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Betting
Game 1 of the NBA Finals will be played Thursday, with the Golden State Warriors a minus-210 betting favorite to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers and win their first championship since 1975. Here’s some of the bets offered at the Westgate Las Vegas sports book.
The Golden State Warriors are favored to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals and win their first championship since 1975. Six members of the Las Vegas Review-Journal sports staff and six handicappers predict the outcome.
Cleveland and Golden State form the perfect NBA Finals pair. The feud features two big-time stars and will play well on TV, blow up Twitter and energize Las Vegas sports books. The Warriors, as a minus-210 series favorite, seem to be the wiseguys’ side. The betting public is backing the Cavaliers.
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After eight weeks of thrilling postseason action, the Stanley Cup Final starts Wednesday night, with the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning facing off against the winners of the West, the favored Chicago Blackhawks.
Micah Roberts, a former race and sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1995, analyzes the field for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del.
LeBron James’ mission is to lift a pedestrian supporting cast of Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA championship by conquering a superior Golden State Warriors team led by two of the world’s best perimeter shooters. Golden State opened as a minus-270 favorite to win the series and has been bet down to minus-240.
Did the overconfidence of Spectacular Bid trainer Bud Delp and jockey Ronnie Franklin lead to his near miss at the Belmont in 1979 and the beginning of the current curse? It’s a good bet Bob Baffert and Victor Espinoza won’t make the same mistake with American Pharoah.
The NFL’s new rule that will make an extra-point attempt the equivalent of a 33-yard field goal try next season has thus far had no effect on the league’s point spreads in Las Vegas.
The 46th annual World Series of Poker begins today at the Rio Convention Center with the first two of 68 bracelet events. Last year’s WSOP drew a record 82,360 entries from more than 100 countries and awarded a record $227 million in prize money for 65 events. Tournament officials are expecting a larger turnout this summer.
One loss is not enough to put a scare into the Golden State Warriors. But the fear of losing Stephen Curry to a serious injury threatened to change a series in the blink of an eye.
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