OKC Leads NBA with Best Record, Sits Atop West Odds

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00:00Donnie back to the Western Conference odds where last year when we were breaking down the NBA campaign

00:05We started to see a change from where the offseason odds were those

00:09Expected to contend for a conference crown in the teams that actually had the best records out west all of last year

00:17and where the odds board was still a little bit hesitant to move teams like the Nuggets and the Warriors and the Suns off those

00:23front-running spots in place teams like the Thunder in the T Wolves in the Grizzlies and

00:30The Mavericks up there now, there is no doubt

00:34Oklahoma City has the best record in the NBA

00:3742 and 9 just pasted the Pelicans last night by 36 at home

00:41Shea Gilgis Alexander continues to average better than 30 points per game

00:46Chet Holmgren is back now for OKC as well

00:50They have an eight-game advantage Donnie an eight-game lead

00:53Do the Thunder for the one spot in the Western Conference in front of the Memphis?

00:59Grizzlies and yet we see the Nuggets who probably have the most pedigree of Western Conference teams in the last few years

01:06At least in the last two three years of winning a conference championship and winning an NBA championship

01:13Still with Nikola Jokic the Nuggets have won seven consecutive games the Lakers added Luka Donchik

01:19They've won six games in a row sitting in that five spot

01:22The Grizzlies are about to be the two seed out west for the third time in the last four years

01:28You have the Clippers the Rockets on the come up the T Wolves the Mavs

01:33The Warriors making some noise with Jimmy Butler Donnie. How do you look at those Western Conference championship odds right now?

01:41Like why would you take it right plus even if we're telling you right now?

01:44Okay, see is the best team in the west does that always mean they advance to the championship rounds here for the nba finals

01:49No, it doesn't it's hard to bet against it. But also price point plus 100 sga gets injured which we don't expect injuries

01:57But they do happen. It's one thing to be left with

01:59Hey, I took a shot on a 35 to one that the best player got injured

02:02I just didn't work out but a plus 100 one injury can massively affect those numbers here that you have even though

02:09We're not anticipating them

02:10But take a look behind them

02:11Do you think the Grizzlies can knock off the thunder?

02:13The Nuggets who do have the playoff pedigree one of those teams that you might look is also they have the advantage of playing at elevation

02:18But when it comes down to it and we talked about the eastern conference where the Cavaliers have a great home record

02:24Look at okc. They are

02:2624 and 3 at home this year. They're going to be home throughout the nba playoffs here in the western conference

02:32So they lost three times

02:33You're gonna have to beat them basically three times in their own building in one series probably to advance to the next round over them

02:39That's what's so tough to overcome. But there is value the farther you go down

02:43You think the lakers can overcome a lot of challenges?

02:45I don't know if they can but they do have the top end pedigree if they get hot to do some damage

02:50Even go further down like making changes for the golden state warriors if they can get hot

02:54They're in the 10th seed right now, but the memphis grizzlies the rockets the clippers, you know

02:59I love and have an affinity for because my guy norm pal plays for them

03:02But it just feels like oklahoma city by far is the best team in the western conference

03:07Which again to the original point was that usually wasn't the case it used like my goodness

03:11Just getting to the nba finals was an achievement to get through those great teams

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