Cleveland Cavaliers' Championship Odds Improve to +600

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00:00Take a look to at Cleveland on the season itself now down from a 40 to 1 price to start the season to win the NBA

00:05Championship Brian to a 6 to 1 price here, which just a few days ago was a 7 to 1 price

00:10So it is getting better if we are looking at the playoffs because another moniker would be well as long as Boston's engaged and healthy

00:16They probably have the leg up on the Cavaliers, but the Cavaliers have been sensational at home

00:20And if the season ended today, they would have home court advantage throughout here

00:24Talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers moving forward because for me Brian 75% of the season down

00:28This isn't a fluke season like I truly believe they are the best team in the NBA

00:32But a lot of people not pricing them as the best team in the NBA. What's your thoughts on that?

00:37they're the best offense, which I kind of expected with Kenny Atkinson like

00:42Seeing what Kenny Atkinson was able to do with the Nets up here close

00:45and those are teams that I covered like actually on a day-to-day basis for a few years and

00:50You saw him

00:52make chicken salad out of you know, what with guy after guy after guy like

00:58Develop Spencer Dinwiddie into becoming a near all-star player develop the Angelo Russell into becoming an actual all-star player

01:05Developing Karis Laverte into becoming an all-star talent before he broke his leg very early in that 2018-19 season

01:12He was likely gonna be the Nets all-star that year the way it was trending before he got hurt 12 games into the year

01:17Jared Allen seeing the early portions of his development and seeing where Jared Allen is now

01:22To the point where like he's a guy who could even sit some crunch time lineups

01:27In the playoffs like he could sit some fourth quarters because of you know

01:30Matchup things like we've already seen this against the Celtics where they've sort of had to choose and are like, alright

01:36I don't know if we could survive two bigs right now

01:38Let's go to this different look because they have a bunch of closing options and the thing with the Cavs thing the Cavs team for

01:44Me is they could also defend at a high level of seventh and defensive first and offense and they have a lot of options

01:49Like ultimately I think you need depth to win a championship. It's not just star driven. You need seven eight players

01:55You can trust you need six seven players

01:58You can close with those kind of things and you have Darius Garland Donovan Mitchell Evan Mobley Jared Allen DeAndre Hunter max truce

02:06Dean Wade potentially like Ty Jerome you have a bunch of different guys

02:10You can close with on a great night and just looking at the coaching differences between you know

02:16Kenny Atkinson and with all due respect to you bigger staff like this is just the decision they had to make they had a good

02:21Before but now they have a great one

02:23This is kind of like some people likened it to Golden State going from Mark Jackson to Steve Kerr

02:28I feel like maybe this maybe this isn't as dramatic because then we saw what the Warriors did after but at the same time

02:36I think Kenny Atkinson was the right man for the job

02:38But the Andre Hunter trade was great

02:39and I think they're legit like they can give obviously Boston a lot of problems and I think

02:43They're I would favor them to be everyone in a playoff series in the Eastern Conference

02:49Outside of Boston just because of Boston's pedigree, but assuming they get home court, which it looks like they will

02:54I may like the Cavs in that series, too