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Sports Illustrated
By Chris Herring As we advance to the conference finals, we have a rarity: There isn’t an odds-on favorite to win the NBA championship. The Warriors hold the best odds of the four remaining teams, perhaps because their track record of recent success with this core is so much more extensive than that of the other clubs. But even with that in mind, Golden State has its flaws—certainly enough to where I think there’s a good chance Luka Dončić and the Mavericks continue to shake things up by winning the Western Conference. So I’ll lay out my five reasons why I think Dallas makes it out of the West…