All season long we’ve had to hear about the eventual collision course between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Finals. The conversation basically started when Anthony Davis was traded to Tinseltown back in July 2019.
You can keep your Bucks and your Lakers futures – I want little brother.
The Los Angeles Clippers.
Give me the deepest team in the league at a pretty fair price of 3-to-1 to win the championship. They are top five in both offensive and defensive efficiency for starters. So they’ve proved they can win both win and without the basketball. Their best player – Kawhi Leonard – just won another championship. Their head coach knows what it takes to win a championship. Six players scored in double figures during the regular season. And they can light you up from three while locking you up on D.
It’s really a fun club to watch.[[ad:athena]]
The Clips are so good they have an offensive lineup, defensive lineup and a three-point shooting lineup – none of which are their best lineup. Plus, they’ll have even more flexibility when menacing defender Patrick Beverley returns to the fold from his minor calf injury.
I’ll take my chances with the game’s best two-way player in Kawhi Leonard. He’s been aggressive out of the gate, already taking 21 shots in both of L.A.'s first two playoff games against the Mavericks. He’s all the way bought in. Paul George feeds off that energy. When that one-two combo is rockin’ and rollin’, opposing defenses have to overcompensate. That’s when those wide-open Clipper sharp shooters make you pay.
I’ll roll with Leonard, George and the multiple lineups the Clippers can throw on the floor at any time. At the end of the day though, this future bet is about having a superstar that’s a killer when it matters. Kawhi is a killer. He wants the ball with the game on the line and he wants to stop the other team’s alpha in that same situation. That’s the type of guy I want with no distractions, excuses or mercy inside this Orlando bubble.
Play on the Clippers +300 to win the NBA title.
