Let's look at every West team one by one and try to figure out where they stand compared to their Las Vegas win totals.

The Mavericks’ prized No. 1 pick likely won this award before even playing in an actual NBA game. NBA talent evaluators pegged Flagg as this year’s best rookie because of his positional versatility as a scorer and defender, his adaptability to various roles and his disciplined work habits.

In the nightcap on NBC, the Warriors will visit the Lakers in Los Angeles. The league completely eschewed the Eastern Conference on its first showcase night in four months, indicating it understands something many fans have felt for some time now: The West is the far better conference.

According to John Hollinger of The Athletic, no player in NBA history has ever been a unanimous winner of the Defensive Player of the Year Award. With all due respect to Mobley, Rudy Gobert, Draymond Green and the league’s other elite stalwarts, the only obstacle in Wembanyama’s way here is the 65-game minimum.

So let's take a look at these Eastern Conference win total lines and try to figure out where each team lands heading into the season. We will be using lines from DraftKings Sportsbook. Big news, NBA fans.

The 2025-26 NBA season will officially commence on Tuesday night, and the arrival of the new league year brings a new set of betting lines for some important wagers.

The Christmas Day slate, a standard highlight of the annual NBA schedule, is as follows: (All games are on ESPN/ABC, and all times are Eastern) And of course, the season opens Oct. 21 on NBC and Peacock. The Rockets visit the defending champion Thunder at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Warriors visiting the Lakers at 10 p.m.