{"id":32568,"date":"2014-01-16T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32568"},"modified":"2014-01-16T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T04:26:17","slug":"nba-predictions-portland-trail-blazers-vs-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-portland-trail-blazers-vs-san-antonio-spurs-32568\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Portland Trail Blazers vs. San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers vs. San Antonio Spurs
\nFriday, 1\/16\/14, 8:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 212.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 213.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers are dangerous road underdogs Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland has won three games in a row, including a 108-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers as 10.5-point home favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total of 211.5.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have all five probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward LaMarcus Aldridge leading the way at 23.8 points a contest, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA predictions.\u00a0 He is coming off a 32-point performance last time out.\u00a0 Portland is 7-1 SUATS as underdogs this season, with the OVER going 6-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 13-5 against the Spurs in regular season play since the beginning of the 2008-09 campaign, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Portland has compiled a 16-4 SU record in back-to-back situations thus far, with 10 of those wins coming on the road.\u00a0 Second-year point guard Damian Lillard is important to handicap in this affair, as he\u2019s averaged 27.3 points in four career games in this series.<\/p>\n

San Antonio is riding a six-game winning streak, as it comes off a 109-105 victory over the Utah Jazz as 13.5-point home favorites Wednesday, while going OVER the betting total of 199.5.\u00a0 The Spurs are 16-5 SU at home this season, including a 10-3 mark when taking on Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has five probable starters averaging in double figures, with point guard Tony Parker leading the way at 18.1 points a contest.\u00a0 San Antonio is 4-1 SU and 3-2 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points, with the UNDER going 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Spurs have one of the best benches in the league, as their reserves rank first in the NBA in averaging 45.2 points per game, while sitting behind just five teams in grabbing 16.3 rebounds a contest.\u00a0 Parker is shooting 57.1 percent over his last nine games, but he\u2019s been limited to 41.5 percent in his last seven matchups in this series.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Trail Blazers due to their 11-5 ATS mark in their last 16\u00a0 games 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 vs. San Antonio Spurs Friday, 1\/16\/14, 8:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 212.5 Current Total:\u00a0 213.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Portland has won three games in a row, including a 108-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers as 10.5-point home favorites Wednesday, […]<\/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":[4195,3303,18,830,141,1029,3693],"class_list":["post-32568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-att-center","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tony-parker","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32568","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=32568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32571,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32568\/revisions\/32571"}],"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=32568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}