2024/25 NBA Championship Odds: Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunder favored

Who lifts the Larry O'Brien Trophy at the end of the 2024/25 NBA season?

The Boston Celtics are the 2023/24 NBA champions after beating the Dallas Mavericks in five games.

Let's take a look at the latest NBA title odds.

2024/25 NBA Championship odds

BOS Celtics	+190
OKC Thunder	+190
CLE Cavaliers	+600
LA Lakers	+1100
DEN Nuggets	+1400
GS Warriors	+1800
NY Knicks	+2000
MIL Bucks	+4500
MEM Grizzlies	+5000

The reigning champion Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder are the joint favorites (+190) to win the 2024/25 NBA Championship.

Boston has been the favorite since the beginning of the season. Through 57 games played, the Celtics are 43-18 for the season, and they have been better on the road (24-7) than at home (19-11).

Head coach Joe Mazzulla's team shoots the most threes by far in the NBA - 48.0 attempts per game against a league-low 42.1 two-point attempts per game - but has been making their threes at the seventh-best mark in the league of 37.0 percent. Boston is still third in offensive rating (119.7) and fifth in defensive rating (110.9) and the superstar duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are averaging 26.8 points and 23.2 points, respectively.

The Thunder lead the Western Conference with a 50-11 record, and point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the heavy MVP favorite.

Jalen Williams joined SGA as an All-Star, and coach Mark Daigneault's team has both the lowest offensive turnover rate (10.5 percent) and the highest defensive turnover rate (15.5) in the NBA. This defense-first team ranks first in DRtg (107.0) and allows the lowest effective field goal percentage (51.1) in the NBA.

Third in the market are the Cleveland Cavaliers (+600), who began the season 15-0, were the first team to win 50 games this season, have the league's best record at 51-10, and are 10-0 in their last 10 games. Head coach Kenny Atkinson's team leads the league in three-point percentage (39.4) and ORtg (123.0).

Cleveland has 10 players in the rotation who average at least 7.0 points. Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland and Evan Mobley lead the way with 24.3, 21.1 and 18.6 points per game, respectively. Plus, the Cavs acquired De'Andre Hunter from the Atlanta Hawks ahead of the trade deadline, who is shooting 56.8 percent from three in nine games with the team. In those nine games, opponents are shooting just 26.8 percent from three with Hunter as the nearest defender.

The Los Angeles Lakers, who are 8-2 in their last 10 games thanks in part to the blockbuster trade for Luka Doncic, have the fourth-shortest title odds (+1100).

Between Doncic and LeBron James, LA has two players who can average 30 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in the playoffs. In the nine games Doncic has played as a Laker so far, he's averaging 24.0 points, 8.6 rebounds, 8.1 assists, and 1.9 steals while James is posting 27.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, 9.4 assists and 1.2 steals per game in that span.

The Denver Nuggets are fifth in the betting (+1400). Three-time NBA MVP center Nikola Jokic has been his usual self with 28.9 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists per game while shooting a career-high 44.3 percent from beyond the arc. The team has a 39-22 record that's good for third in the West, and three key players aside from Jokic - guard Jamal Murray, wing/forward Michael Porter Jr., and forward Aaron Gordon - are shooting over 40.0 percent from three.

The Golden State Warriors, who are 8-2 since acquiring Jimmy Butler ahead of the trade deadline, are sixth in the market and the last team shorter than 20/1 to win it all (+1800). Superstar guard Steph Curry is averaging 28.9 points and 6.9 assists on 41.9 percent shooting from beyond the arc since Butler arrived, and Butler is averaging 15.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.4 assists while shooting 42.3 percent from the field.

The New York Knicks (+2000) are next in the market, followed by a steep drop-off to the Milwaukee Bucks (+4500) and the Memphis Grizzlies (+5000).

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Odds displayed in this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.