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NBA Finals: Warriors Big Favorites to Beat Cleveland

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This is the moment the Golden State Warriors have been waiting for. After blowing that 3-1 lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers in last year’s NBA Finals, the Warriors are back, and they’re better than ever; Golden State has opened as a 7-point home favorite for Thursday’s opener (9 PM ET, ABC), and the Dubs are –240 on the NBA championship futures market.

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Last year’s Warriors may have won 73 games, but they didn’t win the only game that counts: the last one. So they added Kevin Durant in free agency, giving them yet another league MVP to join Stephen Curry in the starting lineup. Durant is +220 and Curry is +230 to be named Finals MVP at the end of this series.

LeBron James is also +220 to win MVP, which would be his fourth award. Even though the Cavs are +200 underdogs to defend their title, James is easily the best player on his team – Kyrie Irving is his closest MVP competition at +1000. James has played at an exceptionally high level in these playoffs, too, putting up 32-8-7 per game while hitting 42.1% of his 3-pointers.

Team Records

Cleveland Cavaliers
Name Record Home Away ATS ATS Home ATS Away Offense Defense Diff
Overall 63-32 36-11 27-21 43-48-4 21-24-2 22-24-2 111.22 106.61 4.61
Last 10 9-1 3-1 6-0 6-2-2 2-2 4-0-2 117.30 100.80 16.50
vs Div 12-8 8-2 4-6 7-12-1 4-6 3-6-1 108.40 106.70 1.70
vs EAST 47-18 24-8 23-10 32-29-4 13-17-2 19-12-2 112.69 106.25 6.44
vs WEST 16-14 12-3 4-11 11-19 8-7 3-12 108.03 107.40 0.63
Golden State Warriors
Name Record Home Away ATS ATS Home ATS Away Offense Defense Diff
Overall 79-15 42-5 37-10 48-42-4 23-21-3 25-21-1 116.20 103.97 12.23
Last 10 10-0 4-0 6-0 7-3 1-3 6-0 118.90 103.40 15.50
vs Div 14-2 8-0 6-2 9-7 5-3 4-4 120.13 104.50 15.63
vs EAST 25-5 14-1 11-4 14-14-2 8-6-1 6-8-1 115.30 102.40 12.90
vs WEST 54-10 28-4 26-6 34-28-2 15-15-2 19-13 116.63 104.70 11.93

Supergrid

Title Stat Rank Stat Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense 111.22 4 103.97 11
Away Team Away Scoring vs Home Team Home Defense 109.52 4 102.49 10
Away Team Road Rebounds vs Home Team Home Rebounds Allowed 42.48 18 42.62 14
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense 116.20 1 106.61 18
Home Team Home Scoring vs Away Team Road Defense 118.57 1 108.42 18
Home Team Home Rebounds vs Away Team Road Rebounds Allowed 45.74 6 44.81 21

Head To Head Summary

Team record ATS O/U AVG AVG ½ FG% REB 3PT steals
Cleveland 5-5 5-5 3-6-1 100.10 55.30 45.49 41.60 137/355 7.10
Golden State 5-5 5-5 3-6-1 106.50 50.00 43.97 42.20 84/258 8.90

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Dirty

Dirty has been an employee or owner of some of the top online sports gambling forums since 1998. He worked at EOG.com from it's inception until 2008 when he left and opened GamblingIQ and then in 2012 opened Handicappers Hidaway. He has written hundreds af articles over the years and always has his "Dirty Dozen" College Football poll up starting the first week of October.
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