{"id":27298,"date":"2025-05-12T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/27298\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:16:10","slug":"sports-betting-roundup-surprises-emerge-in-nba-and-nhl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/27298\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports betting roundup: Surprises emerge in NBA and NHL playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a few surprises in both the NBA<\/a> and NHL<\/a> playoffs, including the No. 1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers trailing the Indiana Pacers 3-1<\/a> in their best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n

Indiana is now -325 to win the series at the BetMGM online sportsbook.<\/p>\n

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In the NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers are knotted at two games apiece following Florida\u2019s 2-0 win<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Things will heat up even more this week, with the conference finals matchups in each sport being close to determined.<\/p>\n

Trends of the Week<\/p>\n

The Panthers, who won 2-0, were -185 on the moneyline against the Maple Leafs on Sunday night, but took in only 18% of the bets and 33% of the money. When it came to the over-under, 56% of the bets and 69% of the money was on the over.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Golden States Warriors 102-97<\/a> Saturday night on the road to take a 2-1 series lead. Minnesota closed as a 5.5-point favorite, and a meaningless 3-pointer from Golden State\u2019s Jonathan Kuminga at the buzzer gave the Warriors the cover. At BetMGM, 85% of the money was on the Timberwolves to cover the 5.5-point spread.<\/p>\n

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Upsets of the Week<\/p>\n

Cleveland was a 5.5-point favorite for Game 4 against Indiana, but got blown out 129-101 in a game where they trailed by 41 points at the half. Cleveland took in 62% of the bets in against-the-spread betting, and 46% of the money. When it came to the moneyline, Indiana at +185 took in 64% of the bets and 40% of the money.<\/p>\n

Golden State\u2019s Buddy Hield had hit his over points prop going into Saturday\u2019s game, and 99% of the money was on him to go over 14.5 points. Hield finished with 14 points in the Warriors\u2019 loss.<\/p>\n

Sepp Straka won the Truist Championship<\/a>, which is a PGA Tour signature event. Straka finished at 16 under for a two-shot win on Sunday. This was his second win of the season. Going into the event, Straka was +3300 to win and took in just 1.6% of the bets and 1% of the money in the outright winner market.<\/p>\n

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Coming Up<\/p>\n

The NFL schedule<\/a> will be released on Wednesday, and Super Bowl odds are available for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> remain the favorites to repeat at +650. The Baltimore Ravens are right behind at +700, followed by the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> both at +750.<\/p>\n

The Detroit Lions round out the top five at +900.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

This column was provided to The Associated Press by BetMGM online sportsbook.<\/p>\n

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AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been a few surprises in both the NBA and NHL playoffs, including the No. 1-seeded Cleveland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2078,4613,2077,722,2079,7195,5,7192,7194,2075,2074,555,4,7193,2076,244,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-27298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-buddy-hield","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-detroit-lions","13":"tag-golden-state","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","17":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-online-sportsbook","22":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","23":"tag-the-panthers","24":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114495762161813875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}