{"id":31593,"date":"2013-12-02T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31593"},"modified":"2013-12-02T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:28:03","slug":"nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-portland-trail-blazers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-portland-trail-blazers-2-31593\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Indiana Pacers vs. Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Portland Trail Blazers
\nMonday, 12\/2\/13, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 188
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 192
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers are 6-0 SUATS as underdogs this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana is off to its best start in franchise history, as it improve to 16-1 on the year after picking up a 105-100 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers as 1.5-point road favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Pacers entered that affair with all five starters averaging double figures, with forward Paul George leading the charge at 23.6 points per game.\u00a0 Indiana is 9-3 SUATS as road favorites of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pacers have one of the best defenses in the NBA once again, as they\u2019ve limited teams to league lows of 86.5 points per game and 39 percent shooting, which is important to consider when making your pro basketball picks Monday night.\u00a0 Indiana came into Sunday\u2019s game outscoring opponents by 106 total points in the third quarter, but tonight\u2019s opponent holds an edge over foes when playing at home in that situation.<\/p>\n

Portland returns home after splitting a two-game road trip, which ended with a 114-108 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as 3.5-point favorites last night, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five affairs.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have won their last four home games against the Pacers, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Point guard Damian Lillard figures to have a huge game, considering his 58.1 percent shooting percentage in two career matchups with the Pacers is his highest versus any opponent.\u00a0 Portland is 6-0 SUATS as an underdog this season, with the OVER going 5-1 in those six opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers will play 19 back-to-backs during the 2013-14 campaign, as they look to improve upon their 9-0 record in that situation thus far.\u00a0 Lillard\u2019s 20 3-pointers through the team\u2019s first five games of the season were the most in franchise history in that time, while he ranks first on the team in assists and second in scoring.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Trail Blazers due to the home team being 4-0 ATS in the last four 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":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Portland Trail Blazers Monday, 12\/2\/13, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSNW Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 188 Current Total:\u00a0 192 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana is off to its best start in franchise history, as it improve to 16-1 on the year after picking up a […]<\/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":[5930,565,18,1918,830],"class_list":["post-31593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-damian-lillard","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-nba","tag-paul-george","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593","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=31593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31594,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions\/31594"}],"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=31593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}