Portland at Seattle

Portland is playing out the string on a brutal stretch, its fourth straight game away from home after a quadruple-overtime marathon in Washington that piled extra minutes onto already tired legs. Seattle just got run off the floor by twenty-three points at Phoenix, but the finish told a different story: a twenty-three-to-seven closing run that erased most of a twenty-six-point deficit before time ran out, and Ezi Magbegor is back in the rotation after missing time with injury. That kind of finish tends to carry into the next game more than the final score does. Climate Pledge Arena hosts Portland for the first time, and travel fatigue has a way of showing up early against a team that is rested and home tonight. Seattle is the right side on the spread.