{"id":583773,"date":"2026-04-03T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:00:08","slug":"lakers-nba-championship-odds-crater-on-luka-doncic-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583773\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers NBA Championship Odds Crater on Luka Doncic Injury Update\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7b\">The <a href=\"www.si.com\/betting\/lakers-nba-championship-odds-after-luka-doncic-injury-provide-glimmer-of-hope-01kn9n7x34xr\">glimmer of hope that betting odds provided <\/a>Los Angeles Lakers fans this morning in the wake of Luka Doncic\u2019s hamstring injury on Thursday night has been completely extinguished. In its place is only gloom and doom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">The season might be over. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\">The Lakers were +3000 at DraftKings to win the NBA Championship earlier this morning. After <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2040187516754518125\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shams Charania reported<\/a> Doncic is out indefinitely, however, their odds dropped all the way to +10000 on DraftKings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">The Lakers were fourth in the odds to win the Western Conference before the injury, but are now sixth at +6000 at FanDuel, behind the Thunder, Spurs, Nuggets, Timberwolves and Rockets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7n\">The Lakers already secured a top-six seed in the Western Conference playoffs and won\u2019t have to qualify via the play-in game. Their first playoff game won\u2019t be until April 18 at the earliest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7q\">That\u2019s the good news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7t\">The bad news is the Lakers are only one game up on the surging Nuggets for the three seed and are only three games up in the loss column for the sixth seed. We know Doncic is out for the regular season, but these odds suggest he could miss the first round too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7w\">The Lakers will face the Nuggets, Rockets or Timberwolves in the first round. Those teams are a combined 22-8 in their last 10 games, with the Nuggets riding a seven-game winning streak and the Rockets on four in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7z\">The T-Wolves and Rockets are the biggest winners on the oddsboard. The Timberwovles moved from +4500 to win the title to +3500 and the Rockets went from +7500 to +5500. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"82\">Doncic was +1500 to win NBA MVP before getting injured, third on the oddsboard. He has now been pulled from the odds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"85\">Here are the NBA Finals odds for every team via DraftKings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NBA Finals OddsOKC Thunder +125BOS Celtics +550SA Spurs +600DEN Nuggets +750CLE Cavaliers +1600NY Knicks +1700DET Pistons +2500MIN Timberwolves +3500HOU Rockets +5500PHI 76ers +8000LA Lakers +10000CHA Hornets +10000ATL Hawks +15000MIA Heat +18000ORL Magic +20000LA Clippers +30000TOR Raptors +30000GS Warriors +40000PHO Suns +50000POR Trail Blazers +300000<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8g\">Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8j\">If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The glimmer of hope that betting odds provided Los Angeles Lakers fans this morning in the wake of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}