3 Plus Money NBA Bets To Take Before the 2024-25 Season

The Miami Heat have +150 odds to win the Southeast Division.
There are +1100 odds on Josh Giddey to win the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award.
The San Antonio Spurs have +400 odds to make the playoffs.

LAS VEGAS – The NBA season is approaching and there are plenty of preseason odds to take a look at for a multitude of teams and players. Getting in on specific odds before the season starts could result in massive profits on a smaller bet size.

The three bets with major plus money on legal sports betting sites are going to come on the Miami Heat, Josh Giddey of the Chicago Bulls, and the San Antonio Spurs.

South Beach Bringing Back The Heat

Southeast Division Winner Odds

Orlando Magic -150
Miami Heat +150
Atlanta Hawks +1000
Charlotte Hornets +5500
Washington Wizards +40000

For just the second time in six years, the Miami Heat have opened the season at plus money to win the Southeast division. Miami is also the all time leader in division titles with 12 to their name. The last time the Heat opened the season at plus money NBA odds to win the division in 2021-22, they won.

This season just seems like things are on the way up for the Miami Heat. They are going into the season fully healthy and will run a starting five of Terry Rozier, Tyler Herro, Nikola Jovic, and Bam Adebayo for the first time since trading for Rozier last season.

Sticking with Jimmy Butler, this is his statement year and he has made that very clear.

“I don’t know, but I want to play as many games as possible—I’ll leave it at that. I don’t need to put a number on the amount of games that I play. I know the more games I play, the more opportunities my squad has of winning. I do know that.”

When asked about his opportunity to sign an extension, he reiterated that he just wants to win.

“It means nothing to me at all—If we’re being brutally honest, no matter what nothing I do now is going to get me paid any more money, even though I don’t care about the money. I’m at a point right now where I have more than enough money. I’m just here to win.”

The Heat will get a chance to prove their division odds with their opening game against the Orlando Magic.

A Fresh Start For Josh Giddey

Most Improved Player Of The Year Odds

Josh Giddey +1100

After starting his NBA career with the Oklahoma City Thunder for three seasons, Josh Giddey was traded to the Chicago Bulls where he will get a fresh start to lead a young core and progress his career. Some could argue that Giddey was not used the right way with OKC which caused his numbers to dip last season from 16.6 ppg/6.2 apg/7.9 rpg the season before 12.3 ppg/4.8 apg/6.4 rpg.

Fast track to this season, Giddey opened on the depth chart as the starting point guard for Chicago and his “Do It All” playstyle will allow him to have a bounce back year with plenty of talent surrounding him that will only benefit him.

Spurs Development Pays Off

Will The Spurs Make The Playoffs?

Yes +400
No -650

While the +400 odds might be steep, the payoff is great and there is reason to believe in a huge step forward for San Antonio. The first is their development. Over the last five years, the Spurs have drafted key players in Tre Jones, Keldon Johnson, Devin Vassell, Jeremy Sochan, Stephon Castle, and most notably, Victor Wembanyama.

If there is one thing to note, it is that head coach, Gregg Popovich, knows how to develop star players as we’ve seen with Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili. Now, he has had the opportunity to develop young players with all of their most recent draft picks and this could very well be the season that the results start to show by making the playoffs.

Along with the development of their young talent, in the offseason, San Antonio went out and got proven winning veterans such as Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes to help mentor. Paul has made the playoffs 15 times in his career while Barnes has won an NBA title. If all clicks for San Antonio, we could be seeing them in the postseason.

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Sam Profeta

Samuel has been writing professionally for 4 years. He comes from a sports writing background where he enjoys writing mostly about basketball and football both professional and collegiate. He is a recent graduate of Florida State University where he majored in Editing, Writing and Media with a minor in Communications. During his free time, you can find him watching or playing sports as well as playing videogames and listening to music.