NBA Finals Betting Odds: Is Vegas Overlooking the Celtics?

The Boston Celtics are a team in limbo. 

Boston has gone through a lot of turnover this offseason. Danny Ainge and Kemba Walker are gone, Brad Stevens has moved upstairs to the front office and Al Horford is back. 

The Celtics severely underperformed last season, going .500 and losing in the first round of the playoffs. Walker wasn’t the player the Celtics thought he was going to be when they signed him two years ago and it was apparent throughout the entire season. Yet that was last season and Boston is ready to turn the page.

WynnBET is giving the Celtics +7500 odds to win the NBA title in 2022. Although their odds seem reasonable, it is who they are behind that makes them overlooked. Right above the Celtics, sit the Indiana Pacers. Indiana missed out on the playoffs after embarrassing themselves in the second game of the play-in against the Wizards. 

Boston should be higher than the Pacers and should have a brighter outlook on next season. Although Walker is gone, his presence wasn’t an overwhelming positive one and is a manageable loss. Jaylen Brown was also out for the playoffs due to surgery on a torn ligament in his wrist. 

Brown averaged a career-high 24.7 points in 2020 and was only looking better and better as the season went on. Along with Brown’s return is Al Horford’s return to TD Garden. Horford will bring a much-needed rebounding presence for the Celtics and give them a big man that can actually shoot.

I haven’t even said anything about Jayson Tatum yet. 

The Celtics have a couple things they can hang their hats on going into next season. With a core of Tatum, Brown and Horford, Boston could be an interesting play at +7500. If the Brooklyn Nets weren’t who they were, I would love the value of the Celtics. 

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