{"id":358703,"date":"2025-10-22T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/358703\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:03:21","slug":"denver-nuggets-2026-championship-odds-entering-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/358703\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets\u2019 2026 championship odds entering regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Nuggets\u2019 season opener around the corner, sportsbooks are putting Denver among the favorites to win it all in 2026.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have +550 odds \u2014 meaning a $100 bet would win $550 \u2014 to win the NBA championship, according to BetMGM<\/a>. They have the second-best odds behind the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder (+240).<\/p>\n

Renck: Nuggets gave Nikola Jokic everything he needs. Now watch him cement his legacy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Denver is still second, according to Draftkings Sportsbook<\/a>, at +600. The Nuggets’ odds are a little worse with Fanduel Sportsbook<\/a>, coming in at third at +700. The Thunder (+210) and Cavaliers (+650) are ahead of them.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets’ over-under for total wins is at 53.5, according to Fanduel and BetMGM. Draftkings has them at 54.5. They were 50-32 last season.<\/p>\n

Denver center Nikola Jokic is the favorite to win his fourth MVP award with +220 odds, according to Draftkings. Fanduel has him at No. 2 at +300, behind Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (+160).<\/p>\n

The Nuggets kick off their 2025-26 regular-season campaign at 8 p.m. Thursday against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Want more Nuggets news? Sign up for the Nuggets Insider to get all our NBA analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Nuggets\u2019 season opener around the corner, sportsbooks are putting Denver among the favorites to win it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,765,301,187,3943,766,165,252,6,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-358703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-front-range","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-more-nuggets-news","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nuggets","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115418196316397523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}