Establish The Run

The NBA Finals ended less than one week ago. The NBA Draft is tomorrow. Unlike the NFL, which has nearly three months of buildup between the Super Bowl and the draft, there is no downtime between the end of one NBA season and the beginning of the next. That’s not ideal for draft bettors, as league insiders were understandably focused on the Finals until last weekend. Still, there have been enough breadcrumbs over the past few weeks for gamblers to build a solid portfolio, even if there’s less information and betting opportunities for the NBA Draft compared to its NFL counterpart. Anthony Amico and I have been following the predraft process closely and acting on these breadcrumbs for weeks now. Most betting opportunities have dried up — as you’d expect with fewer than 36 hours until the draft — but we think it’s a cool idea to have a mock draft from the lens of degenerate bettors rather than league insiders.