San Antonio Spurs

A unit on the Spurs to win in every priced game of 2025-26 made 20.32 units, the best return in the NBA. Most of it came when the Spurs were underdogs: 13 wins, 6 losses, 17.78 units.

The moneyline the league could not match

San Antonio went 62-20, a record only the Oklahoma City Thunder bettered. Eighty-one of the 82 games carried a moneyline; the one that did not was a 115-102 win at the Portland Trail Blazers on 26 November, with a spread of +1.5 and no posted price. Backing the Spurs in the other 81 made 20.32 units. The Denver Nuggets were next at 12.00.

December built most of it: 11-3 and 13.21 units, with two wins over the Thunder as underdogs, 111-109 at a neutral site on 13 December at +425 and 117-102 in Oklahoma City on 25 December at +280.

When they took points

The Spurs were underdogs 19 times. They won 13, covered 14, 73.7%, and the 18 priced games made 17.78 units, the most of any team as underdogs. Only the Detroit Pistons covered more often in the role. As favorites they went 49-14, covered 34 of 63 and made 2.54 units. January was the only month the moneyline lost, 2.90 units on an 8-7 run, with a 104-95 home loss to the New Orleans Pelicans at -535 on 25 January.

Against the spread

Forty-eight covers in 82, 58.5%; only the Charlotte Hornets and Boston Celtics covered more often. They covered 23 of 40 at home, 24 of 41 away and the one neutral-site game. October was 5-0 with five covers; February was 11-0 with nine. They scored 119.83 points a game, behind only the Nuggets and the Miami Heat.

The Thunder, five times

Against Oklahoma City the Spurs won four of five, covered four and made 8.19 units. The Dallas Mavericks lost all four and the Spurs covered all four. Of the teams met four times, only Denver beat them more often than not: 1-3, one Spurs cover.

The total

Spurs games went under 47 times and over 35, the fourth-highest under rate in the league.

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