Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers: Game 6 Odds, Betting Stats

Stephen Curry has picked the perfect time to enter the NBA Finals MVP conversation, as his Golden State Warriors are within one victory of capturing their first league championship since 1975.

The Warriors are 4.5-point road favorites at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark for Tuesday night's Game 6 against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Curry scored a series-high 37 points in Game 5 Sunday to outduel Cleveland’s LeBron James and his second triple-double of the series (40 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists). Golden State won 104-91 and covered the spread as a 9.5-point home favorite.

James has done everything he possibly can to keep the Cavaliers contending for the NBA title, averaging 36.6 points, 12.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists through the first five games en route to possibly becoming the first player from a losing team to win NBA Finals MVP since Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1969.

Cleveland has been an underdog in every game of the betting matchup so far, and extending the series to a seventh game at Oakland’s Oracle Arena on Friday would be an accomplishment in itself.

However, Curry has started to heat up from the outside the past three games, connecting on 18 of 33 shots from three (55 percent), including going 7-of-13 in both Games 3 and 5. He is now averaging 26.2 points per game in the NBA Finals and 28.7 since a dismal Game 3 performance in which he scored just 19 points on 5-of-23 shooting and missed on 13 of 15 three-point attempts.

The Warriors as a team have also really benefited from the smaller lineup employed by head coach Steve Kerr in the last two games, with guard Andre Iguodala replacing center Andrew Bogut, who has totaled only three minutes on the court during that stretch with no points and one rebound.

Iguodala has responded by playing solid defense on James while averaging 18 points and eight rebounds in those two games.

Golden State covered the spread in winning both Games 4 and 5 after failing to beat the number in Games 2 and 3. Meanwhile, Cleveland is just 4-5 against the spread at Quicken Loans Arena despite going 7-2 straight up in nine games there this postseason, according to the Odds Shark NBA Database.

The under was 3-0-1 in the previous four games of the series for totals bettors and needed overtime to go over in Game 1. It fell right on the number of 195 in Game 5.