Cooper Flag The 2025 NBA is motivating the sportsbook to take extreme measures during the draft.
Flag obstacles for the top pick in the draft reached -100,000 in several sportsbooks on Thursday morning, which means a bookie would have to take a risk of $ 1,000 to win a $ 1 on a Duke product. Dallas Maverrix Number 1 owns the rights of pick.
Victor WeambanyamaEarlier also climb to -00,000, in Fanduel, before San antonio spurs In 2023, he selected No. 1. Flag’s Auds Sportsbooks on Thursday, from -50,000 to ESPN Bet -10,000 to BTMGM. But in Fanduel, Hard Rock Bet and Caesar Sportsbook, the flag -100,000, which was only reserved for the largest favorite and often not seen in the American betting market.
A Fanduel trader told ESPN in an email, “The value of the flag to go to number 1 in total is a task of our expectations that it will be almost confident.” “While we all expect them to go to number 1, we want to ensure that customers who are betting on the draft have the opportunity to talk the most about the player.”
Flag attracted 95% of the funds on Fanduel’s No. 1 pick auditions, but only 10% of the total bets placed in the market on Thursday. Rutgars, Dylan Harper (200–1) attracted the bets almost four times more than the flag. There were bets on rutgars too Ace Bailey (200-1) and Beyor‘S VJ EdgeCombe (250–1) To be the number 1 pick, Sportsbook reported.
Neil Walsh, senior vice -president of the sportsbook for the hard rock bet, by the flag -100,000 obstacles “highly unusual” and “certainly handle our system.” Walsh said that some bets in the past which were lost in -100,000 obstacles, including NHL also included this season. Walsh remembered the middle of a bet through the hockey season Montreal Canadines -100,000 to remember the playoffs. Canadines, who descended for a slow start for the season, reduced the stretch to earn a place in the playoffs.
Walsh said in an email, “Even at -100,000, our players are still using it as an engagement opportunity with drafts, and between single and Parle legs, cooper flags are the most market for the draft tonight to be top -pic.” “And hey, a victorious condition is a winning condition – sometimes you get to see only one through the circle.”
Favorite on each top 10 pick [via ESPN BET; Thursday morning]
Number 1 – Cooper Flag -50,000
Number 2 – Dylan Harper -7,500
Number 3 – VJ Edgekomb -350
Number 4 – Con nukepel -180
Five number – Jeremiah fear +175
Number 6 – Ace Bailey +125
Number 7 – Khaman Maluch +200
Number 8 – Jeremiah fear +450
Number 9 – Khaman Maluch +260
Number 10 – Deeric queen +400