NBA Draft Odds: Cunningham Atop Board

The NBA Draft will take place in Brooklyn on Thursday night as teams try to pick the best players from the crop of potential future NBA stars.

The Detroit Pistons hold the first overall pick and the consensus No. 1 according to the experts is Cade Cunningham. And the oddsmakers at the Bovada Sportsbook agree after listing Cunningham as a -8000 favorite on their first overall pick prop bet.

The experts aren’t as clear cut on who will go No. 2 to the Houston Rockets but the favorite is Jalen Green. At Bovada on their No. 2 pick prop Green is favored at -375. The only other player getting any real consideration at No. 2 on the odds list is Evan Mobley at +300. If you’re a risk taker you can also get Jalen Suggs at +1200.

Not surprisingly the favorite to be picked No. 3 by the Cleveland Cavaliers is Mobley at -240. If you think Green might fall to No. 3, he is listed at +210, while Suggs is also considered to be a contender at +400.

Cunningham, Green, Mobley the Top Three?

Usually predicting the top three picks exactly can be a pretty lucrative bet on draft day. With the top three picks close to a sure thing according to the experts, though, this year might be an exception. At Bovada on their Exact Top 3 picks prop Cunningham, Green, and Mobley is heavily favored at -225. That’s followed by Cunningham, Mobley, and Green at +350, and a ton of other options with much higher odds because it would be a shocker if one of those first two outcomes didn’t happen.

With the top three picks looking like a near lock this year the real money to be made by bettors is in the OVER/UNDER draft slot props. Here are a couple examples that caught our attention.

In the OVER/UNDER list one interesting wager could be James Bouknight. His OVER/UNDER is listed at 7.5 with the UNDER favored at -185. On some mock drafts Bouknight is predicted to go as high as No. 6, while most experts expect him to land somewhere around No. 8 on the night.

One other notable OVER/UNDER pick is Alperen Sengun at 13.5 with the UNDER favored at -215. He’s all over the map on mock drafts, appearing as high as 11 in some and as low as 17 in others.