“I think he's got a big shot to win MVP,' DraftKings' operations director says of Knicks forward.
“I think he's got a big shot to win MVP," DraftKings' operations director says of Knicks forward. Photo By - Reuters Connect. New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby makes a game-winning tip shot during Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals in the final second of the fourth quarter at Madison Square Garden.
Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby has made extraordinary progress in NBA Finals MVP odds, pushing into second place behind his teammate, Jalen Brunson. Current odds suggest he has a 32.3% chance of winning the award. Brunson opened the series second in Finals MVP odds behind San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama.
Brunson quickly climbed into the lead after the Knicks took a 2-0 series lead and remains on top of the board with his team up 3-1. Anunoby, formerly an afterthought in the conversation, has closed from around +5,000 to his current line of +210. Using the implied probability of his odds, Anunoby has a 32.3% chance of winning the award, while Brunson still has a 53.5% chance.
The 28-year-old Anunoby put up 33 points in Game 4, which ended in a Finals-record 29-point comeback for the Knicks. He also blocked De’Aaron Fox’s shot with less than 15 seconds remaining, and then scored the game-winning bucket by tipping in a missed three from Brunson.
“He's been clutch. He's the guy that's actually brought back from being down,” DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello said.
“I think he's got a big shot to win MVP. I really do. We had him at 4-to-1 after the game the other night. Now he's down to +210, so they're loving him right now to win the MVP.
” Anunoby’s raw stats aren’t as impressive as Brunson’s . However, he’s played excellent defense, produced clutch moments, and shot the ball incredibly efficiently, making 58% of his field goals and 55.6% of his three-pointers. On Friday, he boldly declared that “everyone knows” the Spurs are going to win the Finals.
That would require them to become the second team to recover from a 3-1 deficit in the championship round, with the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers being the only team to have accomplished that feat. Bringing the Spurs back would almost assuredly guarantee that Wembanyama would win Finals MVP. Nobody on his team is shorter than +25,000 in odds, that player being Stephon Castle. Knicks big man Karl-Anthony Towns sits between Wembanyama and Castle in odds at +4,000.
He looked like the best player on his team in Games 1 and 2, although he was a relative no-show in Games 3 and 4. DraftKings reported that Game 4 of the Finals was the sportsbook’s most-bet game in its history. Game 5 will see the series return to San Antonio, where the Knicks won the first two games of the series as underdogs.
Despite those results, and the Spurs trailing in the series 3-1, DraftKings has the home team as a 5.5-point favorite. That line rests between where it did in Games 1 and 2, for which they were 4.5- and 6.5-point favorites. At DraftKings, 73% of bets and 68% of the handle in the spread market are backing the Knicks.
Meanwhile, 59% of tickets and 82% of the money is also on the Knicks in the moneyline market, currently priced at -192 for the Spurs and +160 for the Knicks. Grant jumped into the sports betting industry as soon as he graduated from Virginia Tech in 2021. His fingerprints can be found all over the sports betting ecosystem, including his constant delivery of breaking industry news.
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