 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Salsman joined today by Davis Matic of dailyroadroom.com, who's here to give you six future bets of teams to win the NBA championship this season. What's happening, Davis? You know, we're on NBA also, Greg. So we're trying to do anything we can to find something to gamble on. I got bets out on tennis matches today, Greg. So we definitely, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Hey, man, we gotta do what we gotta do. We gotta earn a living here. So that makes sense to me. So let's put some money and lock it in in the NBA and let's start out in LA with Los Angeles Lakers, one of the favorites to win it all. And you like them at plus 300. I know it's not exactly a great number, but why do you like the Lakers here at that number? So I actually, I actually do think it's pretty much a great number. I think the Lakers are the best team in the NBA. I think that LeBron in a playoff series is generally gonna be the best player you can have. I think Anthony Davis is one of the five best players and I think that their coaching has set them up to be successful and I have no concerns about health, about chemistry, any of those things. And you know, I basically do not feel that way about any other team in the NBA. I think that the Lakers collectively are pretty clearly the best team. All right, the Lakers are Davis' best team in the NBA and you get them at plus 300 when you got LeBron, you have AD and Frank Vogel doing a nice job this season coaching, he likes them at plus 300, there's value there. The Lakers, you know, they're the favorite worth putting a few shekels on. That's not the only team that plays in Staple Center that you like here, Davis, because the Los Angeles Clippers are also at a good value. According to you. So the Clippers are the most talented team. I think the Lakers are the best team, but the Clippers have the best collection of talent. You know, they have Kawhi who went healthy is probably one of the three best players. They have Paul George, who's one of the 10 to 15 best players. They have Lou Williams, who's one of the best scoring guards. They have a center rotation with a defensive center and a scoring center, so they can switch that depending on the matchup, but they have health concerns. You know, Paul George basically has not been the same as to what he was in Oklahoma City and in Indiana after he had surgery on his torn labrums. We have Kawhi Leonard, who basically always has this knee injury and it really has changed the way he's played. Now he's still a great player, but it has changed the way he's played. I think that there are some coaching concerns there. And I think that there are some experience concerns with pretty much everyone other than Kawhi, but they are the most talented team. And if you look at the Western Conference odds, everyone else is so deep that I actually think there's a ton of value in just betting the Lakers and the Clippers. Two of the clear best teams in the West. A lot of people have already written it in stone. That's going to be the Lakers and the Clippers in the Western Conference finals. Get them both a plus 300. You don't really care who wins. You have a good shot in the NBA finals to lock in the Lakers and the Clippers. Let's move on away from Los Angeles here, Davis. And let's now go, well, to the Eastern Conference where the Philadelphia 76ers are plus 1,700 to win it all. They have the best home record in the NBA. They've only lost twice at Wells Fargo, but away from home, not nearly as good. No, they really are not nearly as good when they leave. But when we're going through this list, keep in mind, basically, I do not expect the Milwaukee Bucks to, you know, cakewalk to winning the Eastern Conference. And that's not the way it's priced on the Fan Dual Sports Book right now. They are actually plus 275 to win the NBA Championship. So the Bucks are the favorite. And I just think that, you know, it's very hard when your best player does not shoot three pointers. And the same is true for the 76ers. You know, their two best players don't really shoot three pointers, but you're getting a much better price. You know, they were a bounce shot away from being in the NBA finals last year. Imagine if they probably would have won if, you know, the Warriors would have sustained the same injuries. And now they're plus 1,700. And I actually think the team is probably a little bit better as currently constructed. So I really like this price. This is, to me, is the best price on the Fan Dual Sports Book. It won't be a cakewalk, four-mil walkie. So why don't you go with another team that has a legitimate shot to win the East and ultimately see what they can do in the finals. He likes the Philadelphia 76ers. It's a good number at plus 1,700. So lock it in now before the momentum starts to build in Philly. Heading back out West, the Clippers, they're not the number two team right now in the Western Conference. That would be the Denver Nuggets. And you can get them to win it all at plus 2,500. Nuggets learned a little bit last year and they pushed that knowledge into the NBA finals and beyond this year, Davis. It just feels like for my entire lifetime, the Denver Nuggets are gonna win 52 games, be the three seed and then losing the second round to the playoffs. It really just feels like that is their destiny as a team. But Nikola Jogic is an incredible player. I think their young guards have a lot of ceiling in a playoff series, kind of how we used to see those Spurs teams where they would, you know, you'd have Marco Bellanel, you'd have Patty Mills. You'd always have one of those guys who was capable of going, you know, four for four from three in the second quarter and just turning the game on its head. And I think the Nuggets kind of have some of that same potential. And, you know, they're a much better defensive team than you sort of expect that they are. And it's very hard for them to win a matchup against the Clippers or the Lakers. But, you know, the Clippers, they don't really have a great center rotation. And I think that they could potentially be the Clippers in a matchup, I think the Nuggets. So to me, that does make this price pretty intriguing. Nuggets are well-coached and they, I agree with you. Listen, they have been in the same spot for most of our entire lives, the Camarillo Anthony years and out here in the Nicolet-Yokic era. But if the Nuggets can do damage, man, as the number two seed is a tough place to play in Denver, I like the Nuggets here at plus $2,500. I think that's a good number. Let's head back out East where Miami Heat did a lot of damage at the NBA trade deadline and they got a lot tougher and toughness certainly can prevail in the playoffs. Yet, at 2,500, why do you think Miami has a shot? So I just think Miami's really good. They have really good players, right? They have Jimmy Butler, they have Bam out of bio, they have Kendrick Nunn, who's been one of the most surprising and impressive rookies. They have Tyler Hiero, who's been way better than anyone really thought he was gonna be in terms of being a shooter. And the fact that they have so many capable shooters, they have a center who in the playoffs, I mean, Bam could play 38 minutes a night in the playoffs, Jimmy could play 38, 40 minutes a night in the playoffs, and they're just a team that's not gonna beat themselves. Are they as talented as the Bucks or the 76ers? No, but they also are so much less likely to make mistakes. They are so much better coached than the 76ers are that they might even be favored over Philadelphia in a series. Heat are strong, they're dominant. They're a team that's gonna bully their way deep into the playoffs, and then you're right. Simply put, they're really good. So consider liking the Heat, because if it's not gonna be a cakewalk, four-mil walking, we'll see. The Heat has a good chance as anybody. So consider Miami when making your bets. One final team in the Eastern Conference that we have to mention here is the defending champs, the Toronto Raptors, who was just on the longest winning streak in the league this year, 15 games it went out to. That's of course without Kawhi Leonard. Why do you believe in Kyle Lowry and Nick Nurse to try to do it again? They're just good, man. The Toronto Raptors are a good basketball team. They have eight really good NBA rotation players, and they are one of the only Eastern Conference teams that can really say that, that every guy that they give minutes to is a competent NBA player. And I guess their issue is gonna be, do they have a star? And they really don't. Pascal kind of counts, but he doesn't shoot three-pointers, so they kind of have that same problem as Milwaukee, where if your best player doesn't shoot three-pointers, it's just really hard to win NBA games. But I kind of think that they might be like the third best Eastern Conference team, and they're not really priced that way. Totally. They're not priced that way. If people see what they are without Kawhi Leonard and they say, I love a superstar. They're not good enough. Pascal Siakum is that guy. They seem to get healthy. We know they're battle-tested, and having proven they could already win, they're going to be a tough out. I like the Raptors at this price as well. One final thing I want to ask you, Davis, before we wrap up, you said it's hard to bet on a team that doesn't have a true three-point threat. As their superstar. One team I noticed was not on your list was Houston Rockets, who has like seven three-point threats as their superstars. No love for the Rockets here? You're just not going to get me to publicly say that you should bet money on the Houston Rockets to win the NBA championship. I totally buy all of the organizational philosophies for the Rockets. I think that every team should more or less play the way that they do. I think people actually are bored of how great James Harden is. I think Russell Westbrook is playing the best basketball of his career, but it's very, very, very hard for me to see that team beating the Lakers or the Clippers. I actually think like the Nuggets are a worse matchup for those teams. And as a result of that, I just, and the price is fine. So if you wanted to bet it, whatever, but if you bet that, you definitely can't bet the Lakers or the Clippers. And that's why he's a lot smaller than I am. Davis Maddock, DailyRotor.com. We appreciate your time and we'll see you next time. Hey man, thanks for having me. And you know, just good luck making it through NBA All-Star break. And in order to get through the All-Star break, we got the WGC Mexico Championship, baby. We'll talk about it tomorrow with you and Jim Sones. Have a great night. We'll see you tomorrow.