{"id":502384,"date":"2026-02-25T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:27:10","slug":"spurs-climb-to-3rd-in-nba-title-odds-as-top-teams-maintain-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502384\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Climb to 3rd in NBA Title Odds as Top Teams Maintain Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Antonio Spurs are once again surging in odds to win the NBA Finals, this time after they beat the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons by double digits Monday night.<\/p>\n

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Key Takeaways<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 9-3 against teams in the top three in both conferences.<\/p>\n

San Antonio was given +6,600 odds the day before their season began.<\/p>\n

A Spurs championship would mark the largest Finals upset on record.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 41-16, good for the second-best record in the Western Conference and the third best in the NBA. The only teams ahead of them are the Oklahoma City Thunder (44-14) and Pistons (42-14).<\/p>\n

San Antonio passed the \u201c40-20\u201d test, which refers to more than 90% of champions winning 40 games before losing 20 during the regular season.<\/p>\n

The Spurs were +6,600 to win the Finals on Oct. 21, the day before they made their season debut, according to Sports Odds History<\/a>\u2019s archive of BetMGM\u2019s odds.<\/p>\n

BetMGM is now one of several sportsbooks to list the Spurs at +1,000 odds, meaning they\u2019ve gone from a 1.5% to a 9.1% implied chance to hoist the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy. OKC is at +135 (42.6% chance) and Denver is at +550 (15.4% chance).<\/p>\n

Prediction platform Kalshi views the race much differently. The Thunder are still at the top of the board, though users have only given them a 39% chance to win the Finals. The Spurs are second at 14%, ahead of the Nuggets at 12%.<\/p>\n

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Those probabilities translated to betting odds would look like this:<\/p>\n

Spurs, Wembanyama surging<\/p>\n

The Spurs\u2019 continued ascent in\u00a0NBA Finals winner odds<\/a> is well earned. They are 9-3 against the top three teams in each conference (Thunder, Pistons, Houston Rockets, Boston Celtics, and New York Knicks) and beat the defending champions in four of their five matchups.<\/p>\n

They also won the NBA Cup and are two wins (against the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets) away from going 11-0 in February.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s surge has given life to Victor Wembanyama\u2019s NBA MVP case. Kalshi\u2019s odds list the young Frenchman fourth behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokic, and Cade Cunniingham with a 9% chance to win.<\/p>\n

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While he is an obvious underdog, both Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic are in danger of losing their eligibility for the award due to the NBA\u2019s 65-game requirement for players. Cunningham isn\u2019t close to missing more than the allotted amount of games, but he\u2019s only at a 16% chance at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the top four candidates stack up against one another as they continue to battle in NBA MVP odds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander (56% chance): 31.8 points, 6.4 assists, 4.4 rebounds, 55.4% FG<\/p>\n

Jokic (23% chance): 28.8 points, 12.5 rebounds, 10.5 assists, 58.4% FG, 42.1% 3PT<\/p>\n

Cunningham (16% chance): 25.3 points, 9.8 assists, 5.8 rebounds, 1.5 steals<\/p>\n

Wembanyama (9% chance): 24.2 points, 11.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 2.8 blocks<\/p>\n

A potentially historic achievement<\/p>\n

A Spurs NBA championship would mark the largest Finals upset on record, according to Sports Odds History data.<\/p>\n

The longest preseason underdogs to win since 1984-85, when odds were first tracked, were the 2014-15 Golden State Warriors. Even they were only +2,800.<\/p>\n

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The closest team since then was the 2018-19 Raptors, who were +1,850.<\/p>\n

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