{"id":28131,"date":"2013-03-14T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28131"},"modified":"2013-03-14T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T21:01:14","slug":"nba-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-portland-trail-blazers-28131\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: New York Knicks vs. Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Portland Trail Blazers
\nThursday, 3\/14\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 196
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 193
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Knicks are 5-5 SU without Carmelo Anthony this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has dropped back-to-back games, including a 117-94 setback to the Denver Nuggets as 8.5-point road underdogs Wednesday night, while going OVER the posted total of 206.\u00a0 The Knicks will be playing without the services of leading scorer Carmelo Anthony, who left last night\u2019s game with a knee injury that\u2019s been bothering him recently.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going to go get it drained,\u201d commented Anthony.\u00a0 The team is 5-5 without him during the 2012-13 NBA season.\u00a0 New York is 17-7 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 Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 16-14 overall on the road this season, including a 4-7 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 New York has compiled a winning 7-5 record when playing the back end of a back-to-back situation.\u00a0 In the first meeting this year, the team suffered a 105-100 setback as 9.5-point home favorites on Jan. 1, which was surprising due to Anthony finishing with 45 points and seven rebounds in 41 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

Portland will try to snap a two-game losing streak, which includes a 102-97 defeat to the Memphis Grizzlies as 1.5-point home underdogs Tuesday night ,while going OVER the posted total of 186.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers are now 3.5 games behind the Los Angeles Lakers for the eighth and final playoff spot in the upcoming Western Conference playoffs.\u00a0 \u201cDefinitely that door is closing,\u201d stated Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge.\u00a0 He ranks 11th in the NBA in averaging 20.7 points per game, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers have won nine of their last 11 games versus the Knicks at the Rose Garden, while the winning team has scored at least 100 points in five straight meetings, and in eight of the last nine games between these teams.\u00a0 Portland hasn\u2019t swept a season series against New York since the 2008-09 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Knicks due to their 14-5-1 ATS mark on zero days rest, while the Trail Blazers are 2-5-1 ATS in the last eight meetings.<\/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":"

New York Knicks at Portland Trail Blazers Thursday, 3\/14\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 196 Current Total:\u00a0 193 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York has dropped back-to-back games, including a 117-94 setback to the Denver Nuggets as 8.5-point road underdogs Wednesday night, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,3303,18,115,830,3914],"class_list":["post-28131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rose-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131","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=28131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28132,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions\/28132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}