2024 NBA Finals odds: Spurs get Wembanyama enhance from draft lottery

The basketball gods have spoken.

Victor Wembanyama, maybe the very best NBA prospect since LeBron James – if not ever – is all however headed to San Antonio after the Spurs landed the first pick in subsequent month’s NBA Draft.

A possible all-time nice, the French sensation’s NBA arrival is predicted to vary the panorama of the league over the subsequent twenty years.

Simply have a look at the affect he’s had on the Spurs’ prospects for subsequent season, even earlier than he’s performed a recreation in San Antonio.

The Spurs, who completed final season tied for the second-worst file within the NBA (22-60), had their NBA title odds soar from 500/1 to 300/1 on DraftKings after Tuesday’s lottery balls went their manner.

The percentages drop strikes them previous the Houston Rockets (500/1), Detroit Pistons (500/1), and Charlotte Hornets (400/1), however they’re removed from the favorites.

The Boston Celtics (+500) and Denver Nuggets (+600) — this 12 months’s favorites to win the title — are the highest two favorites to win subsequent 12 months’s NBA Finals as effectively, adopted by the Milwaukee Bucks (+650), Phoenix Suns (+850) and Los Angeles Lakers (+900).

San Antonio remains to be a mega-long shot to take dwelling the 2024 title, to make certain.

However the transfer brings them a tick under a bunch of groups that competed for a play-in spot of their respective convention — the Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz, and Orlando Magic — at 150/1 on the bookmaker’s board.

Betting on the NBA?

At this level, you’re most likely throwing away your cash by backing San Antonio to win subsequent 12 months’s finals — irrespective of how dominant Wembanyama is out of the gate, this workforce simply doesn’t have sufficient expertise or expertise to make a playoff run.

The Spurs are positively a workforce to control relating to their win complete over/underneath and playoff odds, although.

They’ve upwards of $40 million in cap house to herald some operating mates for Wembanyama and Gregg Popovich, the most effective coaches in NBA historical past.