{"id":28545,"date":"2013-04-13T20:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28545"},"modified":"2013-04-13T20:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T01:13:15","slug":"nba-expert-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-denver-nuggets-28545\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Denver Nuggets
\nSunday, 4\/14\/13, 5:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -14
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -14
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 208.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 208.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers are 0-5-1 ATS in April<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland has dropped 10 consecutive games, including a 106-80 setback to the Oklahoma City Thunder last Friday night, while going UNDER the posted total of 206.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have allowed an average of 108.1 points on 51.7 percent shooting over their current skid.\u00a0 \u201cWe didn\u2019t create shots and were loss with the turnovers,\u201d commented Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts.\u00a0 Rookie point guard Damian Lillard continues to impress\u2014ranking second on the team in scoring 19.0 points per game.\u00a0 Portland is 0-5-1 ATS in April, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread Sunday.<\/p>\n

Six of the last seven meetings between the Trail Blazers and Nuggets have been decided by fewer than 10 points, including the last four.\u00a0 Portland hasn\u2019t lost a season series to Denver since the 2009-10 campaign.\u00a0 The franchise has lost its last eight trips to the Mile High City, while at least one team has scored 100-plus points in the last seven meetings.\u00a0 Power forward Lamarcus Aldridge has averaged 25.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in two games versus the Nuggets during the 2012-13 NBA campaign.<\/p>\n

Denver had its five-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 108-105 defeat to the Dallas Mavericks as three-point road favorites, while going OVER the posted total of 209.\u00a0 The Nuggets have won a franchise-record 21 straight home games by an average of 12.2 points, as they\u2019ll look to improve upon their dominating 36-3 mark inside this building.\u00a0 Denver is 6-4 ATS as home favorites of 12.5 to 15 points the last two-plus seasons, while the UNDER is 6-3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have won 26 of their last 38 games overall against the Trail Blazers, which is important to consider when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Denver currently sits at 54-25 on the season, tying its all-time wins mark in a single season.\u00a0 Despite numerous injuries to its roster down the stretch, the squad has shown some resiliency, with Wilson Chandler and Corey Brewer each averaging over 20 points in their last three games.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to the favorite being 13-4-1 ATS in the last 18 meetings in this series.<\/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 Denver Nuggets Sunday, 4\/14\/13, 5:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -14 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -14 Opening Total:\u00a0 208.5 Current Total:\u00a0 208.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Portland has dropped 10 consecutive games, including a 106-80 setback to the Oklahoma City Thunder last Friday night, while going UNDER the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[526,3303,18,3637,830,3693],"class_list":["post-28545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-pepsi-center","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545","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=28545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}