{"id":9499,"date":"2010-10-22T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2010-10-22T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:52:10","slug":"nba-mvp-betting-a-look-at-the-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-mvp-betting-a-look-at-the-favorites-9499\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA MVP Betting: A Look at the Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin
Durant is the favorite to win the NBA MVP award according to the oddsmakers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Here’s a look at the MVP odds for the favorites along with a pick or two. Odds are taken from Bodog. <\/p>\n

Kevin Durant – Odds: 5\/2 – This is actually my odds on favorite to win the award.\u00a0 He will likely lead the league in scoring again, and Oklahoma City has become the feel good story of the NBA.\u00a0 While last season\u2019s playoff performance shouldn\u2019t technically have any weight on this coming year\u2019s award, we know that it does.\u00a0 Taking the Lakers to within a few seconds of a game 7 spoke volumes about how valuable Durant is, not to just the Thunder, but to the NBA, and that is ultimately what this award is about.\u00a0 It appears the oddsmakers at Bodog know this, because his 5\/2 odds won\u2019t offer a huge payout.\u00a0 Since Durant is my favorite to win the award, I obviously advocate a large bet here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant – Odds:\u00a0 3\/1 – This isn\u2019t a bet I would consider making.\u00a0 While Kobe may be deserving of another MVP award (his only came in 2008), he isn\u2019t getting any better, and just because the Lakers continue to win championships, doesn\u2019t mean he is the odds on favorite.\u00a0 While I do think he has a great shot at winning this award, the voting takes place long before the NBA finals (where notching another championship against the Heat would push Bryant over the edge).\u00a0<\/p>\n

LeBron James – Odds: 9\/2 – Lebron has a greater chance, according to Bodog Oddsmakers, of winning the award than Dwyane Wade.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the way I see it:\u00a0 If the Heat become the premier team over the next few seasons, Wade will win it first, and then Lebron will be given another crack at an MVP award.\u00a0 There\u2019s more to take into account than player performance, unfortunately, and I think an order of Wade first, then Lebron, seems more logical in light of the way the media thinks.\u00a0 I know, I know, I can\u2019t exactly predict what hundreds of media members will think, but it seems to make sense.\u00a0 I would not bet on Lebron James, despite his seemingly good chances at winning it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dwight Howard – Odds: 13\/2 – Well, Dwight has already won back to back Defensive Player of the Year awards; could this year be his first MVP season?\u00a0 Orlando has been a steady contender the last two seasons, both of which were 59 win seasons.\u00a0 If Dwight can get his scoring back up over 20 ppg, maybe up to 23, in addition to maintaining the rest of his statistics, and if Orlando can win 60 or more, he would have a great chance at winning this award.\u00a0 While the 13\/2 odds aren\u2019t offering a huge payout, they aren\u2019t bad either.\u00a0 They are actually just about right on.\u00a0 This is a good bet, and given the circumstances with Bron and Wade both playing on the same team, it would seem the biggest competition is from Durant.<\/p>\n

So in looking at the 4 favorites to win the NBA award Durant is obviously worth a wager and Dwight Howard is also worth a little something and may offer a little more value from a betting stand point.\u00a0 You can bet\u00a0and view all the NBA MVP odds\u00a0at Bodog.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a look at the MVP odds for the favorites along with a pick or two. Odds are taken from Bodog. Kevin Durant – Odds: 5\/2 – This is actually my odds on favorite to win the award.\u00a0 He will likely lead the league in scoring again, and Oklahoma City has become the feel good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[833,1193,67,66,3568,3551,2189],"class_list":["post-9499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dwight-howard","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-lebron-james","tag-mvp-odds","tag-nba-mvp-betting","tag-nba-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}