Dallas Mavericks Odds | Game Lines, Props And NBA Playoff Odds
The Dallas Mavericks quickly pivoted from a trip to the NBA Finals to being a rebuilding team over the past 18 months. Trading away Luka Doncic changed everything, and it's all about building around Cooper Flagg now.
Despite not having much control of their draft picks in the immediate future beyond this current season, Dallas is one of the most promising franchises in the NBA, given Flagg is a generational talent. As long as he continues improving, the Mavericks will have a very bright future.
See more Mavs odds below, including game lines, player props, futures, and more from the best NBA betting sites.
Mavericks Odds Today
Want to bet on the Mavericks' next game? Below, we have every game for today's NBA slate and the odds of those contests. So, whether it's Dallas that you want to bet on, or any other team around the league, this is everything you need to know.
Mavericks NBA Championship Odds
The Mavericks have no interest in being competitive this season, nor should they. This is their last chance to control their own draft pick and put another cornerstone piece next to Cooper Flagg.
- Current Championship Odds: +500000 (via FanDuel)
As such, Dallas' championship odds aren't all that surprising. They won't win it this season, nor will the Mavs even make the playoffs.
Mavericks Southwest Division Odds
The Mavericks obviously won't win the Southwest Division this season with both the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets in the mix, but this could be one of the most competitive divisions in the NBA in future seasons.
| Team | Odds |
| San Antonio Spurs | Won Division |
| Houston Rockets | No Longer Available |
| New Orleans Pelicans | No Longer Available |
| Dallas Mavericks | No Longer Available |
| Memphis Grizzlies | No Longer Available |
How to Bet on the Mavs
There are a multitude of ways to place bets on the Mavericks throughout the NBA regular season and postseason -- point spread, moneyline, over under, futures, props, live, betting, parlays and teasers are just some of the wagers available through top legal, regulated sportsbooks.
Point spread wagers involve placing a bet on the margin of victory or defeat a team will produce in a certain game. For example, say the Mavericks are favored by 3 points in a matchup against the Utah Jazz, denoted as “-3” on a sportsbook’s betting market. Bettors wagering the Mavericks -3 will cash their tickets if Dallas beats Utah by at least four points. If the Mavs win by exactly 3, they’ll receive back the amount they originally staked, while if they win by less than 3 or lose outright, the bettor will lose the amount they originally staked.
Moneyline wagers involve placing a bet on a team to win a game outright. Using the same Mavericks-Jazz example, say Dallas is a -130 favorite. That means bettors placing a bet on a Mavericks victory will win $1 for every $1.30 they wagered if a win does indeed come to pass. If Dallas loses, the bettor will lose the amount they originally staked.
An over-under wager involves betting whether a game, quarter, half, etc. will end over or under a certain point total for either both or one of the teams in a game. For example, say the projected total for a hypothetical Jazz-Mavericks game is 228 points. Bettors placing a wager on the Over will cash their tickets if the game ends with a combined score of 229 points or more, and they’ll lose the amount staked if ends with 227 points or less. The game ending exactly with 228 points would result in the bettor getting the original amount staked in return but no actual winnings.
Futures wagers involve placing a bet on an outcome that won’t unfold until a later date, such as the end of a season. An example of a futures wager involving the Mavericks would have been a bet prior to the start of the season on whether they’d win at least 45 games. Bettors who would have placed that wager would have lost the amount they originally staked since Dallas finished well below that mark.
Other ways to bet on the Mavericks include prop bets (i.e. whether a player or the team itself will exceed or fall below a certain statistical benchmark), live betting (wagers placed as a game is ongoing and based on certain in-game events), parlays (i.e. placing a bet on the Mavericks winning and Doncic dishing out over a certain number of assists, or a bet on both the Mavericks and another team winning on the same night) and teasers (lowering the point spread the Mavericks are favored by against a certain opponent and betting another team by adding the same number of points to the spread of their game).
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Mavs Franchise History
The Mavericks’ inaugural season was the 1980-81 campaign, one they finished with a 15-67 record. Dick Motta served as the team’s first head coach and remained in the position until 1987. Dallas improved its win total each season under Motta and qualified for the playoffs in each of his last four seasons.
The Mavericks made the postseason in two of the first three seasons after Motta was replaced by John Macleod, but they’d then suffer a playoff drought until the 2000-01 season. However, that would begin a streak of postseason appearances that lasted through the 2015-16 campaign and included two NBA Finals appearances against the Miami Heat, the latter (after the 2010-11 season) culminating in an NBA title.
Dirk Nowitzki, who played for Dallas from the 1998-1999 to the 2018-19 seasons, is the Mavericks’ career scoring leader with 31,560 points. Doncic, who began his NBA career at age 19, already has accumulated 11,470 points heading into his seventh season.