Nets, Pelicans among favorites in NBA play-in games

The New Orleans Pelicans and Brooklyn Nets are oddsmakers' biggest favorites to win their opening games in the NBA play-in tournament this week. Basketball bettors like them the most, too.

The Nets, the Eastern Conference's No. 7 seed, are 8.5-point favorites (-400 moneyline) at both BetMGM and DraftKings to beat the No. 8 Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night at home.

Per DraftKings, the Nets were seeing 93 percent of t