{"id":147981,"date":"2020-09-08T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=147981"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:11:22","slug":"big-nba-playoff-bets-on-milwaukee-bucks-come-up-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/big-nba-playoff-bets-on-milwaukee-bucks-come-up-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Big NBA Playoff Bets on Milwaukee Bucks Come Up Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mobile bettor at William Hill saw his big bets go down the drain before the Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 NBA playoff game against the Miami Heat even tipped off.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is the favorite to win this year\u2019s NBA MVP, watched from the bench as Miami eliminated the Bucks on Tuesday night. (Image: Kim Klement\/USA TODAY Sports<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A bettor placed a $42,000 money-line wager on the Bucks to beat the Heat in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Tuesday night. At +165, the payout would have been $111,300.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The bettor also placed a $42,000 wager on the spread. With the Bucks a four-point underdog (-110), the payout would have been an additional $80,220.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Instead, Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, the reigning MVP and favorite to win the award again this year, was inactive because of an ankle injury sustained in the Bucks\u2019 Game 4 victory. Milwaukee fought hard, but lost 103-94. Just like that, the team with the best record in the regular season was unceremoniously eliminated, 4-1.<\/p>\n

Bucks Can\u2019t Beat the Heat<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Bucks entered the playoffs at +300 to win the championship, the second-shortest odds. Instead, for the second consecutive season, the regular-season powerhouse got decked before reaching the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

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The Heat, which reached the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2014, was +400 to win the series. Now, it\u2019s the favorite to win the conference at +105 at PointsBet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The playoffs will continue on Wednesday. In the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics hold a 3-2 lead over the defending champion Toronto Raptors. Boston is a three-point favorite in the game and -450 to win the series.<\/p>\n

In the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Clippers have a 2-1 lead over the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers are an eight-point favorite and a massive -2,000 to win the series. The Clippers are the favorite to win the NBA Championship at BetMGM. They are +190, the Lakers are +275 and the Heat is +450.<\/p>\n

Keeping Giannis<\/h2>\n

The Bucks and Clippers are the early favorites to win the 2020-21 NBA championship.<\/strong> At PointsBet, they are +350, the Lakers are +375, and Golden State and Miami are +500.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bucks\u2019 odds depend largely on Antetokounmpo\u2019s future. He\u2019ll be a free agent at the end of next season. Small-market Milwaukee can hand him a supermax contract extension worth a reported $220 million, which is significantly more than any other team can offer.<\/p>\n

Will Antetokounmpo take the money and continue to grow with the community he calls home? Or will he refuse to sign the contract and perhaps force a trade to a team he deems more likely to win it all?<\/p>\n

After the game, he sounded intent on staying with the team that drafted him with the 15th pick in 2013.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we can learn from this and get better as a team and come back,\u201d <\/strong>Antetokounmpo told reporters after the game. \u201cHopefully, we can build a culture in Milwaukee that, for many years, we can come out and compete every single year for a championship.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Asked by Yahoo Sports if he might leave Milwaukee, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s not happening. That\u2019s not happening. Some see a wall and go in [another direction]. I plow through it. We just have to get better as a team, individually and get right back at it next season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going back to the big bets on the Bucks, it was a victory for William Hill, which paid out big money on Denver in one playoff game,<\/a> and even bigger money on Denver in another<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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