OK, that was an extraordinary NBA trade deadline, especially for fans of the Nets. Yes, both of them.

All kidding aside, the deals that sent Kyrie Irving to Dallas and Kevin Durant to Phoenix have gutted Brooklyn’s championship hopes. That’s after the opened the season as the 먹튀검증사이트 favorite to come out of the East. The plummet has been stunning, with the Nets dropping from +1800 at midday Wednesday to +8000 by daybreak Thursday after the Durant deal went down at 1 a.m. EST.

Durant’s new team, the Phoenix Suns, are now the +425 second choice to win the championship at DraftKings. They are behind the Boston Celtics (+350), who lost Jaylen Brown to a facial fracture last night against the Philadelphia 76ers.

Third is the Milwaukee Bucks at +700, as they get ready to play the Los Angeles Lakers in their first game since trading Russell Westbrook. Fourth is the Denver Nuggets, who go into Thursday night’s game against Orlando with a 38-17 record that is the second-best in the league. And they just added Thomas Bryant from the Lakers, giving them a very solid backup behind Nikola Jokic.

And you know what? There are at least a half-dozen teams with longer odds sitting below that top foursome, and that is going to present a value betting option to everyone in the 33 states (plus the District of Columbia) with legalized sports gambling, as everyone tries to figure out who will be the last team standing in June.

But it could be these guys, who you may recall are the defending champs. Yes, they are without Steph Curry for a while. And they just dealt James Wiseman for five second-round picks, which is not what you ultimately want when you draft someone No. 2 overall. Still, the Dubs showed us last year that they can turn it on when it counts, and they reacquired ace defender Gary Payton II from Portland for five second-round picks.