{"id":27573,"date":"2013-02-01T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27573"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:41:48","slug":"nba-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-utah-jazz-27573\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Utah Jazz
\nFriday, 2\/1\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Utah -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Utah -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 195.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 195.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers are led by All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge on the offensive end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland has won three of its last four games, including a 106-104 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as three-point home favorites last time out, while going OVER the total for the second time in three contests.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have been led by the recent play of All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who is averaging 25.0 points and 12.0 rebounds in his last two contests.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a go-to guy,\u201d commented Blazers forward Nicolas Batum.\u00a0 Portland is 7-17 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers will be playing a back-to-back series against the Jazz, as these two teams will meet up in the Pacific Northwest Saturday night.\u00a0 Portland dropped all four meetings in last year\u2019s series, but the average margin of defeat in Utah was only three points.\u00a0 Aldridge averaged 26.0 points and 7.0 rebounds in playing in just two of the meetings.\u00a0 The team\u2019s starting five players lead the NBA in scoring 80.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Utah has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, as it comes off a 104-99 victory over the New Orleans Hornets as eight-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the second time in three contests.\u00a0 The Jazz are 16-5 overall at EnergySolutions Arena, including a 10-5 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Utah is 17-6 ATS at home when the total is between 195 and 199.5, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are averaging 101.2 points per game at home, which could provide them a great opportunity to climb over the century mark in this spot, considering the Trail Blazers allow 101.3 points per game on the road.\u00a0 Utah has been getting tremendous production out of forward Paul Millsap, who is scoring 20.7 points and grabbing 9.7 rebounds in the team\u2019s last three victories.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 5-1 in the Trail Blazers last six games on two days rest.<\/p>\n

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Portland Trail Blazers at Utah Jazz Friday, 2\/1\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Utah -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Utah -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 195.5 Current Total:\u00a0 195.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Portland has won three of its last four games, including a 106-104 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as three-point home favorites last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3652,3303,3784,830,838,3693],"class_list":["post-27573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-energysolutions-arena","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-paul-millsap","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-utah-jazz","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573","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=27573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27574,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573\/revisions\/27574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}