Enhanced Jimmy Butler acquisition Warriors’ title odds?

Disclosed six-time all-Star Jimmy Butler finally got a new home on Wednesday when his week’s long standoff with Miami Heat mercifully ended.

Butler, 35, was traded for the Golden State Warriors in a four -et team agreement that matches Butler’s defensive thinking, toughness, playmaking and changing scoring with the championship Tandem by Stephen Curry and Draymond Green when Warriors try to push the club’s titel window up.

Warriors, sitting on 25-25 and around the play-in the western conference, had to do something to shake up their aging core. Was Butler Deal the right move? It is a great risk and he has had his problems with a few teams but the Golden State of course felt the need to do something.

So as you can imagine adding a proven star and 2022-23 Eastern Conference Finals MVP had a positive effect on the team’s odds of winning the NBA final. Warriors were +6600 to win it all at Betmgm and moved to +4000 Following news about the Butler acquisition that pairs them with Houston Rockets on the odds committee. Warriors are still far from the co-favorite Boston Celtics (+225) and Oklahoma City Thunder (+225), but they are in the same neighborhood as Clippers (+3500), Mavericks (+3000), Grizzlies (+2800) and Bucks (+2800).

Warriors definitely improved in the eyes of Oddsmakers because of Butler’s talent, but the dream of being a legitimate championship threat may be that the fact that considering the powerful nature of the veteran wing is in the same closet with green.