NBA Finals Betting Props: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors Odds

The Golden State Warriors in seven games and Stephen Curry as NBA Finals MVP are two of the favorites on betting props released by sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark this week for the championship series between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

That best-of-seven Cavaliers vs. Warriors betting matchup will get underway Thursday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, with Golden State the 5.5-point home favorite for the contest.

And the Warriors are also the overall favorite on the series prices at the sportsbooks for the NBA Finals at 10-19, which makes it no surprise their top player leads the way on the NBA Finals MVP award odds heading into the set.

Sharpshooting Curry is the 4-7 favorite on the NBA Finals MVP prop lines. That puts him ahead of the Cavaliers' LeBron James, who already has a pair of NBA Finals MVP awards on his resume. James sits at 17-10 on that prop.

The MVP lines then immediately get much longer, with Cleveland's Kyrie Irving and Golden State's Klay Thompson both at 12-1 and Golden State's Draymond Green at 14-1. J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson of the Cavaliers then join Harrison Barnes of the Warriors with 50-1 MVP odds.

Elsewhere on the NBA Finals prop bets at the sportsbooks, the Warriors are listed at 13-5 to win the championship in seven games and then at 4-1 for six games, 7-2 for five games and 8-1 for four games.

Golden State got past the New Orleans Pelicans in four games in the first round, then needed six games to knock out the Memphis Grizzlies in the second round. The Warriors beat the Houston Rockets in a five-game series in the Western Conference Finals.

The Cavaliers are sitting at 6-1 odds to win the NBA Finals in seven games this spring, with 5-1 odds for six games, 12-1 odds for five games and 18-1 odds for four games.

Cleveland has swept two series so far in the postseason, needing just four games to bounce both the Boston Celtics in the first round and the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cavaliers played a six-game series against the Chicago Bulls in the second round.