{"id":15915,"date":"2019-06-09T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2019-06-09T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:43:50","slug":"warriors-historic-series-underdogs-in-updated-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/warriors-historic-series-underdogs-in-updated-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Historic Series Underdogs in Updated Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are massive changes coming to the NBA landscape this offseason, and a changing of the perennial\u00a0odds-on favorite is one of the first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/record.commission.bz\/_ejy4onLiLhHT2Fu8bIPGIGNd7ZgqdRLk\/1\/\">SportsBetting<\/a> has updated its odds to win the NBA Finals, and Golden State is neither the favorite or co-favorite for the first time in years. The current odds list Toronto at -660 while the Warriors are\u00a0+510. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15916 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/curry.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be precise, it&#8217;s been three years and 15 days (or 1,110 days) since the Warriors were anything but the favorites. Their odds did jump to\u00a0+125 (Toronto -105) a couple of times leading up to Game 4, but the series odds following Game 3 opened at -110 each way.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Warriors are more than 5\/1 underdogs, it marks the first time since May 25, 2016 that they&#8217;ve been in this position. That date was the day after they fell down 3-1 to the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2016 Western Conference Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the No. 1 song on the Billboard Top 100 that week was \u201cOne Dance\u201d by Raptors superfan, Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State is a 5-point underdog for Game 5 while the over\/under is 211.5.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this unfamiliar position, oddsmakers are expected to open the Warriors around 2\/1 favorites for the 2019-20 NBA Championship odds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a> remains the place to go for winning bets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warriors are now more than 5-1 to win the NBA title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15917,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}