NBA Basketball Betting Odds: Who Wins NBA Finals MVP?
Sunday, April 17, 2011
by Bodog Sportsbook
The NBA playoffs Betting are just a day old, but already Bodog offers its players the prop option to bet on who the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player will be.
Really this is in a way a simple bet: Just identify who you think the NBA champion will be and take the best player and future Hall of Famer off that club. That’s pretty much how it always works. Only one player from a team that lost in the NBA Finals has won the MVP: The Lakers’ Jerry West in 1969. And only one rookie has won the award: the Lakers’ Magic Johnson is the youngest player and only rookie to be named the Finals MVP at the age of 20 in the 1980 NBA Finals. But there is no rookie this year on a playoff team who is a significant contributor, so throw that out.
While Kobe Bryant can tie Michael Jordan with his sixth NBA championship ring if the Lakers win the title this year to threepeat for the second time – just like Jordan’s Bulls did under Phil Jackson – Kobe would only be halfway to MJ’s record of six NBA Finals MVP awards if Bryant wins it for the third year in a row this season. And Kobe opened as the 7/2 favorite – no shock considering the Los Angeles Lakers are 11/4 favorites to win it all again.
Bulls point guard Derrick Rose, the likely regular-season MVP, is next up at 5/1. It would be a bit unusual for Rose to win Finals MVP in this regard: Only five players under 6-foot-4 have captured that honor in NBA history: Tony Parker (2007), Chauncey Billups (’04), Isiah Thomas (’90), Joe Dumars (’89) and West (’69). Rose’s Bulls are only the third-favorites at 7/2 to win the title. LeBron James’ Heat are the second-favorites at 13/4 and James is the third-favorite on this prop at 11/2.
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