{"id":653992,"date":"2026-05-20T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:48:08","slug":"nba-playoffs-2026-1-knicks-bettor-wagered-775k-on-5-bets-and-won-all-of-them-after-new-yorks-incredible-eastern-finals-game-1-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653992\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs 2026: 1 Knicks bettor wagered $775K on 5 bets … and won all of them after New York’s incredible Eastern finals Game 1 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Knicks<\/a> weren\u2019t supposed to be down 22 points in the fourth quarter in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals at home in Madison Square Garden, especially coming off a week\u2019s rest \u2014 and considering the Cleveland Cavaliers had just won a Game 7 against the Detroit Pistons<\/a> less than 48 hours earlier.<\/p>\n

But with 7:48 remaining in the game, the Cavaliers \u2014 6.5-point underdogs entering the game \u2014 had a 93-71 lead. And one bettor was sweating through a series of five- and six-figure wagers on the Knicks.<\/p>\n

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A bettor at BetMGM had wagered $775,000 on a series of ladder bets on the Knicks to cover at various numbers before the game, ranging from Knicks -2.5 to Knicks -6.5. Here was the full range of wagers:<\/p>\n

$70,000 on Knicks -6.5 (-120)<\/p>\n

$95,000 on Knicks -5.5 (-140)<\/p>\n

$185,000 on Knicks -4.5 (-160)<\/p>\n

$350,000 on Knicks -3.5 (-185)<\/p>\n

$75,000 on Knicks -2.5 (-210)<\/p>\n

Realistically, the bettor\u2019s only chance to win any of these wagers was for the game to go to overtime \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly what happened, as the Knicks staged a furious rally from that 22-point deficit to force overtime. And New York never trailed in OT, en route to a stunning 115-104 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Knicks had moneyline odds of as high as 80-1 at one point in the fourth quarter at DraftKings.<\/p>\n

New York ended up covering every one of the five wagers for this bettor \u2014 who has been making ladder bets throughout the playoffs and is up on his reported wagers \u2014 and the Cavs +6.5 will go down in history as an all-time bad beat for spread bettors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks weren\u2019t supposed to be down 22 points in the fourth quarter in Game 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[282097,8174,4576,62393,15050,361,99],"class_list":["post-653992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bettor","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-eastern-conference-finals","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}