Betting lines adjusted after injuries to Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Stephen Curry

The aftershocks from injuries to Clippers standouts Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry reverberated at Las Vegas sports books on Tuesday, when the odds on Los Angeles to win the NBA title this season skyrocketed from 18-1 to 100-1.

Griffin will miss the rest of the playoffs after aggravating his left quadriceps tendon, and Paul has undergone hand surgery and is out indefinitely, leaving the Clippers without their top two players for the rest of their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Paul had surgery to repair a right hand fracture sustained in the third quarter of Monday’s 98-84 loss in Game 4 that allowed Portland to tie the best-of-7 series 2-2. Griffin sat out the final 5:48 and had an MRI on Tuesday that revealed no further structural damage to the quad that sidelined him for 45 games this season.

The Clippers were listed at 18-1 odds to win the NBA title at the Westgate sports book on Monday, when it was announced that Curry would be out at least two weeks with a sprained knee suffered in Sunday’s 121-94 win at Houston in Game 4. Those odds changed quickly Tuesday.

“We adjusted the Clippers to 60-1 (Tuesday) morning with just the Paul news and bumped them up to 100-1 after the Griffin news,” Westgate sports book manager Jeff Sherman said. “It’s just really crazy what we’ve seen the last 48 hours.”

With Curry out and Los Angeles completely healthy, Sherman said a Clippers-Warriors Western Conference semifinal series would have been close to a pick ’em, with Golden State maybe a minus-150 favorite. Without Paul and Griffin, Los Angeles would be a huge underdog.

“If the Clippers were to make it out of this round now, it would be an astronomical price because the Clippers won’t make it by that team even if Curry is not there,” Sherman said.

Odds are Los Angeles won’t even make it by the Blazers, who are 2-point road favorites in today’s Game 5 at Staples Center and minus-190 favorites at the adjusted series price.

The Clippers opened as 2-point favorites with Paul out, but the line quickly flipped with the news that Griffin was gone, too. Los Angeles was favored by 8½ points at home in each of the first two games of the series.

“We knew after (Monday) night that Griffin was 50-50, but with him not being on the court at all, the line moved a lot more aggressively at that point,” Sherman said. “The combination of both of them out is greater than adding one plus one and the number.”

Sherman adjusted the series price to Portland as a minus-120 favorite when Paul was out and bumped it to minus-190 when Griffin was ruled out.

The Warriors remain the favorite to repeat as NBA champions, though their odds have dropped since Sunday. They now are plus-125, with the San Antonio Spurs second at plus-200 and Cleveland Cavaliers third at plus-300.

“Before all the Curry stuff, they were minus-125 to win it,” Sherman said. “When it came out that he’d be out for two weeks, we bumped it up to plus-225 because we thought they’d have a tough fight with the Clippers without him. Now that Golden State will play a depleted Clippers team or the Blazers, we’ve adjusted it to plus-125.”

The Warriors are favored to close out their series against the Rockets by 9½ points in Wednesday’s Game 5 at Oracle Arena. They were favored by 13 points at home in Game 1 with a healthy Curry in the lineup.

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