Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Vegas has Warriors as overwhelming Finals favorites over Cavs

The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will meet up the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive season, setting up a showdown where familiarity presumably will breed contempt with the Warriors having won two of the previous three titles.That said, while a Warriors-Cavaliers NBA Finals rematch was viewed as nearly a foregone conclusion — save for perhaps the Houston Rockets usurping Golden State in the Western Conference — the oddsmakers in Las Vegas don’t necessarily see the match-up as a competitive one.The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas opened Golden State as a -1,000 favorite to win the best-of-seven series, which tips off Thursday, via ESPN. The Warriors are the largest Finals favorites in at least 16 seasons, according to odds database Sportsoddshistory.com.The Warriors punched their ticket to another shot at an NBA title with a 101-92 victory over the Houston Rockets Monday night in Game 7 at Toyota Center, a showdown in which the home team when stunningly cold from the three-point line in a c

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