If there’s any benefit from the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament, it’s the instant gratification we get just weeks into the regular season.
Getting ahead of NBA awards like Most Improved Player or Rookie of the Year can be profitable, but those tickets don’t get realized until five months from now.
The group stage of the NBA Cup will be wrapped by next Tuesday and the entire tournament will be wrapped by Dec. 9.
If you’ve been paying close attention to the prices offered by FanDuel and the tiebreaker rules for the round robin, you might identify some opportunities.
New York Knicks primed for wildcard berth
As it stands FanDuel has the Knicks as 4400 longshots to win the In-Season Tournament.
I’m not suggesting they end up winning it, but I think they’re in better position to enter the knockout stage than they’re currently getting credit for.
New York is 1400 to win East Group B and that’s fair.
However, with one win over the Miami Heat on Friday (which they’re currently favoured to), they’d be the front-runners for the East wild-card spot.
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