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Knicks vs Cavaliers Odds – NBA Playoffs Futures Betting Lines

Series Winner: New York Knicks (+180), Cleveland Cavaliers (-223)
Series Total Games:
Over 4.5 (-1000)
Under 4.5 (+475)
Over 5.5 (-182)
Under 5.5 (+130)
Over 6.5 (+200)
Total Number of Games:
4 Games (+575)
5 Games (+230)
6 Games (+210)
7 Games (+210)
Series Correct Score:
Cleveland Cavaliers 4-0 (+800)
Cleveland Cavaliers 4-1 (+300)
Cleveland Cavaliers 4-2 (+450)
Cleveland Cavaliers 4-3 (+400)
New York Knicks 4-0 (+1550)
New York Knicks 4-1 (+1400)
New York Knicks 4-2 (+600)
New York Knicks 4-3 (+600)

Odds are subject to change*

Knicks vs Cavaliers Series Predictions & Expert Picks  - 2023 NBA Playoffs Rountable Betting Preview

TV/Radio Host, Anthony Lima: First of all, home court advantage: Does that mean anything in this series, knowing how good the Knicks are on the road but how good the Cavs have been at home? 

Joe Vardon, NBA writer for The Athletic : Yeah, and the Cavs stink on the road. So let's start with that.

I think the headliner in this series is Donovan Mitchell. He thought he was going to the Knicks. By all rights, he should have been going to the Knicks. The Knicks ultimately couldn't get that done. They wouldn't pony up what the Utah Jazz were looking for in late summer. Donovan ends up in Cleveland, and in my opinion, he just changes everything for this franchise. It was a team that had made some strides last year, fell off late, and up until the Donovan Mitchell trade, we were coming back with really no differences in an East that had gotten a lot better. Mitchell shows up. He has the game of the year by all accounts, with 71 points. He makes them way more dynamic on offense. He's brought a certain confidence and a certain attitude to the way they play. He's on my ballot as a first-teamer for all NBA because of the impact that he had.

I think the Cavs won five or six more games in the regular season than they did last year, and he was their only addition. So you can look and say that he was worth the six wins. So I think you start there. He's from New York, Greater New York. He will be motivated to beat his hometown team. He loved LeBron when LeBron came to Cleveland. And so he understands the history, but he also knows that he has a chance to be the author of his own Cavs chapter. And he already did that with the 71 points, however many games that he had. I think it was 11 or 12 that he scored 40 or more that, you know, that hadn't been done here. So he's writing it. He wants to continue to write it. And beating the Knicks in the first round will be the next step there. 

Anthony Lima: The Knicks are an underdog in this series with the Cavs -215. Neither team with a lot of actual playoff experience. So how big of a factor do you think that will be in this series? 

Jason Lloyd, Senior Columnist for the Athletic: Yeah, both teams have to rely on their veterans. And for the Cavs that means Donovan. Obviously, as Joe was saying, this team goes where Donovan and Darius take them.

They've been guard dominant all year long and those two have the ball in their hands on almost every possession. And you know the other guy, I've been saying it for weeks now, I really think Danny Green's going to have a big role in this series for the Cavs. He's a guy who has hardly played at all... (They) wanted him for his veteran experience, his ability to shoot and I just think you can't play four-on-five in a playoff series when the game slows down. The Cavs played a slow place to begin with and that grinds even slower in a playoff series. We all know that everything really turns into halfcourt sets and if you have a guy in the corner who the other team doesn't respect, and I'm talking about Isaac Okoro. Of course, had a great year for the Cavs shooting the ball, but teams still don't respect him enough to guard him. And too often they're playing four-on-five on the offensive end of the floor and it's going to be too hard to score that way. So I absolutely think Danny could play a big role in being able to just be a threat out there that the Knicks have to be aware of and know where he's at on the floor at all times.

I do think the Cavs being so young, being untested, being the fact that this is their real first playoff experience, you know? How will they handle that hostile environment, how do they handle something like the Garden? I think it's unrealistic to think that they're going to hold serve and win four games at home. I just think the Knicks are probably going to steal the win in Cleveland. And now you have to go to the Garden and win. We saw it with Boston a couple of years ago when a Cavs team, and I think outside of LeBron, the talent on this team I think is better than what the Cavs had in 2018. But you saw a team with a lot of young guys really struggle. In an environment like in Boston, they lost the first three road games and then they relied heavily on LeBron, obviously in Game seven to pull them through. And you could have a similar type scenario here where if you got to go to the Garden to win a game, that's where Donovan is really going to have to deliver for this team on the road in a hostile environment.

This is the first time a serious Garland gets to react to a playoff setting. How's Evan Mobley going to react with the ball in his hands? So there are a lot of unknowns on both sides. The Cavs to me, though, are the more talented team. I do think they're more talented. But, I don't know how you don't give the coaching edge to New York right now at this point just because it's Tom Thibodeau. He's one of the best defensive-minded coaches in the league, and JB just hasn't been there before. I would argue that you could have said the same thing, though, in 2016 when it was Ty Lue against Stan Van Gundy with the Cavs in the first round, and everyone would have given the nod to Stan Van Gundy and Ty Lue was spectacular and that's what we need to see out of J.B. Bickerstaff. That's what I'm curious to see. How does he handle after timeout situations coming out of a timeout when you've got to have it. You're on the road and the Knicks just scored eight straight. You call a timeout now: what're your inbounds play? Where are you going to go to and what's going to get you a basket to quiet down the crowd to kill the momentum, to get you back on board? That's the type of stuff that we have to see. JB has never been in that position, and so this is a real test for him, not only for the players but also for him. 

Anthony Lima: Alright but gun to the head, you got to make a choice. Are you going with the home team? Is that going to be the edge in a potential game seven for the Cavs? 

Jason Lloyd: I think it's going seven. I think it's going six or seven. Like it's going to be a grind of a series. It's hard for me to pick this. It's really, really, really close. I guess I would give the edge to the Cavs because they would be at home for that game seven if it gets to seven. But boy, is it close. Like I don't have a good feeling about this either way. I don't. I think the Knicks are a really hard matchup for the Cavs in the first round, and I guess I would take them since they're the home team in a Game seven. But to me, this is a coin flip. This is probably, I think, the tightest series of all the first-round matchups. 

Joe Vardon: There are two significant injuries in this series. Isaac Okoro hasn't played in weeks because of a knee issue. And in fact, the last time the Cavs saw the Knicks, Okoro wasn't on the floor and Jalen Brunson lit them up without him. So if Isaac can't play at all because they need... Jason's right. He is an offensive liability, but they are shredded when he's not out there on defense at all. So you know, we don't know how healthy he's going to be. And then the Knicks best player or their second-best player or best player one day, Julius Randle also hasn't played in a couple of weeks because of a severe ankle sprain He practiced today. He didn't take any contact. I expect that he'll be out there, but those are two pretty big wildcards. I do like the Cavs in this series. I actually say I'm going to say it's a six-game series, which of course means it could go seven. But I just think the Cavs are a little bit more talented. They have the best player in the series and they have that extra game at home. 

Anthony Lima: And I'm with you, Joe. I think Cavs in six. They better win Game 1. We say it all the time, big playoff series. But all that pressure would, of course, be right squarely on the backs of a very young, inexperienced Cavs team. We remember what happened with Jalen Brunson when he was in Dallas just a year ago, outplaying Donovan Mitchell over the course of the series when Luka Doncic was dealing with an injury. So they can't let that happen. Cavs cannot get stung there in game one, but I think they'll be okay and I think that home court will serve well, but they will close it out on the road in Game six in New York. 

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The Picks: 

Jason Lloyd: Series Total Games - Cleveland Cavaliers - New York Knicks - Series: Over 6.5 (+200)

Joe Vardon: Total Number of Games - Cleveland Cavaliers - New York Knicks - Series: 6 Games (+210)

Anthony Lima: Total Number of Games - Cleveland Cavaliers - New York Knicks - Series: 6 Games (+210)

Series Winner: Cleveland Cavaliers -223 

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