Indiana Fever vs Portland Fire Point Spread Picks

Indiana rolls into Portland on a four-game winning streak, six wins in its last seven, with Caitlin Clark playing some of the best basketball of her career and the Fever topping 100 points twice in that stretch. Own the class gap here: Indiana sits at 18-10 with a real shot at a high playoff seed, while Portland is 11-17. But this is the third stop on an extended Fever road trip, and even a team playing this well can leave something in the tank by the back half of one of those. Portland has held its own at home all season, 6-7 in its own building, a real number against a schedule that hasn't been light. Indiana's recent scoring binges have leaned on some of the league's softer defenses, Seattle chief among them, and Portland's home crowd gives this Fire roster more fight than what the Fever saw this week. Getting nearly nine points against a team that competes on its own floor is real value. Portland is the number to trust tonight.

Portland doesn't have long to shake off a bad, 86-66, home loss to Atlanta last night. The Fire should draw a huge crowd hosting Indiana and Caitlin Clark. The Fire have not looked like a typical expansion team as they are 5-4 and own two victories against the powerful Liberty. Indiana is 4-3. The Fever are not as good as 5-2 Atlanta. The Fever are off a physical, 90-88, road loss to Golden State two days ago. Clark is third in the WNBA in scoring at 22.5 points a game. Clark, though, has committed the most turnovers per game in the league at 5.2 and is shooting only 41% from the floor. Portland has the better defensive numbers. The Fever rank 11th defensively, allowing 87.6 points per game, and are 10th in defensive field-goal percentage. Portland has the league's fifth-best 3-point defense. Take the Fire with the point spread and on the moneyline.