Victor Wembanyama’s season-ending damage is throwing the NBA Defensive Participant of the Yr race right into a tizzy.
Earlier than the Spurs’ second-year celebrity was shut down with a blood clot in his proper shoulder, the award was all however his.
BetMGM Sportsbook had Wembanyama, who will fall in need of the NBA’s 65-game award minimal with simply 46 video games performed, as an enormous -2000 favourite earlier than the information on Thursday.
Now, the award race is totally up within the air.
Grizzlies large man Jaren Jackson Jr, who gained it two years in the past, is now the favourite at –130.
As lately as Thursday morning, Jackson was +2500.
The Cavaliers’ Evan Mobley jumped to +110 from +3000 to change into the second-favorite on BetMGM’s odds board.
Wembanyama, who had been a heavy favourite since odds had been launched earlier than the season started final summer season, attracted an awesome quantity of betting consideration at BetMGM.
The French sensation garnered a 36.7 % of bets and 32.7 % of deal with on the sportsbook — each of which had been simply the best among the many subject.
The 21-year-old, 7-foot-3 heart confirmed flashes of why he was beforehand heralded as probably the greatest prospects in NBA historical past this season, averaging 24.3 factors and 11 rebounds per sport in 33.2 minutes.
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Earlier than happening, Wembanyama had a league-high 3.8 blocks per sport — almost 1.5 blocks greater than some other certified participant.
The 23-29 Spurs are presently the No. 12 seed within the Western Convention heading into the post-All-Star break stretch.
With the No. 10 draft lottery odds on Thursday morning, San Antonio seemingly will transfer up the draft board and fall additional out of the playoff image being 3.5 video games out of the play-in match.
