Golden State Warriors Odds

Golden State Warriors 2021-22 Season

There’s nothing more you can say about the Warriors this season than that they’re back. Steph Curry is playing at MVP levels again, Draymond Green is an All-Star and we finally got the Klay Thompson return we’ve been waiting for since the 2019 NBA Finals. Put all that together – plus a strong crop of role players that are producing for Steve Kerr – and Golden State is back to competing for an NBA Championship atop the Western Conference.

Currently second in the West at the All-Star break, the Warriors have some competition ahead of them – namely with the Phoenix Suns – before getting to the top of the mountain again…

Betting on the Golden State Warriors

The Warriors look to be one of the strongest teams heading into the second half of the year. Here are some of the most popular wager types you can capitalize on when betting the Warriors the rest of the way in 2022.

• Moneyline
• Point Spread
• Over/Under
• Props
• Futures Odds

Warriors Moneyline

Moneyline bets are among the most popular in the betting market, and lots of bettors like to do multiple at the same time -- called parlay bets. Moneylines are wagers simply on which team will win or lose. As opposed to the spread bet, the margin of victory doesn't matter with moneylines.

Let's look at another Warriors example:

• Golden State Warriors +140
• Los Angeles Lakers -165

Now in this example, the Warriors are underdogs, shown by the plus sign. That means they're likely to lose, and thus you'll get a boosted payout if they win. You can read the odds in increments of $100, so a bet at that amount on the Warriors moneyline would pay out $140. If you wanted to bet the Lakers to win, you'd have to pay $165 for every $100 you wanted to profit.

Warriors Spread

The Warriors of 2021-22 are 29-26-4 against-the-spread so far this season, putting them 10th in the NBA. That refers to spread bets, which are wagers on the margin of victory in a game. Here's an example of a Warriors spread:

• Golden State Warriors (-5.5)
• Sacramento Kings (+5.5)

In this example, the Warriors are 5.5-point favorites, and you can tell they're favored to win because of the minus sign next to them. With spread bets, you can take either side of the game -- the Warriors or Kings, in this instance. A bet on the Warriors spread would cash only if the Dubs won the game by six points or more. If the Kings won outright or lost by five or fewer points, that side of the spread bet would cash.

Warriors Over/Unders

Even with such a high-powered offense, the Warriors have one of the best defenses in the league, which means their over/under numbers may be more surprising than you think. In 2021-22, Golden State is 24-33-2 on overs, which puts them in the bottom 5 of the league.

Over/under bets, if you don't know, are bets on how many points will be scored in a game by both teams. Say the Dubs and Lakers had a total of 224 points: An over bet would hit at 225 or more points and an under would cash at 223 or fewer. If the Warriors and Lakers hit exactly 224 points at the final whistle, it would be a "push" and no bettors would lose.

Warriors Prop Bets

Stephen Curry was a scoring machine last season, as he's been his entire career when healthy. If you don't trust the Warriors but love Steph, you can bet just on him. That's called a player prop, and they're tied to stats in the box score. For example, you could bet over/under Curry to score 30.5 points or him to record a double-double.

Warriors Future Odds

Expectations will always be high in Golden state with the Splash Bros on the team, which means bettors will have to shop for the best line to get good odds on Warriors futures bets. Futures are bets that focus on long term outcomes, like the Warriors to make the playoffs , win the Pacific Division, win the Western Conference, win the NBA Finals, or even individual awards like Steph Curry winning league MVP.

How to Bet on the Golden State Warriors

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