Houston Rockets vs Portland Trail Blazers, 11:40 am
Blazers +4
I’m going to take Portland here, currently getting 4 points away at Houston. The Blazers do have several injury concerns heading into this one, which has made them undervalued.
Conversely, due to Houston’s good run of recent form, I think they’re a little overrated in the market. They’re hardly getting anything from their forwards and bigs, which means this one likely turns into a battle of the guards.
Even with Wall and Oladipo looking relatively good in their injury returns, Dame Lillard is definitely the best player on the floor here. I’d expect him to go off on a porous Rockets perimeter defense and at least keep this competitive. This should be close down the stretch, at which point the +4 becomes very valuable.