2024-25 NBA Eastern Conference Betting - Basketball Lines

2024-25 NBA Eastern Conference Betting Online

The Boston Celtics were the dominant team in the Eastern Conference last season and have opened as the betting favorite to win the 2024-25 Eastern Conference title. Boston went 16-2 in the 2024 NBA Playoffs en route to the title and were never seriously threatened.

If Joel Embiid can stay healthy, the Philadelphia 76ers would be the top threat to take out the Celtics, who have won two of the previous three Eastern Conference championships.

On the next level after the Celtics are the New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks. New York won a playoff series last year and overcame numerous injuries to stay in the hunt. Milwaukee has one of the best players in the NBA, Giannis Antetokounmpo, who led them to the 2021 NBA title.

The Eastern Conference lacks the strength of the West and is top-heavy. In the upcoming season the championship will be Boston’s to lose.

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Eastern Conference Winners (2000)

There has not been a repeat champion in the Eastern Conference since LeBron James took the Cleveland Cavaliers to four straight NBA Finals with the help of Kyrie Irving. Cleveland won the NBA Finals in 2016, ending decades of futility among the city’s professional sports teams by beating the Golden State Warriors.

That came after James and Dwyane Wade led the Miami Heat to four straight Eastern Conference titles from 2011 to 2014. James ended up playing in eight straight NBA Finals, and that success helped spur the wild player movement that has made the NBA offseason so interesting.

Five different franchises have won the last six Eastern Conference titles. Toronto and Milwaukee went on to win the NBA title, but the other four teams fell short, including the Miami Heat twice.

Conference Finals Results By Team

The Boston Celtics have been the most successful team in the Eastern Conference by a country mile. They put together one of the greatest runs we’ve seen in North American sports by winning 11 NBA Championships in 13 seasons, and the Celtics won the Eastern Division 12 times in that stretch. They had another great run in the 1980s, winning the Eastern Conference in four straight seasons from 1984 to 1987 with Larry Bird leading the way.

Philadelphia has claimed the second-most Eastern Conference titles, but the 76ers haven’t made it to the NBA Finals since Allen Iverson was in his prime. They are one of the oldest NBA franchises, as they were originally the Syracuse Nationals, and they made it to the NBA Finals three times in their first six seasons.

We have seen the New York Knicks claim eight Eastern Conference titles, but the Knicks have not won the conference since 1999, and their last NBA title came in 1973. They made the NBA Finals three straight seasons from 1951 to 1953, but they were unable to get past the great George Mikan and the Minneapolis Lakers.

Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six Eastern Conference titles and six NBA championships in the 1990s. The Bulls have only been able to reach the Eastern Conference Finals once since Jordan retired though, and that was the season where Derrick Rose was named the NBA MVP.

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