Game 1: Lakers at Kings/Warriors, 10 p.m. Is Las Vegas backing King James and the new-look Lakers to continue their run? Only time will tell. Los Angeles currently has the third-best odds to win the NBA Finals at +650. One would believe that either team that comes out of the Golden 1 Center will be the favorites in a series against the Lakers. The winner will advance to take on the Los Angeles Lakers, who beat the Memphis Grizzlies by 40 to knock off the two-seed in the West. It’s an all-California affair in the Western Conference Semifinals, regardless of who wins Game 7 in Sacramento between the Kings and Golden State Warriors. Time series analysis helped identify when the VR stimulus effected a change in acute stress response patterns. Despite receiving plus juice in the series (+100 to advance), the Nuggets are favorites in Game 1 at Ball Arena.īuckle up as this is set to be the best series of the entire second round. The Suns are -120 to get past two-time defending NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. Phoenix is favored by oddsmakers to win this series - just barely. The same remains true as the Suns have the second-best odds to win the title (+400) as of Saturday afternoon at Caesars.

Although Durant hasn’t played many games with the Suns since his arrival, Phoenix has remained one of the favorites to win the NBA Finals behind its star-studded starting five.

The Phoenix Suns have been one of the betting world’s most interesting case studies since they traded for Kevin Durant a few months ago.

Only time will tell series