The Portland Trail Blazers defend its 3-game home winning streak when they welcome the inconsistent Denver Nuggets to the Moda Center on Saturday morning. The Trail Blazers are 12th in the West and are leveraging their home form to make a run to get into the last play in the seed. The Denver Nuggets are confident they will make it to the Eastern Conference playoffs, but they have injury concerns, especially to their biggest stars. Having won the first three games of their 6-game home stand convincingly, the Portland Trail Blazers are slight favorites to win the basketball game.
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BASKETBALL: NBA Regular Season
Where to Watch: NBA League Pass
Venue: Moda Center, Portland, OR
Date: 22.03.2025 05:00
Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers (31-39, 12th in the Western Conference) are on a three-game winning streak, having beaten the Memphis Grizzlies, Washington Wizards, and Toronto Raptors, respectively. While the Blazers may have been expected to beat the Raptors and Wizards, their comfortable 115-99 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night tells that Portland is hitting form in the crucial last weeks of the regular season. Deni Avdija led Portland with 31 points, 16 rebounds, and eight assists against Memphis, with the Blazers ahead by 21 points in the third quarter. Anfernee Simons scored 22 points against the Toronto Raptors earlier in the week and added another 22 points against the Grizzlies to bring the Blazers two games off 10th place in the West. The Blazers center Robert Williams III will be out for four to six weeks after undergoing a procedure to treat recurrent knee inflammation. Jabari Walker, Deandre Ayton, and Jerami Grant are all ruled out too.
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The injury-ravaged Denver Nuggets (44-26) lost to a Luka Dončić-inspired Los Angeles Lakers 120-108 on Thursday night. The Nuggets have been inconsistent of late, recording five wins and five losses in their last ten games. 3-time MVP Nikola Jokić and Jamel Murray have missed two straight games with elbow and ankle injuries, respectively. Jokic is also ruled out against Portland, with Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun reported as probable, while Jamel Murray is questionable for Saturday’s game. The Nuggets had beaten the Golden State Warriors with their depleted roster earlier in the week before falling to the superior firepower of Doncic and the Lakers.
Betting Odds
The Portland Trail Blazers are 1.889 favorites on 1xbet, listing the Denver Nuggets as 1.972 underdogs. Betway has over 225.5 at 1.89, with the under at 1.69 odds. The Nuggets are 1.74 to win with a (+ 2.0) handicap on Bet365, which has the Blazers to close the (- 2.5) spread at 2.05. Read more here.
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