting of three from the Eastern Conference and three from the Western Conference. Each team plays four games within the…

The Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks are the early favorites to win the NBA title at sportsbooks across the country. Many sportsbooks have the Celtics and Bucks as equal favorites, however Caesars Sportsbook lists Boston as the slight favorite with odds of+380, followed by Milwaukee at+400. The Phoenix Suns (+600) and Golden State Warriors (+850)…

The 2023-24 NBA season is about to begin, and the Boston Celtics are the early favorite to win the NBA Finals. Oddsmakers at Caesars Sportsbook have the Celtics with the best NBA title odds at+380, with the Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets not far behind at+400 and+420, respectively. The Celtics were favored for much of last season but ended up…

By Nick Grunewald, WC Sports Editor MACOMB, Illinois (Western Courier) - As the 2023 NBA season is just hours away from tipping off, we're presented with a season that has as much drama leading into it as any year in recent memory. Can Denver repeat? Do Steph Curry and LeBron James have one last title run in them? Can anyone in the East take down…

Bettors are backing a Denver Nuggets repeat ahead of the 2023-24 NBA season. The Nuggets are the No. 3 favorite to win the NBA Finals at+550 at BetMGM behind the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics. And as both Eastern Conference juggernauts have undergone offseason makeovers, the Nuggets' rotation is largely the same. The defending champions'…

The Dallas Mavericks are expected to stretch-and-waive center JaVale McGee and re-sign forward Markieff Morris, according to sources. McGee, 35, signed a three-year, $17 million contract with Dallas last July. In seven starts and 42 appearances with the Mavericks in the 2022-23 season, the 7-foot center averaged 4.4 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 8.5…

Two Wednesday moves propelled the Boston Celtics to NBA Finals favorites ahead of the 2023 NBA Draft. The Celtics acquired Kristaps Porzingis from the Washington Wizards and sent out Marcus Smart (and others) in the three-team deal. Hours later, it was reported that the Milwaukee Bucks' Khris Middleton would be opting out of his $40 million player…

Can the Denver Nuggets go back-to-back? Just after winning the first NBA Finals title in franchise history, the Nuggets are the early favorites to win the 2024 NBA Finals. Denver is+500 at BetMGM to win consecutive titles after closing out the Miami Heat in five games on Tuesday night. It's easy to see why Denver is the favorite after getting the…

The 2023 NBA Playoffs have produced chaos and unexpected outcomes. All eyes Thursday are on the Golden State Warriors, who will be without Draymond Green and are hoping to avoid a 0-3 deficit to the surging Sacramento Kings. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia 76ers have appeared dominant and could end up sweeping the Brooklyn Nets if it continues to…

The first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs continues Tuesday night with the Boston Celtics taking on the Atlanta Hawks in Game 2 of their first round series and Jalen Brunson, Julius Randle and the New York Knicks facing Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. The night's festivities ends with Kevin…

Of the 16 teams competing in the NBA playoffs, the Suns rank third on FanDuel Sportsbook's list of favorites to win the championship. The betting website lists Phoenix at+480 odds, trailing only the Milwaukee Bucks (+240) and the Boston Celtics (+350). Phoenix will begin its postseason run at 5 p.m. Sunday when it hosts Game 1 of its best-of-seven,…

With the NBA regular season down to the last quarter of games, the postseason standing is pretty clear in focus. The top team in the Eastern Conference is the Boston Celtics but the Milwaukee Bucks are closing in on the No. 1 seed at a half game out. The Denver Nuggets have a 5.5 game lead in the West, but the Phoenix Suns are favored in this…

The Super Bowl is behind us and the NBA returns from All-Star Weekend in a couple of days. It's full steam ahead from now until the summer for basketball as fans begin to tune in before the start of the playoffs. We're 55 to 60 games into the NBA season already, so we've begun to separate the pretenders from the contenders. The trade deadline is…

Make no mistake about it: Thursday's NBA trade deadline was the most action-packed the league has ever seen. And because pretty much every team made some sort of deal to improve (or in Brooklyn's case, dismantle) its roster, there wasn't a ton of movement on most mobile sportsbooks' championship odds boards, save for Phoenix rising, the Nets…

The Suns have seen their odds to win the NBA championship dramatically improve after acquiring former league MVP Kevin Durant on Wednesday night in a blockbuster trade with the Nets. Phoenix dropped from 12-1 at the Westgate SuperBook to win it all to the 4-1 second choice behind the Boston Celtics, the 3-1 favorites to win the title. The Suns sent…

The Phoenix Suns shocked the basketball world by acquiring Kevin Durant in a blockbuster trade with the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night ahead of Thursday's NBA trade deadline. The move comes just three days after the Nets sent Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks in another blockbuster deal. And shortly after the Durant trade was reported, the NBA…

It's easy to look at the NBA championship odds board and be somewhat discouraged if you're a Philadelphia 76ers fan. With 25 percent of the season complete, Philadelphia is sitting in the exact same position as it was in mid-October. In fact, the Sixers' odds actually have lengthened a bit. The other way to view this reality? Philly has been…

The race is wide open for the NBA title at the start of the 2022-2023 season. Many teams are serious contenders for an NBA title and some dark horses are expected to rise during the season. Leading the pack of title contenders are the Golden State Warriors, whose key objective is to bring back all of the stars and supporting roster that helped them…

The NBA is nearly back, and with it comes the Dallas Mavericks, fresh off of a run to the Western Conference finals. The season debuts on Tuesday Oct. 18, but Mavs fans will have to wait until Wednesday before seeing Luka Doncic and co. visit Phoenix to face their nemesis from last years' playoff run: the Suns. Considering the trash talk exchanged…

The NBA's decision-makers respond to 50 different questions in the annual survey. In last season's NBA App GM Survey, the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks were not the favorite to repeat. Instead, the favorite was the Brooklyn Nets - the team that had just lost to the Bucks in Game 7 of the conference semifinals. This year, the Bucks lost in Game…

NBA preseason is the time of the year where every team in the league can be optimistic about their chances for the coming year. After all, everyone is 0-0, and no one knows how a season will play out with injuries, trades and other factors that can shape the league's landscape. The Dallas Mavericks, despite losing their second-best player in Jalen…

The Miami Heat have already had 2003 NBA draft class members LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the roster. Could another class member be on the way? Forward Carmelo Anthony remains a notable name on the free agent list. With training camp less than a week away, Anthony's name has been mentioned with the Heat. According to the website…

The Phoenix Suns' NBA title odds have shifted after trading for Bradley Beal. Tipico Sportsbook has released updated odds for the Suns' to win the 2023-24 NBA Championship and the Suns are now fourth at+670. Only the Denver Nuggets, the defending champions, and the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks are higher. The Nuggets are at+470 and the…

Who are the favorites to win the 2024 NBA championship now that the 2024 NBA tr ade deadline is in the books? BetMGM Sportsbook has released updated odds for each NBA team to win the title this season, with the Boston Celtics the favorite. It has Boston, which currently leads the NBA with a 39-12 record, at+275 in its NBA title futures odds. The…

A chaotic 2023 NBA trade deadline has seen movement in which teams are expected to win it all come June. Kevin Durant's blockbuster move to the Phoenix Suns has dramatically increased their odds, while the Brooklyn Nets have plummeted in the aftermath of Durant's departure and Kyrie Irving's to Dallas. However, the Suns are not the top favorite to…