LA Clippers Odds | Spreads, Totals, Props, NBA Playoffs
The LA Clippers have made drastic changes of late, shipping away James Harden and Ivica Zubac at the recent trade deadline. As such, it's fully Kawhi Leonard's team now, as the franchise starts to slowly pivot toward a focus on the future.
Not considered a contender in the NBA this season, LA is a large market capable of putting together a very competitive roster in future years, but the Clippers are stuck in the middle now. They're good enough to be in the middle of the pack, but not at the top or bottom, where teams prefer to be.
See more Clippers odds below, including game lines, player props, futures, and more from the best NBA betting sites.
Clippers Odds Today
Want to bet on the Clippers' next game? Below, we have every game for today's NBA slate and the odds of those contests. So, whether it's LA that you want to bet on, or any other team around the league, this is everything you need to know.
Clippers Championship Odds
Again, the Clippers are not considered a contender at this point and still have much work to do in order to get this roster back to the powers of the Western Conference. The future cornerstone pieces are starting to take shape, but it takes more than that to be a championship-level team.
- Current Championship Odds: +40000 (via FanDuel)
LA, especially since the franchise doesn't own its own draft pick this summer, is in a weird spot. Even if the Clippers landed the No. 1 pick as a catalyst for what appears to be an upcoming re-tool, it would go to the Thunder due to the Paul George trade from several years ago.
Clippers Pacific Division Odds
Check out the Clippers' Pacific Division odds below.
| Team | Odds |
| Los Angeles Lakers | Won Division |
| Phoenix Suns | No Longer Available |
| Golden State Warriors | No Longer Available |
| LA Clippers | No Longer Available |
| Sacramento Kings | No Longer Available |
How to Bet on the Clippers
Moneyline
Wagering on the moneyline is the simplest type of NBA bet, solely based on which team wins the game outright. See the example below involving a game between the LA Clippers and Dallas Mavericks.
Clippers -140
Mavericks +175
The negative number on the Clippers' moneyline (-140) indicates oddsmakers have them listed as favored to win. It would take a $140 wager to win $100 profit, plus the $140 originally posted for the bet. A $100 on the Hawks would net $175 in profit if they can pull off the upset.
Point Spread
Books will also set a point spread for NBA games, which considers the margin of victory rather than just the winner and loser. Take the point spreads below in a game between the Clippers and the Denver Nuggets:
Clippers +4.5 (-115)
Nuggets -4.5 (-115)
The Nuggets are favored by 4.5 points, indicated by the “-4.5.” They need to win by at least five points to cover the point spread and cash the bet. As underdogs, the Clippers can lose by up to four points or win the game for a bet on them to cash.
The (-115) odds listed next to each team’s point spread show the return on a correct bet in American Odds. Both teams have the same -115 odds so a $115 bet on the winning team pays the bettor $100, plus the $115 wagered. A $100 bet on the would earn the bettor $86.96 plus the initial wager if it hits.
Point Total (Over/Under)
A bet on the point total is determined by the combined number of points scored by both teams. Books will provide a set number to allow bettors to choose whether the final combined scores of each team will be higher or lower. For example, if the point total in a game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers is set at 235 points and ends with a final score of 121-110, a bet on the under would cash out.
Live Betting
Betting on games while they’re in-play is known as live betting, which can be a fruitful strategy for those who prepare ahead of time. Take a game that has the Clippers (-250 on the moneyline) as favorites in their matchup with the Golden State Warriors (+200 on the moneyline). A $100 bet on the Clippers before the game starts would only make a $40 profit. You also know that the Clippers often start slowly when they play at home and there’s a good chance the Warriors are able to keep things close early in the game. Using that info, you could hold on to your bet until the game is in motion to see if the odds on the Clippers moneyline shift in your favor.
If the Warriors come out firing and claim an early lead, oddsmakers will move the line to reflect the current score, increasing the value of a bet on the Clippers to win, upping your profits on a correctly (and well-timed) bet.
Live betting is also where “hedging” your bets can come into play, a tactic by bettors where they make one bet before the game starts and then an opposing bet while the game is live as a way to recoup their potential losses. Let’s say you bet on Los Angeles (+180 underdogs) to win a game against the Chicago Bulls (-200 favorites), but at halftime the Clippers are down by 10 points. The live odds for a moneyline bet on the Bulls now only pay you back one-third of your money, or -300. By giving up on the Clippers and betting on the Bulls moneyline at -300 during halftime, you’re hedging your initial bet on the Clippers in an attempt to recover some money from a seemingly lost cause.
Parlays and Teasers
Parlay and Teaser bets combine multiple different bets together for an increased payout as long as all of your selected bets are successful.
A parlay is slightly more straightforward than a teaser. For example, the Los Angeles Clippers moneyline (-140) against the Miami Heat seems like a good play, as well as the Cleveland Cavaliers (-200 on the moneyline) to defeat the Houston Rockets. You can parlay both of those outcomes together and increase the odds of your return to +157.
A teaser allows bettors to move multiple point spreads or totals in their preferred direction. Let’s say you like the Clippers (-4.5) in their matchup with the Sacramento Kings as much as you do the Minnesota Timberwolves (-5.5 favorites) to defeat the Utah Jazz. You can tease both lines by four points (most books offer anywhere from four-to-six point teases) to shift the lines to Los Angeles (-0.5) / Minnesota (-1.5). Now, both teams need to win by four fewer points than the original lines for your bet to cash.
Futures
Futures bets are placed on props in the longer-term future. Team win totals, award winners, and player performances are common future bets.
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Franchise History
Previously the Buffalo Braves and San Diego Clippers, the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1984, where they've been treated as the Lakers' "little brother" since their arrival. Still without an NBA Finals appearance on their resume, the Clippers sustained 30 years of awful basketball from 1976 through 2005, winning 40 or more games just three times during that span.
In 2006, Elton Brand led LA to the city's first Conference semifinals, losing to Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns in seven games (the Buffalo Braves made it to the Conference semis three times in the 1970s). One season later, the Clippers were back to their losing ways, failing to reach the postseason for five straight years until Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan joined Blake Griffin in LA to form the trio fondly known as "Lob City." Under head coach Doc Rivers, this high-flying version of the Clippers reeled off six straight playoff appearances. Despite two straight seasons with 55+ wins from 2014-15, Paul and company could never get past the Conference Semifinals and once the Warriors began their streak of NBA Finals runs in 2015, the Lob City era was steadily ending.
When Kawhi and Paul George teamed up under new owner Steve Ballmer in 2019, the Clippers immediately soared up the projections as one of the favorites to reach the NBA Finals, only to lose in the Bubble to the Nuggets in the second round. One year later, Kawhi would stay healthy just long enough to help the Clippers reach seven games in the conference semifinals against the Utah Jazz before partially tearing his right ACL. Paul George stepped up heroically in Game 7 to lead the Clippers to the franchise's first-ever Conference Finals and even pushed the Phoenix Suns to six games before running out of gas.
Since then, the core of that initial team has been depleted and the Clippers appear to be headed toward a major re-tooling.
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