This NBA season, the Dallas Mavericks have come out fighting, setting themselves as a key player in the league and making the top contenders stand up and pay attention. With a seemingly on-running cap at fourth place in the West during Luka Doncic’s NBA career, the question on everybody’s lips is, “Could the 2024/25 regular season be the break the Mavs need to win the title?”
Key information regarding Dallas Mavericks’ NBA odds
When predicting just how well the Mavs will do this year, NBA odds will be heavily reliant on past performance and take stats from opening games. Performance in the last season is certainly making things interesting; opening with poor health and talent issues, things weren’t looking good, but the Mavs blew away the second half of the season with a new roster that led them all the way to the NBA Finals. This outstanding turnaround has reinvigorated both the team and fans, who are hoping to maintain this energy and secure a fist-time top-three seed in the Western Conference at the very least – and a championship top spot for those who dare to dream.
Using the latest news combined with stats from their five-year track record, we can see that building the right team around Dončić is a recipe that could spell success this year. Earlier win totals and win percentages show that the trajectory of a 57-60% win rate (47 to 49 wins) for regular season games kept all eyes on the team, and this grew into a 61-63% range (50 to 52 wins) in the latter two years, cementing their favor with basketball lovers worldwide. From this, NBA odds can safely assume that a 50 game win season is achievable and is setting the benchmark for bookmakers, but is a 57-70 win total, the projected number for the Mavs to win the West, possible?
Top performance moments for the Dallas Mavericks now and then
2011 is a year held dear in Dallas Mavericks’ history where the team took on one of Miami’s strongest casts in recent years (including LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh) to win the NBA Series. While their championship stats looked fantastic, they have failed to reach the top spot since, as year-on-year points for teams across the basketball landscape have been climbing. For 2024/25, adding Klay Thompson based on his outstanding 13-year run with the Golden State Warriors and welcoming back guard Spencer Dinwiddie to the roster is making for some exciting NBA odds predictions and matches that are keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. Of course, Luka Dončić is the team’s secret weapon, and their current performance is a standing testament to this.
For example, in the latest match against the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night, the Dallas Mavericks slammed the competition with an outstanding shootout victory of 143-133. Luka Dončić dominated the game after concerns following an injury-ridden couple of months, bringing home 45 points, 11 rebounds, and 13 assists. By the end of the third quarter, he had a 40-point triple-double, showing that peak performance is going to be key in maintaining season energy.
Taking the overall performance of the game into consideration, both the Dallas Mavericks and the Golden State Warriors performed a high-octane showcase of offensive mastery, with enough back and forward shots to maintain excitement and game anticipation from start to finish, ending with a free throw clincher down the stretch. Taking this into account, the Mavs’ strengths lay in staying calm and collected and keeping pace, with star players hitting in-match high notes to pull off victory.
Can the Dallas Mavericks match up to the season’s best?
There were a whopping eight teams entering the 2024/25 NBA season with championship odds hitting around 15-to-1 and higher, and with this list comprising seven of last season’s 15 All-NBA teams, it’s no surprise. Of course, the Boston Celtics won last season, but the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder are hot on their heels for the current title spot (as of mid-December). With standings between the top teams fluctuating almost match by match and player performance at an all-time high, sleeper teams like the Denver Nuggets and the Mavs are playing blinding games that could topple current predictions. It really could be anyone’s title this year.
The Mavs definitely have a shot at winning, with the team’s most balanced roster in a decade, it may just be their versatility that takes them to the top. NBA odds are looking good ,and they have been noted as one of the best teams in the league game-on-game in the last several weeks. The good news is that even when Luka Dončić has been out for injury, the team’s overall performance has still been consistent.
