{"id":27674,"date":"2013-02-08T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27674"},"modified":"2013-02-08T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:47:30","slug":"pro-basketball-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-houston-rockets-27674\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Picks: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Houston Rockets
\nFriday, 2\/8\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSH
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 211.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 210.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Portland had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 105-99 defeat to the Dallas Mavericks as 5.5-point road underdogs Wednesday, while going OVER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 \u201cI think we definitely had a chance to win,\u201d commented Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who finished with 27 points and 10 rebounds.\u00a0 He leads the team in averaging 20.7 points per game during the course of the 2012-13 NBA season.\u00a0 Portland is 4-3 ATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points this season, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers haven\u2019t won three games in a row against the Rockets since 2003, while they\u2019ve failed to win back-to-back games in Houston since a year prior to that.\u00a0 Portland has 11 wins this season when trailing at halftime, which is the most such wins in the NBA this year.\u00a0 Aldridge is averaging 28.0 points and 8.5 rebounds against tonight\u2019s foe this season.<\/p>\n

Houston suffered a 114-108 setback to the Miami Heat as 7.5-point road underdogs last time out, while going OVER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe had a tough run scoring the basketball,\u201d commented Rockets guard James Harden.\u00a0 He leads the team in averaging 25.8 points per game, which has been helped along by knocking down 431 of 504 free-throw attempts this year.\u00a0 Houston is 19-8 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 5-1 in that situation this year.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 17-8 overall at the Toyota Center, including a 7-7 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Houston has had all five of its starters reach double figures in scoring in three of its last four games.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks second in the NBA in scoring 105.8 points per game, which is its highest offensive output since the 1990-91 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 36-17-1 in the Trail Blazers last 54 games after allowing 100 points or more in their previous game.<\/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":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Houston Rockets Friday, 2\/8\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSH Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 211.5 Current Total:\u00a0 210.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Portland had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 105-99 defeat to the Dallas Mavericks as 5.5-point […]<\/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":[831,3595,3303,18,830,6619,3693],"class_list":["post-27674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-houston-rockets","tag-james-harden","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-toyota-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674","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=27674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27675,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions\/27675"}],"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=27674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}