The best way to make an Eastern Conference wager in the futures market is one of two ways. You can either just go in heavily on the Cleveland Cavaliers, or you can make a recovery play. This is simply a way of spreading some money around on two or three longshots (in this case, everyone else) and then leveraging enough money on the favorite (in this case Cleveland) to recover all of those other bets. It’s the smart way to take a chance on the market if you feel like Cleveland is as incomplete and infested with plagues as everyone else is trying to make them seem. This is a different tactic than what you’ll have to do in the Western Conference, which I’ll attack later this week.

Cleveland Cavaliers (-325 to win the Eastern Conference)

I’m not going to spend a lot of time here. We can all safely assume that Cleveland is both talented and driven enough to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. This isn’t to say that teams aren’t prone to monumental collapses at any given time, but there’s no point in going on and on about the Cavaliers.

They have dysfunctional problems, but they’re also fully healthy with three of the best players in the entire conference. That talent is enough to overcome a lot of their in-house adversity. Cleveland remains the best option in the Eastern Conference and is a great recovery play if you’d prefer to swing large on some of the other contenders.

The best way to make an Eastern Conference wager in the futures market is one of two ways. You can either just go in heavily on the Cleveland Cavaliers, or you can make a recovery play. This is simply a way of spreading some money around on two or three longshots (in this case, everyone else) and then leveraging enough money on the favorite (in this case Cleveland) to recover all of those other bets. It’s the smart way to take a chance on the market if you feel like Cleveland is as incomplete and infested with plagues as everyone else is trying to make them seem. This is a different tactic than what you’ll have to do in the Western Conference, which I’ll attack later this week.

Cleveland Cavaliers (-325 to win the Eastern Conference)

I’m not going to spend a lot of time here. We can all safely assume that Cleveland is both talented and driven enough to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. This isn’t to say that teams aren’t prone to monumental collapses at any given time, but there’s no point in going on and on about the Cavaliers.

They have dysfunctional problems, but they’re also fully healthy with three of the best players in the entire conference. That talent is enough to overcome a lot of their in-house adversity. Cleveland remains the best option in the Eastern Conference and is a great recovery play if you’d prefer to swing large on some of the other contenders.