Oklahoma City Thunder vs Portland Trail Blazers Prediction: the Thunder will win without their leader?

Prediction for the NBA match which will take place on March 8. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Oklahoma City Thunder

The Thunder really owns the season record for longest winning streak, which Cleveland is now approaching. The Cavaliers currently have 12 straight wins, while Oklahoma won 15 games in a row at the beginning of the season. Theoretically, the team can still beat this achievement. The Thunder have 19 more games to play before the end of the championship, and their winning streak is now five games in a row.

In fact, Oklahoma won their fifth victory in this stretch the day before yesterday, beating Memphis 120:103 on the road - the fourth team in the Western Conference. Oklahoma is leading the West with an 11.0 win margin over second place, so it's certain to guarantee itself the top spot before the end of the season.

Portland Trail Blazers

Judging by the way Dallas has been playing lately, the Trail Blazers are officially back in the play-in race and will play for tenth place in the Western Conference with Phoenix. Portland is now 12th, 1.5 wins behind the Suns and 4.0 wins away from the top-10. That being said, the Mavericks are about to start losing game after game, and Chauncey Billups' team has a good chance to make up that handicap.

In the last game Portland lost on the road to Boston (118:128), but before that won five out of six matches. During this stretch, the Trail Blazers defeated all the middlers and outsiders, including Philadelphia (119:102), and lost only to the Eastern Conference leader Cleveland - 129:133 (119:119) in overtime.

H2H Meetings

This season Oklahoma managed to beat Portland three times.

Expert Betting Tips

Oklahoma will go to the upcoming meeting without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander , and this is a big loss, but, in general, the Thunder are a systematic team, so they will surely be able to claim victory in the absence of their leader. Let's bet here on Okla's victory, and also take the total under.

Total Under 226.5 for 1.91

Total Under 226.5 for 2.00

Handicap 1 (-2.5) for 1.89