Do you like rooting for the Charlotte Hornets? Do you like betting on long shots?
The gambling website www.bovada.lv set odds on 39 candidates to be the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2017-18 season. Not one, but two Hornets made that list of 39.
Point guard Kemba Walker was listed as a 150-to-1 shot, the eighth-highest odds among players listed. Center Dwight Howard, acquired from the Atlanta Hawks in the offseason, is listed as a 250-to-1 shot. Those are the highest odds listed, shared by five NBA players.
That Walker and Howard made this list at all is interesting.