{"id":32382,"date":"2014-01-07T07:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32382"},"modified":"2014-01-07T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:38:27","slug":"nba-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-portland-trail-blazers-vs-sacramento-kings-32382\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings
\nTuesday, 1\/7\/14, 10:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 215
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 216
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers have won the first two meetings of their series against the Sacramento Kings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 101-99 defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers as 12.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 223.5.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have all five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward LaMarcus Aldridge leading the way at 23.3 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 He\u2019s coming off a 29-point performance last time out.\u00a0 Portland is 5-2 ATS in its last seven games following a SU loss.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 2-0 SU against the Kings during the 2013-14 campaign, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting odds.\u00a0 Aldridge and center Robin Lopez both recorded double-doubles in the second matchup in this series, while point guard Damian Lillard averaged 16.5 points and 9.0 assists against the Kings during the 2012-13 campaign.\u00a0 The franchise has compiled a 13-4 SU record on the road\u2014tied with the Spurs for the top mark in the league in that situation.<\/p>\n

Sacramento has dropped back-to-back games as a home favorite, including a 113-103 setback to the Charlotte Bobcats last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total for the seventh time in eight contests.\u00a0 The Kings have scored 100 or more points in 15 of their last 16 games, including the last nine contests.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the squad has allowed its last nine foes to go over the century mark.\u00a0 Sacramento is 3-10-1 ATS in its last 14 games following a double-digit loss at home.<\/p>\n

The Kings will need a big performance from center DeMarcus Cousins, who is leading the team in averaging 23.2 points and 11.4 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of only three players in the league averaging those types of numbers, with Aldridge being one of them.\u00a0 In the last 12 games, the trio of Cousins, Rudy Gay and Isaiah Thomas is averaging 64.9 points per game\u2014accounting for 63 percent of the team\u2019s offensive production.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Trail Blazers due to their 8-2 ATS mark in their last 10 road games against the Kings.<\/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 vs. Sacramento Kings Tuesday, 1\/7\/14, 10:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 215 Current Total:\u00a0 216 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Portland had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 101-99 defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers as 12.5-point home favorites […]<\/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":[5930,1912,3303,18,830,582],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-damian-lillard","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sacramento-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","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=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32388,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions\/32388"}],"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=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}