Cleveland Cavaliers 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
Last year, the Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs before losing in the second round to the Boston Celtics in five games. There is no disgrace in losing to the best team and eventual champion of the NBA. And it would be delusional for the Cavs to think that they should have beaten the Celtics. Yet Cleveland made a coaching change after the setback. JB Bickerstaff, who pulled the franchise out of the abyss, was let go for Golden State Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson.
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Last year, The Cleveland Cavaliers were 48-34 straight up, 38-44 against the spread, and 40-41-1 over/under the total. Cleveland was 4th in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Cleveland was 16 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Cleveland had NBA metrics of 20th for scoring offense, 12th for field goal percentage, 15th for 3-point field goal percentage, 22nd for free throw percentage, and 17th for offensive rebounding. While on defense, the Cavaliers had NBA metrics of 7th for scoring defense, 6th for field goal percentage permitted, 21st for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 10th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
SG Donovan Mitchell led the Cavs with 26.6 points and 6.1 assists per game. Mitchell is a 5-time NBA All-Star. In the playoffs, Mitchell averaged 29.6 points and 4.7 assists.
C Jarrett Allen added 16.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. Allen was a 2022 NBA All-Star. In the playoffs, he averaged 17.9 points and 13.8 rebounds per game.
Head Coach
JB Bickerstaff was a career NBA assistant for several teams before landing with the Cavaliers in 2019-20. Previously, he was also an interim head coach of the Houston Rockets. Bickerstaff and the Cavaliers parted ways after the playoff loss to the Boston Celtics.
Kenny Atkinson takes over as head coach, arriving from Golden State, where he was an assistant coach.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
48 |
34 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 1–4 (Celtics) |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
51 |
31 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Knicks) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
44 |
38 |
3rd, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
22 |
50 |
4th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2019–20 |
65 |
19 |
46 |
5th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
19 |
63 |
5th, Central |
Did Not Qualify |
Cleveland Cavaliers History
The Cleveland Cavaliers were born as an NBA expansion franchise in 1970-71 and struggled to keep the attention of local fans until the late 1980s when they emerged as a quality team under coach Lenny Wilkens. The Cavs developed the reputation of being good but not quite great and somewhat snakebit from that point. The iconic image of Michael Jordan killing them off with the game-winning shot in a playoff series summed up what the Cavaliers were all about in those days.
However, the arrival of local phenom LeBron James in 2003 changed all that. James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first NBA Finals appearance in 2007, and the team posted a franchise-best record of 66-16 during the 2008-09 season. They were a contender for five years, but the lack of a quality supporting class led to James leaving for Miami after the 2010 season. Cleveland went from 61-21 to 19-63 the following year, yet that bottoming out allowed the Cavaliers to draft Kyrie Irving and build a supporting cast for James to return to after four years in Miami.
James turned Cleveland into Believeland upon his return to the Cavaliers. The franchise had its most successful run in history, with James and Irving leading the way, making it to the NBA Finals four straight times. Cleveland knocked off the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals to give the city its first major sports title in decades, leading to widespread joy in the streets.
Once again, James left Cleveland for another team following the 2017-18 season. Kyrie Irving moved on from the Cavaliers, too, at that point, leading to the franchise bottoming out once more. That put the Cavaliers back in the lottery, and they built the team through the NBA Draft once again by taking Collin Sexton, Darius Garland, Isaac Okoro, and Evan Mobley over the last five years.
NBA Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Central
Eastern Conference - Southeast
Western Conference - Northwest
Western Conference - Pacific
Western Conference - Southwest
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