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Are the Timberwolves now NBA title favorites? Jayson Tatum injured, cavs out

While the Timberwolves can complete in five games in five games on Wednesday evening, there were many news in the NBA that dramatically postponed the chain of the championship.

The Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum broke his Achilles tendon on Monday and climbed extremely hard climbing the Celtics to climb a 3-1 hole against the Knicks. The Cleveland Cavaliers of the Eastern Conference No. 1 were eliminated by the Pacers, which gave the wolves according to Fanduel Sportsbook the third best chances of winning for the NBA championship with 6 to 1. The Thunder, who took 3-2 against the Nuggets on Tuesday despite a Nikola Jokic championship class, are the clear favorites.

2025 NBA championship offenses over Fanduel Sportion (Before playing on May 14th)

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2025 NBA championship violations

Oklahoma City Thunder

-140

New York Knicks

+490

Minnesota Timberwolves

+600

Indiana Pacers

+700

Boston Celtics

+2600

Denver nuggets

+2900

Golden State Warriors

+19000

At +600, Timberwolves, according to Fanduel, have an implicit probability of 14.29% implicitly to win their first NBA championship. After the beginning of the post -season as an outsider against the Lakers, you saw a meteoric rise of the title soil list.

The main reason why the Knicks are about the chances of the wolves is probably because New York would have a much cheaper potential matchup in the conference final against Indiana compared to Minnesota, which would be exposed to the title favorite-Donner.

According to Fanduel, Knicks-Thunder is the most likely NBA final matchup at +160 chances of winning, followed by Pacers-Thunder at +200 and then Timberwolves-Knicks at +600. Anthony Edwards is now among the favorites to win the NBA final MVP at +700.

Although it could be tempting to look into the next round, the Timberwolves of course still have a golden state in front of them. They are 11 points betting favorites for game 5 on Wednesday evening in the Target Center.

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