{"id":42003,"date":"2025-05-18T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42003\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:50:09","slug":"wolves-vs-thunder-odds-lines-betting-oklahoma-city-opens-as-biggest-western-conference-finals-favorite-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42003\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves vs. Thunder odds, lines, betting: Oklahoma City opens as biggest Western Conference finals favorite in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets gave the Oklahoma City Thunder all they could handle, but the Thunder <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/nuggets-vs-thunder-score-recap-thunder-rout-nuggets-in-game-7-to-advance-to-western-conference-finals-220347842.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:prevailed 125-93 in Game 7 on Sunday;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prevailed 125-93 in Game 7 on Sunday <\/a>to advance to the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>They will face the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team returning to the conference finals for the second straight season after beating the Golden State Warriors in five games in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City opened as a big -375 favorite in the series at <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaserver.betmgmpartners.com\/renderBanner.do?zoneId=1734022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BetMGM;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BetMGM<\/a>, with the Timberwolves coming back as +300 underdogs. The Thunder are the biggest favorites in the conference finals in the franchise&#8217;s history, even dating back to their Seattle SuperSonics days.<\/p>\n<p>After the Thunder went 55-23-4 against the spread (70.5%) this season \u2014 the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/article\/2025-nba-playoffs-betting-odds-lines-oklahoma-city-thunder-complete-best-nba-regular-season-ats-in-35-years-220950866.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:best regular-season ATS in 35 years;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best regular-season ATS in 35 years<\/a> \u2014 they have struggled against the number in the playoffs, going just 4-7 ATS. The Timberwolves, on the other hand, have been terrific to bettors this postseason, going 8-2 against the number, including two outright wins as underdogs in their first-round series against LeBron James, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are 7.5-point favorites at BetMGM in Game 1 in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night, with a total of 214.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets gave the Oklahoma City Thunder all they could handle, but the Thunder prevailed 125-93 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,187,164,185,150,368,152,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312,3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-42003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver-nuggets","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-oklahoma","17":"tag-oklahoma-city","18":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","19":"tag-oklahomacity","20":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","21":"tag-thunder","22":"tag-western-conference-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114531521325167538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42003","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=42003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}