Cleveland Cavaliers 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
The Cleveland Cavaliers have picked up where they left off last year. In 2023-24, the Cavaliers advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs before losing in the second round to the Boston Celtics in five games. In the first half of the 2024-25 season, Cleveland has been the dominant team in the Eastern Conference. Most important of all, Cleveland is printing money as one of the most profitable teams in the Association. Yet most gamblers believe that the Celtics are still the team to beat in the East.
2024-25 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Betting Lines
As the All-Star break approaches, the Cleveland Cavaliers are 40-9 straight up, 33-16 against the spread, and 33-16 over/under the total. Cleveland is first in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. The Boston Celtics are 5.5 games behind the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Cleveland has NBA metrics of 2nd for scoring offense, 2nd for field goal percentage, 1st for 3-point field goal percentage, 15th for free throw percentage, and 13th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Cavaliers have NBA metrics of 10th for scoring defense, 9th for field goal percentage permitted, 21st for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 11th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
SG Donovan Mitchell led the Cavs with 26.6 points and 6.1 assists per game last year. Mitchell is a 6-time NBA All-Star. In the playoffs, Mitchell averaged 29.6 points and 4.7 assists. This year, Mithcell is averaging 23.7 points and 4.7 assists per game. Mitchell is an NBA All-Star this year.
Last season, 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. So far this season, Allen is averaging 13.78 points and 10 rebounds per game.
PG Darius Garland brings 21.7 points and 6.9 assists per contest. Garland was the 5th overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft out of Vanderbilt by the Cavaliers. He is a 2-time All-Star, including this year.
PF Evan Mobley averages 18.3 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He was the third overall pick of the 2021 NBA Draft out of USC by the Cavs. He is a first-time NBA All-Star this year.
Head Coach
Kenny Atkinson takes over as head coach, arriving from Golden State, where he was an assistant coach. He was head coach of the Brooklyn Nets from 2016-17 through 2019-20.
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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