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After Warriors And Celtics Split First 2 Games, Series Odds Are Close; Game 3 Wednesday
LeBron James Is
The Golden State Warriors are going to have to win a road game in the NBA Finals to take another champ- ionship.
The betting market thinks the Warriors will do that. But it's not by an overwhelming amount.
Stephen Curry led the way for Golden State with 29 points, six rebounds and four assists, while Jordan Poole added 17 points off of the bench.
As a team, the Warriors forced 18 Boston turnovers and they scored 33 points off of those turnovers. That was a big factor in the outcome. Game 3 is on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
The odds to win the NBA championship have a tight gap after two games of the se- ries. Golden State, which won Game 2 in a blowout, are the favorite at BetMGM. The Boston Celtics, who won Game 1 with a late flurry, are - 105 odds to win.
If you have a strong feeling about either of these teams taking the series, now might be the time to bet.
vored, and perhaps it's be- cause Boston isn't unbeatable at home. They dropped two home games to the Milwau- kee Bucks in the second round and two more to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals. They were 28-13 at home in the regular season, which is good but not intimidating. It's not like the Warriors feel they can't steal a game in Boston.
But, it's not like Boston will be scared of having to win a game in San Francisco, if it comes down to that. The Celtics have done that once al- ready.
Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors evened up the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics with a Game 2 win.
Series Goes Back To Boston
The Celtics were a fantas- tic team from Jan. 29 on, and that's why the pre-series odds seemed a little off. A few ana- lytical systems thought the Celtics had the best chance to win the NBA Finals before the playoffs started. That seemed prescient through Game 1, when the Celtics had the se- ries lead.
Boston had a horrendous stretch in the second half in which the offense wasted too many possessions, and the Celtics couldn't hit a shot on the rare occasion they got an open look. If you hit a dry spell against the Warriors, they can turn out the lights quickly. That's what hap- pened on Sunday night. Golden State outscored Boston 35-14 in the third quarter. Most starters from both sides sat in the fourth quarter.
Boston and Golden State are evenly matched. Golden State was good all season and has a championship pedigree. The Celtics were arguably the best team in the NBA from Jan. 29 on. The odds reflect how evenly matched the teams are.
The Celtics are favored by 3.5 points for Game 3. The se- ries is practically a coin flip after two games.
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Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors evened up the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.
Celtics And Warriors Trade Wins
Boston came into the se- ries as underdogs. The War- riors were favorite to win the NBA Finals. Then Game 1 happened.
The Celtics got hot from 3 late and pulled away from the Warriors for the win. Game 2 started the same way, but a disastrous third quarter for the Celtics turned the game into a blowout (it is really strange how many NBA play- off games this season have been uncompetitive).
The Warriors are still fa-
LeBron James has offi- cially become a billionaire, according to Forbes. This makes James the first active NBA player to reach the mile- stone, and the second NBA player to reach billionaire sta- tus, joining retired basketball star Michael Jordan.
James, a small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, is the NBA’s highest-paid player, earning $121 million dollars last year on and off- court. He landed the number two spot on Forbes’ 10 High- est-Paid Athletes of 2022 list, following Lionel Messi, who snagged the number one spot.
Overall, James has made $387 million from the Cleve- land Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and Los Angeles Lakers, and raked in another $900 mil- lion from other ventures and endorsements, such as a life- time Nike sponsorship, Blaze pizza franchises, and owning a video production company, bringing his pre-tax earnings to over $1.2 billion.
LEBRON JAMES
had a difficult childhood, as his young mother struggled to make ends meet. With the small amount of money he did have, James made sure to always put some aside, thanks to a money lesson from his uncles.
“My uncles always taught me — they taught me how to have a savings account,” James said in a podcast on his web platform, UNINTER- RUPTED. “They’d give me a dollar and they’d be like, ‘Lis- ten, nephew, go spend 35 cents of it and keep the other 65.’ Or, if they gave me two dollars, they’d be like, ‘Go ahead and spend a dollar of it, but stash the other dollar.’”
Officially A Billionaire—
This Is The First Money
Learned As A Kid
James, an Ohio native,
Jayson Tatum Joins
Elite Celtics Company During Postseason
Jayson Tatum is making his mark during the NBA playoffs. On Sunday, he joined an elite group of Boston Celtics playoff performers during the first half of Game 2.
Tatum became just the third Celtics player in history to score 500 points in a single postseason, in addition to having 100 rebounds and 100 assists.
He joins Hall of Famers Larry Bird — who did so three times — and Paul Pierce.
The 23-year-old also be- came the youngest player to accomplish the feat since Le- Bron James did so in 2007.
JAYSON TATUM
Entering Sunday’s game, Tatum had scored 498 points in 19 games, and had 125 re- bounds and 119 assists. He scored his 500th point less than two minutes into the first quarter. Tatum was averag- ing 26.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists going into Game 2.
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