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00:00The Boston Celtics are minus money favorites in the Eastern Conference where basically they have been for a good part of this season
00:07I'm saying in a minus money perspective
00:10They have been the favorites to win the East in a very short fashion and when the NBA
00:15Championship all year long as the reigning NBA title winners, but the Celtics Donnie are not overly impressive
00:23at least based on our
00:24expectation which might sound difficult because they have the second best mark in the Eastern Conference at 38 and
00:3116 that's the second best or third best overall record in the NBA
00:35but the best team in the Eastern Conference right now is the Cleveland Cavaliers who are five and a half games in front of
00:44Boston for that one spot with a 42 and 10
00:48Record so Donnie knowing that distinction the Celtics a minus money favorite
00:52But not the one seed in the East in front of the Cleveland Cavaliers. How do you approach the Eastern Conference title odds?
01:00If for me look, I do think when it's all said and done
01:03Honestly, the Celtics are the best team in the Eastern Conference
01:05But that doesn't mean you're gonna have home court advantage all the way through you got to beat him in Boston
01:09Which for a couple rounds you will based on where they stand, but I just see like the Cavaliers are very good
01:15You see the record 43 and 10 five and a half game lead right now over the Boston Celtics
01:19But once again, look at the home court numbers Ben
01:2225 and 4 on their home court if you have home court advantage that means a lot here now
01:28You're trying to you know
01:29extrapolate as I said before
01:30The NBA is priced differently from the regular season to the postseason if you can get the Celtics of the postseason
01:36You know fully healthy, of course for the favorites and deservedly
01:39So but when we talk about price points here if I think I'm getting the top team in the conference
01:45Record wise that will be a home that if they do face the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals will have home court advantage
01:52And right now I'm getting a price point of plus 350 as opposed to minus 125
01:57I'm taking that all game all day long. But also you got to see like there's six and four in the last ten games
02:02They're not unstoppable not running away with everything
02:05But for them to blow a five-and-a-half game lead on the backstretch in the NBA already being a quality team outside of disastrous injured
02:12You know injuries. I don't buy that at this time. So for me just looking at the price points here
02:17I think it's wildly disrespectful for the Cavaliers
02:20They have a five and a half game lead but still a plus 350 price and we're not talking about the Celtics been at plus
02:26225 the Celtics are minus
02:29125 I can't get down with that
02:31Donnie it's been the same kind of conversation since early October who provides Boston the best test out in the Eastern Conference
02:39We had the same conversation
02:40Even last year on that historic run for the Celtics throughout the regular season and into the playoffs
02:46You would have to say it is the Cleveland Cavaliers
02:49But the Knicks also had the third best record out east at this moment
02:54And maybe the firepower with Carl Anthony towns to provide Boston its best test
02:5934 and 18 the number for New York to me
03:03It's still the Celtics in front of everybody else
03:06but if it ends up being one versus two
03:09Which seems likely because the Cavs have a five and a half game lead over Boston the Celtics three games clear of the New York
03:16Knicks if that is our Eastern Conference finals matchup
03:19Boston's not TD Garden this year
03:22They would be on the road in Cleveland for that best of seven set where I do
03:26Think those odds would be a little bit tighter or at least should be in premise Donnie
03:32Yes, you're right about that. And that's what you're we're trying to finalize it because as much as you could be fans of the NBA
03:38you still have to be handicappers and be
03:40Optimistic of what those price points would be and let's just say we go chalk all the way through and it's Cleveland in Boston
03:46It's not Cleveland to win that series at a plus 350 price at that point here
03:50And that's the point we're trying to point out where you're trying to say
03:53What's the best numbers I can get you want to take the Celtics if you think the Celtics are best right now at minus?
03:58125 that's crazy to take them right now. And again, they're not even in the one seat. Could they win it?
04:02Of course they can did they win it last year? Yes, they did
04:05But for me as I say to myself which price point if you just said Donnie you have two choices
04:10It's Celtics and Cavaliers not plus 100 apiece at these same numbers
04:14I take the Cavaliers six out of seven days at the plus 350 as opposed to laying but minus 125