{"id":8597,"date":"2025-06-01T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/2025-nba-championship-odds-thunder-favored-in-tilt-with-pacers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:58:02","slug":"2025-nba-championship-odds-thunder-favored-in-tilt-with-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/2025-nba-championship-odds-thunder-favored-in-tilt-with-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NBA championship odds: Thunder favored in tilt with Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" comments=\"[object Object]\" overlaytype=\"article\" storycard_image=\"[object Object]\" social_image=\"[object Object]\" show_advertisements=\"true\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\" data-v-44df51fc=\"\">  <!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">It&#8217;s time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> Finals.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">Here&#8217;s a look at the NBA title odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 1, now that the postseason has reached the championship stage.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\"><strong>2025 NBA Finals odds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>: -700 (bet $10 to win $11.43 total)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>: +500 (bet $10 to win $60 total)<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">So far, the OKC has shown why it was the best team in the NBA in the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">The Thunder swept Memphis in the first round, then grinded out a seven-game series victory over Denver, before blasting Minnesota in the Western Conference finals in five games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">In short, OKC can blow teams out or beat teams close.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">The Thunder will now return to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012, where Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden lost to the LeBron James and Dwyane Wade-led Miami Heat in five games.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">In the East, Indiana blew past Milwaukee in five games in Round 1, before doing the same to top-seeded Cleveland in Round 2.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">Then, in the Eastern Conference finals, the Pacers beat the Knicks 4-2 to set up a Finals tilt with OKC.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">The Pacers have never won an NBA title. The Oklahoma City franchise won when it was in Seattle in 1979, but has yet to win a title in OKC.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">The two teams faced off twice in the regular season. The Thunder won at Indiana 12-114, and won in Oklahoma City 132-111.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\"><i>Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/i><\/a><i>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!---->   <\/p>\n<hr class=\"story-section-divider\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\"\/>\n<div class=\"story-favorites-section-add\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\">\n<div class=\"logo-container\"> <img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 80 80'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/leagues\/logos\/NBA.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"National Basketball Association\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" class=\"lazyload team-logo\"\/><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"ff-gb fs-20 bold\">Get more from National Basketball Association<\/span> <span class=\"ff-h fs-14 opac-55 lh-1pt43 center\">Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more<\/span> <button data-favorite-uri=\"league:basketball\/nba\/league\/1\" data-action-location=\"article favorite\" data-favorite-text=\"FOLLOW\" data-remove-text=\"FOLLOWING\" aria-label=\"Follow Button\" class=\"button-favorite center flex pointer fs-14\"><span class=\"favorite-star\"\/> <span class=\"favorite-text\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<hr class=\"story-section-divider\" data-v-24ed9219=\"\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nba\/2024-25-nba-finals-odds-team-futures\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the NBA Finals. Here&#8217;s a look at the NBA title odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 1, now that the postseason has reached the championship stage. 2025 NBA Finals odds Oklahoma City Thunder: -700 (bet $10 to win $11.43 total)Indiana Pacers: +500 (bet $10 to win $60 total) So far, the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/2025-nba-championship-odds-thunder-favored-in-tilt-with-pacers\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}