{"id":20963,"date":"2012-01-10T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20963"},"modified":"2012-01-10T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:44:33","slug":"nba-free-picks-los-angeles-clippers-vs-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-free-picks-los-angeles-clippers-vs-portland-trail-blazers-20963\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Free Picks: Los Angeles Clippers vs. Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Portland Trail Blazers
\nTuesday, 1\/10\/12, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSPT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 194
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers will look to get Wesley Matthews the basketball Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles ended its four-game homestand with a 3-1 record and will now play just a single road game before returning to the Staples Center to take on the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Clippers have won three games in a row and limited the Milwaukee Bucks to 36.3 percent shooting in a 92-86 victory as 10-point home favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 Defense has been the name of the game during the club\u2019s streak, holding all three opponents under 90 points.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 5-15 ATS after three or more consecutive \u2018unders\u2019 over the past two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Clippers tallied a 93-88 win over the Trail Blazers in their first meeting this year as three-point home favorites on Jan. 1.\u00a0 Los Angeles power forward Blake Griffin is currently one of just two players in the NBA averaging over 24.0 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, with the other being Minnesota\u2019s Kevin Love.\u00a0 Newly acquired point guard Chris Paul is averaging 15.2 points and 9.3 assists per game, but he scored a season-low nine last time out.\u00a0 \u201cI never go into a game saying I\u2019m going to get 15 or 20 points,\u201d he stated after the game.<\/p>\n

Portland will be looking for revenge against tonight\u2019s opponent after tallying a perfect 3-0 record in the season series a year ago.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have defeated the Clippers in five straight inside the Rose Garden.\u00a0 \u201cI think it\u2019s a game we feel we gave away,\u201d stated Trail Blazers forward Gerald Wallace about the loss in Los Angeles.\u00a0 The 36 points scored by the team in the fourth quarter in that contest is the highest total recorded in a single quarter by Portland this season.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus seasons, the franchise is 8-16 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers outscored the Clippers by an average margin of 12.3 points in the three games a year ago, while holding a 135-123 advantage on the glass.\u00a0 Wesley Matthews is the player to watch on the offensive end, averaging 19.3 points in three games versus the Clippers during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Portland is one of three teams in the Western Conference to have six players average double-figures in scoring.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Trail Blazers due to the home team covering six of the last seven meetings, while the Clippers are 7-15 ATS as a road underdog.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday, 1\/10\/12, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSPT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 194 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles ended its four-game homestand with a 3-1 record and will now play just a single road game before returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,837,1371,18,830,3914,4088,3693],"class_list":["post-20963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-chris-paul","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rose-garden","tag-wesley-matthews","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20964,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963\/revisions\/20964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}