Toronto at Las Vegas

Toronto is 1-9 in its last ten games, an expansion-season slide that included seven straight losses before one win snapped it, and last night's loss in Seattle put the Tempo right back in the tank. Vegas, by contrast, has had five days of rest since beating this same Toronto team 88-78 on the road, and sits 6-4 over its own last ten. Everything here points to a lopsided final, and that's precisely the risk with a number this size against a team still finding its footing on defense. The first meeting between these two didn't get out of hand until the fourth quarter, a ten-point final margin that flattered how competitive the first three quarters actually were, and a rested favorite facing the same overmatched opponent twice in one week has a way of not putting the same effort into salting away a second blowout. Toronto isn't winning this outright, but it doesn't have to. It needs to keep pace for three quarters, the way it already managed once against this exact team. Toronto is the right side on the spread tonight.