NBA Championship Odds: Warriors unchallenged

One the biggest regular-season days of the year in the NBA is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which was Monday, and it’s also a good time to check on updated NBA championship odds as it’s essentially the halfway point of the regular season – although teams have played a bit past their 41-game halfway point.

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

No change at the top, nor will there be all season barring major injury, as the Golden State Warriors are -190 to win a fourth championship in five seasons. They just recently got that much better with the team debut of All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins off tearing his ACL last season with the New Orleans Pelicans. Now the Dubs can roll out a starting lineup of just All-Stars in guards Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, forwards Draymond Green and Kevin Durant, and Cousins. Not fair.

The only other teams under +1000 are the Toronto Raptors (+650) and Boston Celtics (+950). Not much love as of yet for the Milwaukee Bucks at +1200 considering they have the NBA’s best record. Then again, you generally need at least two stars to win a championship these days. The Bucks have arguably the NBA’s best player in Giannis Antetokounmpo, but no Robin to his Batman, so to speak. Milwaukee also leads the league in point differential by far. The Bucks have four winning streaks of at least four games this season, matching the number they had in 2016-17 and 2017-18 combined.