Portland at Los Angeles

The Portland Trailblazers have been bitten hard by the injury bug this season. Very often you see teams play harder to compensate, and that has been the case here for Portland who has won eight out of 10 despite the injury woes. So we get a top team with points on the road, because of the “injury perception” that has yet to show on the scoreboard. The Clippers continue to hold promise, but no results. The Clippers are just 2-6 at home vs. winning teams, and three of the last four beat them by a combined 53 points. They have stumbled as a home favorite to an 8-20-1 ATS mark in their last 29, and the wrong team is favored in this one. I’m going with Portland here.