NBA Odds: Betting on the Western Conference Championship

NBA Betting: How the West Will Be Won
A look into the crystal ball offers up some futures betting predictions for the Western and Eastern Conference champs

April 15, 2008

By Mike Halford
Bodog Nation Contributing Writer

Nobody can really predict the future.

Unless you're doing 88 clicks with McFly and Doc Brown, you've got no real chance to see what's in store down the road.

Thankfully, we can bet on the future. National Basketball Association futures, to be exact. It's one of the great rewards for us faithful sports enthusiasts who figure that – based on our hours of observations and beer swilling – we can accurately predict what's to come as well as anybody.

Such is the case with the NBA. With such a tight race for spots one through eight in the West, now strikes us as a remarkably good time to start looking at NBA basketball futures.
Jason KiddJason Kidd has been a steady playoff performer. (AP Images)

Now, let's not get naive and think that oddsmakers haven't paid attention thus far. This is, after all, a regular season where the West's eighth seed (at the time of writing, the 49-32 Denver Nuggets) will likely be a 50-win squad.

In fact, just seven games separate first from eighth in the West, a stark contrast to the East, where top seed Boston (64-16) is 27 games ahead of eighth place Atlanta (37-43).

As such, the futures bets in the West have been posted accordingly.

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