Who will win NBA Finals MVP? 🏆 NBA Today make their picks!

Who will win NBA Finals MVP? 🏆 NBA Today make their picks!

look who’s stopping by it’s Tyler fulim the host of ESPN BET live Tyler we need your help we need your expertise here what is your best bet ahead of the NBA Finals well I’ve been dancing with Luca donic Malika this entire postseason so I will not stop that’s right the Texas twostep with Luca and so far we are in Rhythm we are in sync so my favorite bet is Mavericks plus a game and a half that’s- 125 so that means you have to bet a125 to win a dollar back but I think the Mavericks win this series however as long as it goes to a seventh game then we win this bet I think they’ll win it in six but if we get to a seventh game we win this bet with Dallas plus a game and a half in the series and there’s a another fun little long shot wager I like I don’t know what christs porzingis is availability is going to be I know we just heard from him there but Jason Tatum to have 10 or more rebounds in every game that’s played in this series is 14 to1 now that’s when where you sprinkle a little on it 5 10 bucks and you can maybe get a lot back at a 14 to1 price for return on investment but my favorite way to bet this is certainly on the Mavericks I think they’re The Winning Side of this NBA Finals series guys we are a fan of sprinkles here on NBA today since you mentioned Jason Tatum though how about finals MVP he’s the favorite right now but is there a name that you like that you’re looking at well yeah I mean Tatum is the deserved final or finals favorite I should say because his team is favored but like I said I like the Mavericks and if the Mavericks are going to win this we know there is one person and one person only who is driving the entire engine of that Mavericks offense and that is LCA donic I guess if Kyrie has like multiple 40-point games he could steal the MVP but what are the chances the Mavericks win this series and it’s not because Luca is averaging close to if not a triple double 30 10 and 10 he is going to be the reason why so at 2 to one my favorite way to bet this series is donic to be the finals MVP because if you just bet the Mavericks that’s plus 180 if you bet dones to be Finals MVP that’s two to one and again I think there’s a 99% chance that if the Mavs win donic is the finals MVP so if you’re doing the Texas twep we need to ask our our re a resident Texan over here Chen if it’s not LCA donic if it’s not Jason Tatum is there anyone else you’re looking at for finals MVP the guy who just won Eastern Conference Finals MVP and is showing his best self Jaylen Brown I think it’s a real possibility because the Celtics were designed not necessarily for Jason Tatum to have to always be that guy and they still got exactly where they needed to go because that man right there he was a terror for the Pacers and a lot of the plays you’ll see okay the points per game that was cool but it was the nature of the shots that shot that made me lose sleep and all of Indiana lose sleep as well but more so it was the defense that he applied so it’s the two-way nature of Jaylen Brown that has been a huge impact but I think the Celtics overall it’s almost like we just want to win a championship we don’t care who gets the credit right all eyes will be on Jason Tatum but if they win that will quiet a lot of the noise I like Kai for this one I hope to see Kai do it but I think Luka I have Dallas I think Dallas will win it’s going to be Luka cuz he sets the table and mixes all the plays but the guy that’s left off the top 75 off the USA team um who was traded from Boston I would love to see him average 40 and get the finals yeah that would be quite quite the full circle story if that were were able to happen can I tell you a number though that that caught our attention right now a Celtic sweep it has the same odds as the Mavs and seven both of those have the same odds Tyler what does that tell you yeah I think this is just it’s not something I would bet the Celtics to sweep at plus s 750 if I’m going to take a plus 750 wager what is more likely to happen the Celtics to win four games in a row or this to go deep seven games and the Mavs win that seventh game in a tight one so if I had to make one of these Wagers I am I would take every dollar that I would wager in this regard and put it on that seven game Dallas winning 4-3 rather than a Celtics sweep the Celtics ran through the East and they played Miami without Jimmy Butler Cleveland without Jared Allen and Donovan Mitchell Miss time then the Pacers without Tyrese Halbert in the final two games they’re finally going to face a full forced healthy team and the best player in the planet is coming on the other side so as far as these two prices if you’re going to bet one of these at plus 750 for me one of them is wrong that’s Boston 40 one of them is right that’s Dallas 43 can you imagine we’re going we could go to a seven game series between these two we need it I wouldn’t I there’s something that tells you this is going to be a long one I would at all Tim bonm he’s been covering Boston all postseason long for us we’ve been waiting for an answer about christs porzingis here Tim what did we learn today well we learned I think Malika that Chris porzingis is a little unsure about how that right CF is going to feel when he gets out on the court for game one on Thursday night porzingis has typically been somebody Malika who’s pretty honest when he talks to the media last year when he got introduced here at the practice facility in Boston and was asked are you going to be ready to be a big contributor in the playoffs he admitted I don’t know cuz I haven’t had a lot of playoff experience and today you saw both in that answer and earlier when he was asked are you 100% right now and he had a similar pause and said I don’t know it’s a good question it’s unclear given how long he’s missed this is 5 weeks as of today since he suffered that calf strain in game four the first round against the Miami Heat that porzingis just isn’t going to be sure exactly how he feels until he gets back out on the court in a game setting on Thursday night in game one and sees how he does actually feel and that moment however porzingis said the plan is to play in game one and when I asked him is this a matter of getting out there and testing it before you’ll know 100% if you’re ready to go he said he was very confident that the Celtics would not the Celtics team doctors would not put him in a position to be out there where he wasn’t ready to go and he said he’s confident in all the work that he’s put in but at this point until we see him out there in game one there’s going to be some shadow of a doubt in his mind clearly about how just ready he is to go out there and play and we do know that if he is less than 100% if he is laboring at all this is a Dallas Mavericks team that is going to attack him and attack that so what does this give the Celtics now that they have Chris STS back in this series well his presence is going to be massive for the Celtics Malik on a couple of levels the first is when Boston traded for him a year ago it was to give them an option Beyond just going to isolation basketball in late game playoff situations something that is this team has struggled in over the past couple years it’s part of the reason why the Celtics haven’t gotten over the hump and won that 18th title now having porzingis out there being able to switch him onto smaller players be able to take advantage of that in the post that’s something Boston is really going to rely on the other thing it will help with malikia is their Rim defense the Celtics in these playoffs have struggled a lot at The Rim at times they struggled for the first three games particular against the Indiana Pacers who got to the rim and scored with ease having Chris as porzingis at 7’3 out there protecting the rim will be a huge thing for the Celtics in this series so obviously big for them to have his shooting element and his post element on offense his Rim defense at the other end and now we just wait to see how many minutes he’ll be able to go in game one and if there is any kind of reaction to that calf 5 weeks after he HED against the Heat right all in all good news though that christops porzingis is expected to be available for this game one for the Boston Celtic [Music]

Who will win NBA Finals MVP? 🏆 NBA Today make their picks!
Tyler Fulghum joins NBA Today to give his best bets for the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks. Then, Tim Bontemps weighs in on expectations for Kristaps Porzingis when he returns for the NBA Finals.
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