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00:00 As we look at the NBA postseason as of this moment, the Boston Celtics a large favorite
00:06 tonight to clinch their second round series and get back to the Eastern Conference Finals
00:11 for the third consecutive year with one more victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Boston
00:17 is loving what they see in that other set. The Celtics remain an odds-on favorite to win the
00:22 NBA championship, but their number a little bit worse, -140, has now become -135. Why? Because
00:30 of what Denver is doing in their second round series against Minnesota. Three straight wins
00:36 in the shortest price we have seen on the nuggets in about a week and a half, plus $265,
00:41 to win the NBA championship. Yeah, we talked about that price for the Celtics yesterday bottoming out
00:46 a little bit because it can't get any better than that. It's not as if, "Okay, let's just win one
00:50 more game, it goes to -140, win another game, it goes to -145, -150, -160," because that's not the
00:54 way it's going to play out in the finals if you get a strong contender, which basically any of
00:59 those teams that come out of the West are going to be strong contenders. And now you're seeing the
01:02 Denver Nuggets playing much better basketball now with three straight victories back on that
01:07 perch as, "Oh yeah, we remember they were champions last year and may be destined to go back to back."
01:12 They would give the Celtics a hell of a fight if they took them on in the NBA finals. So it does
01:16 make some sense. The Celtics will always be the favorite because, number one, they'll have home
01:20 court advantage and just getting to the finals is still going to be a lot easier for them than it
01:24 is for the Denver Nuggets as we're just anointing them winners of the West, which we know that's not
01:28 the case. They're going to get strong contention in the Western Conference finals anyway. So those
01:32 numbers will work itself out, but I don't think the Celtics will get too much higher than what we saw
01:35 that -140-ish price earlier.