Posted on 05/24/2022 1:37:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nevada bettor places $60k total on Mavericks to win West, NBA Finals; here's potential payout.
No team in NBA history has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit, but that didn't stop one Nevada bettor from pushing his chips in on the Dallas Mavericks.
With the Mavs facing elimination Tuesday night in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, a bettor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas just did the unthinkable: he placed a bet on the Mavericks to win their series against the Golden State Warriors.
In a tweet sent out by Caesars Sportsbook, official odds partner of Bet.NOLA.com, the bettor placed $50,000 on +3000 odds for the Mavericks to dig themselves out of the hole, win the series, and advance to the NBA Finals.
The bettor not only wagered on the Mavs to win the series, but also bet on Luka Doncic and company to win the NBA Finals at +7500 odds, placing an additional $10,000 on that wager at Caesars.
“This is easily one of the ballsiest wagers I’ve ever seen,” said Craig Mucklow, vice president of trading at Caesars Sportsbook, in a prepared statement.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. “There have been 3-0 comebacks in other sports, but not the NBA. If the Mavericks pull this off, this bettor will also be a part of history with one of the largest payouts ever for an NBA wager.”
A Mavericks comeback to beat the Warriors would net the bettor $1.5 million, and he'd win a total of $2.25 million if they go on to win the NBA title.
The Mavericks (-120 on the money line) are slim 1½-point favorites Tuesday in Game 4 against the Warriors. Here's a full look at the betting line, provided by CaesarsSportsbook:
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A fool and his money...
Considering how the current illegal occupant of our White House is tanking our stock market, this might be a better bet.
So? I’ve known chronic gamblers. They are insane. Truly.
Good luck to him and I hope it happens. But win four straight against the Warriors? After losing the first three..... Maybe if Steph Curry and Klay Thompson both get hurt....
He did sell his Gulfstream a couple of years ago .... so maybe he had to do some belt-tightening....
Rich Strike is playing center.
Actually, in this postseason, sometimes the rest of the team are carrying them.
It’s gonna take a plane crash or a severe infectious illness.
Wasted money
When Norm Macdonald died, another comedian told a story that Norm won $5,000 on a bet, took his winnings and threw it in the ocean because he was going to end up losing it anyway.
I thought the Mavericks were a music group headed by Raul Malo.
at 3000:1 I might put 10 bucks on something...
but 50K???
wow
Breaking News: Steph Curry and Klay Thompson suffer career ending injuries
(Just kidding)
People have prepared statements with ballsiest in it? Learn something new about PR every day.
Sounds more like money laundering to me.
And lose the 50 grand he did.
On 2 May 2016, Leicester City became champions of the Premier League after Tottenham Hotspur drew 2–2 with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. At the start of the season, bookmakers were offering odds of 5000 to 1. There were only a couple of bets of 10 pounds. Big news in the U.K.
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