Kentucky-Related Props/Futures: NBA Draft, Lakers Coach, UK Football Odds

Once March Madness and the three best weeks in sports gambling concluded, the Masters gave us one last weekend of betting fun before the NBA Playoffs and Major League Baseball crowd the sportsbooks moving forward. NBA and MLB betting are fine, but I spent the post-Masters morning combing through futures and prop bets to keep this spring gambling train rolling. While looking, I found four different categories that you, Big Blue Nation, may find interesting because they include Kentucky Wildcats on the board.

Related to basketball, John Calipari is a play for the Lakers head coach (although nobody really believes it, right?) and you can roll some dice on Shaedon Sharpe’s position in the NBA Draft. Then there are a couple of football futures for anyone riding high off Saturday’s spring game in Lexington.

Check some of these out, if nothing else but to gauge oddsmakers’ opinions of some Kentucky-related topics.

Next Lakers Head Coach

From Sportsline, these are the odds to replace Frank Vogel as head coach of the Lakers as of this morning.

David Fizdale +400
Sam Cassell +500
Quin Snyder +500
Kenny Atkinson +600
Steve Clifford +700
Mike Brown +800
Doc Rivers +1000
Mark Jackson +1200
Nick Nurse +1500
Mike D’Antoni +1800
Terry Stotts +2000
Bill Self +2500
Kurt Rambis +3000
John Calipari +3500
Juwan Howard +4000

NBA Draft Prop Bets

Over at Bovada, Shaedon Sharpe is a popular name among the NBA Draft odds. He and TyTy Washington are listed on the board as players to be selected first overall where Auburn’s Jabari Smith is the favorite (+110) followed by Chet Holmgren (+165) and Paolo Banchero (+250).

FIRST OVERALL PICK
Shaedon Sharpe +20000 (250/1)
TyTy Washington +45000 (450/1)

Sharpe also has two prop bets available: a head-to-head with Iowa’s Keegan Murray and an over/under on Sharpe’s place in the draft.

WHO WILL BE DRAFTED FIRST
Shaedon Sharpe -105
Keegan Murray -135

WILL SHAEDON SHARPE BE DRAFTED IN THE TOP 5
Yes +325
No -550

2022 Heisman Trophy Odds

Switching to football, from the trusted VegasInsider.com, Will Levis is one of many college football players with odds to win next season’s Heisman Trophy. Levis is +8000 with eight other SEC QBs ahead of him on the board.

Bryce Young (Alabama-QB) +200
C.J. Stroud (Ohio State-QB) +400
Caleb Williams (USC-QB) +900
Bijan Robinson (Texas-RB) +1500
D.J. Uiagalelei (Clemson-QB) +2000
Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss-QB) +3000
Spencer Rattler (South Carolina-QB) +3000
Trayvon Henderson (Ohio State-RB) +3000
Will Anderson, Jr. (Alabama-LB) +3000
Dillon Gabriel (Oklahoma-QB) +3000
Tyler Van Dyke (Miami, Fl.-QB) +3000
J.T. Daniels (Georgia-QB) +3000
Quinn Ewers (Texas-QB) +4000
Braelon Allen (Wisconsin-RB) +4000
Kedon Slovis (Pittsburgh-QB) +4000
Anthony Richardson (Florida-QB) +5000
Sam Hartman (Wake Forest-QB) +5000
Jaxson Smith-Njigba (Ohio State-WR) +5000
Tank Bigsby (Auburn-RB) +5000
Jarek Broussard (Michigan-RB) +5000
Brennan Armstrong (Virginia-QB) +5000
Malik Cunningham (Louisville-QB) +6000
Max Johnson (Texas A&M-QB) +6600
Jayden Daniels (LSU-QB) +7500
Casey Thompson (Nebraska-QB) +7500
Travis Dye (Oregon-RB) +7500
Bo Nix (Oregon-RB) +7500
Hendon Hooker (Tennessee-QB) +8000
Will Levis (Kentucky-QB) +8000
Phil Jurkovec (Boston College-QB) +8000
Will Rogers (Mississippi State-QB) +9000
Roydell Williams (Alabama-RB) +10000
Zach Charbonnet (UCLA-RB) +10000
Deuce Vaughn (Kansas State-RB) +10000
Trey Sanders (Alabama-RB) +10000
Myles Brennan (LSU-QB) +10000
Mohammed Ibrahim (Minnesota-RB) +10000
K.J. Jefferson (Arkansas-QB) +10000
Jake Haener (Fresno State-QB) +10000
Jack Miller (Ohio State-QB) +10000
Cameron Rising (Utah-QB) +10000
Cameron Ward (Washington-QB) +10000
Luke Altmyer (Mississippi State-QB) +10000
Grayson McCall (Coastal Carolina-QB) +10000
Blake Corum (Michigan-RB) +10000
Jordan Addison (Pittsburgh-WR) +10000
Taulia Tagovailoa (Maryland-QB) +12500

BCS National Championship Odds

Finally, over at MyBookie you can roll the dice on Kentucky Football’s shot at college football’s grand prize.

ODDS TO WIN BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Kentucky +13000

Go Cats.