{"id":27265,"date":"2013-01-13T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27265"},"modified":"2013-01-13T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:30:10","slug":"nba-betting-odds-and-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-odds-and-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-portland-trail-blazers-27265\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Odds and Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers
\nSunday, 1\/13\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 199
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 200.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are the highest-scoring team in the NBA entering Sunday’s action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 116-101 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as six-point road favorites, while going UNDER the total for the fourth time in that span.\u00a0 The Thunder will be aiming to score 100 or more points in this Western Conference matchup, considering they\u2019ve compiled a perfect 23-0 mark this year when doing so.\u00a0 The squad is led by forward Kevin Durant on the offensive end, averaging 28.5 points per game, while point guard Russell Westbrook has averaged 30 points in the team\u2019s four-game win streak in this series.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 4-0 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 6 points this season, something to consider when making your pro basketball picks Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are 10-5 overall when playing away from Chesapeake Energy Arena, including a 4-2 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Oklahoma City ranks first in the NBA in scoring 105.7 points per game, which has allowed the club to outscore its opponents by an average of 9.2 points per game.\u00a0 Durant and Westbrook are combining to average 50.4 points per game\u2014making them the highest-scoring duo in the league.<\/p>\n

Portland had its four-game win streak snapped in a disappointing 103-97 defeat to the Golden State Warriors as eight-point road underdogs Friday, which was expected by many after picking up a 92-90 home win over the defending NBA champion Miami Heat the night before.\u00a0 \u201cWe had a lot of shots at the rim and missed some of those opportunities,\u201d stated Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts.\u00a0 Rookie point guard Damian Lillard managed to score a career-high 37 points in the losing effort.\u00a0 Portland is 2-0 ATS as a home underdog of 3.5 to 6 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers were handed a 106-92 loss in their first meeting with the Thunder as 8.5-point road underdogs on Nov. 2, while going UNDER the posted total of 204.5.\u00a0 Portland owns a nine-game home winning streak, as it has allowed opponents to score just 92.1 points per game during that stretch.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, with the UNDER going 5-2 in the Thunder\u2019s last seven road games.<\/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":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers Sunday, 1\/13\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 199 Current Total:\u00a0 200.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 116-101 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[5930,1193,18,399,830,3693],"class_list":["post-27265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-damian-lillard","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27265","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=27265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27267,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27265\/revisions\/27267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}