The Los Angeles Lakers are the favorite to win the NBA championship in 2020.
In anticipation of a potential trade for Davis, the Lakers were installed as the favorites to win next year’s championship at multiple sportsbooks, shortly after the Toronto Raptors finished off the Golden State Warriors on Thursday in a decisive Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
The Lakers’ status as favorites was solidified Sunday. After the trade news broke, Caesars Sportsbook trimmed the Lakers’ odds to win the 2019-20 NBA title from +400 to +350.
The SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas reported accepting a $10,000 bet on the Lakers at 5-1 at 3 p.m. PT, shortly before news of the Lakers’ trade for Davis broke. The Lakers are now 3-1 at the SuperBook.
New York will have in-person sports betting this summer, but will have to wait until at least 2020 for mobile offerings.
If you want to bet legally on sports in New York, your only chance may be to soon go to one of four upstate casinos.
Efforts in the state Legislature to allow for mobile sports betting appears stalled in the Assembly after the measure passed the Senate earlier this week. The legislative session was to end for the year Wednesday.
“I want it to happen. I’m hearing the speaker (Carl Heastie) has issues with it,” the bill’s sponsor, Assembly Racing Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow, D-Mount Vernon, said late Tuesday.
“I’m trying to convince him otherwise. I have the backing of the conference. Most members of the conference are in favor of it going forward.”
A sportsbook could open at Wrigley Field, according to ESPN’s sources.
The Chicago Cubs have considered opening a sportsbook at Wrigley Field and at locations just outside of the Friendly Confines, multiple sources familiar with the team’s thinking told ESPN.
Betting windows, automated kiosks and even a full-blown sportsbook venue inside the stadium are among the options that have been considered by the Cubs and other Chicago professional franchises, as Illinois prepares to put it new sports gambling law into effect.
The Cubs declined to comment, and there are no official plans, only preliminary discussions at this point. Who would run the sportsbook and which parties would receive a cut of the action is unknown.
“Pen hasn’t hit paper yet,” a source familiar with the team’s thinking told ESPN.
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