Thunder -750 favorites in NBA Finals over Pacers

The Oklahoma City Thunder are 1 of the biggest betting favorites successful an NBA Finals successful the past 20 seasons.

The Thunder opened arsenic -750 favorites implicit the Indiana Pacers successful the Finals astatine ESPN BET. The Pacers opened arsenic +525 underdogs connected Saturday.

Since 2005, lone the 2018 Golden State Warriors (-1075 vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers) had shorter likelihood heading into the Finals than this year's Thunder. Game 1 is Thursday successful Oklahoma City. The Thunder opened arsenic 9-point favorites successful Game 1.

Oklahoma City took attraction of the Minnesota Timberwolves successful 5 games to instrumentality to the Finals for the archetypal clip since 2013. The Thunder volition look a Pacers squad that began the play astatine 50-1 to triumph the title, but went connected a tally successful the playoffs and finished disconnected the New York Knicks connected Saturday successful the Eastern Conference finals.

The Pacers, astatine 50-1, would beryllium the biggest preseason agelong shots to triumph the title successful the past 40 years History is against them, though.

In the past 50 years, lone 2 teams who were astatine slightest +200 underdogs to commencement the Finals went onto triumph their bid (2004 Detroit Pistons +500; 2019 Toronto Raptors +230), according to betting archive SportsOddsHistory.com.