here are the vegas odds on the nba championship 2005

Yeah, they renamed themselves because of all the talent they've pissed away.

 

I don't see why the Heat are so high. Sure they have Shaq but Dwayne Wade is no Kobe Bryant and the Miami fans are nuts if they feel thats all you need to win a title. Indiana and Detroit will walk all through the East again this season.

 

it does seem that way.


now if we could just fix that one flaw in you.

 

Before the season, the Astros were 6:1 to make the Worlds Series.

 

Odds from SportsBook...

San Antonio Spurs 3-1
Detroit Pistons 5-1
Minnesota T-Wolves 7-1
Indiana Pacers 8-1
Sacramento Kings 9-1
Miami Heat 10-1
Los Angeles Lakers 12-1
Houston Rockets 15-1
Dallas Mavericks 20-1
Denver Nuggets 20-1
New Jersey Nets 40-1
Memphis Grizzlies 45-1
Cleveland Cavaliers 45-1
New York Knicks 60-1
Philadelphia 76ers 60-1
Phoenix Suns 60-1
Portland Blazers 60-1
Toronto Raptors 60-1
Utah Jazz 60-1
Milwaukee Bucks 75-1
Golden State Warriors 100-1
Boston Celtics 100-1
Chicago Bulls 100-1
Los Angeles Clippers 100-1
Orlando Magic 100-1
Seattle Sonics 100-1
New Orleans Hornets 100-1
Washington Wizards 200-1
Atlanta Hawks 400-1
Charlotte BobCats 750-1

 

Now they are 18-1 to win the NL.

 

Man Utah have good odds, if the make the playoffs anything can happen.

 

anyone care to bet on the bobcats?

 

Those same "money guys" had the Florida Marlins at about 70:1 odds to win the World Series last year.

What I'm wondering is why they put the T-Wolves above the Pistons, who have basically the same roster and destroyed the Lakers who basically dismantled the T-Wolves with Karl Malone limping around on one leg.

 

Someone who knows about gambling tell me where I need to go to be 6:1 the Heat won't win the championship. Shaq is there to sell tickets, not to win it all, Vegas.

 

wasn't malone pretty much fine throughout the twolves series and then hurt in the finals? the pistons got the hobbled malone, not the wolves, IIRC.

and even then, a good argument could be made that if the wolves second best player, cassell, didn't essentially miss the whole series with an injury that the lakers wouldn't have even been the team in the finals. while it doesn't mean the wolves would win, i'd take the wolves with healthy cassell over the lakers with barely mobile malone to go against the pistons.

of course, if the lakers had played with the same intensity they played with after going down 0-2 to the spurs they could've beaten the pistons also, but i'm glad they decided not to.