The Houston Rockets will make the trip north of the border for a date with the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night. The Rockets have dropped back-to-back games following a five-game winning streak, while the Raptors lost their last game in Miami after winning three in a row.
After their five-game winning streak was halted on Saturday by the Clippers., the Rockets arrive in Brooklyn looking to get back on the rails against the Nets, who are looking at clinching a playoff spot.
The Chicago Bulls have been one of the best teams in the NBA following the All-Star break, and the Boston Celtics—a team that once looked like a contender for home-court advantage in a historically bad Eastern Conference—are now 12th out East.
The Spurs are laying waste to the league right now. They have one 17 in a row and if they can get this one on Monday they will have been perfect throughout the month of March. They are dominating with only 4 of those games finishing within less than 10 points.
The Knicks are 32-42 ATS with an O/U record of 42-32 and the Jazz are 31-38-5 ATS with an O/U record of 34-39-1. This season the Jazz are 15-21 at home and the Knicks are 15-22 on the road.
The Philly 76ers are taking the concept of “tanking” to the extreme. The Sixers are mired in a historically long losing streak, dropping 26 consecutive ballgames.
Memphis rolls into California on Friday, trailing host Golden State by one game in the West, and will hope that a win will provide a little separation from the eighth-place Suns, who tail the Grizzlies by just half a game for the final conference playoff spot.
The Spurs – pretty much the model for a professional sports franchise – are winners of 15 straight. With their trip to the foot of the Rocky Mountains on Friday night, there’s no reason why that win streak shouldn’t be extended.
The Heat are 31-37-2 ATS with an O/U record of 39-31 and the Pistons are 31-39-1 ATS with an O/U record of 47-24. This season the Pistons are 15-22 at home and the Heat are 20-16 on the road.
No team in the NBA needs a win as badly as the Portland Trail Blazers. Having lost eight of itheir last 11 games, the Blazers enter this matchup with the Atlanta Hawks as the fifth seed out West.
With no hope of making the postseason, the Lakers will try to maintain a little pride with a win over the struggling Bucks on Thursday, when the two face off at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, in Milwaukee.
The Toronto Raptors end a brief two-game road trip at TD Garden on Wednesday night where they will take on the Boston Celtics. Toronto has dropped four of its last five games, while Boston has dropped 13 of its last 17 games.
The NBA regular season close out the month of March and turning to this Wednesday’s schedule there is plenty to choose from when it comes to wagering on the games. We’ve got the Suns vs. Wiz, and Clippers vs. Pelicans.
The Thunder are playing their usual high quality brand of basketball and are looking really good having won their last three road games after dropping a couple in a row.
The Portland Trail Blazers are in the midst of their worst struggle of the season, but they have two things in their favor at this juncture: They’re coming off of a near-comeback win against the Miami Heat and they have the Orlando Magic up next—a franchise that wants nothing more than to tank and earn a top pick in the 2014 NBA draft.
A pair of iconic teams that have struggled all season long will clash in an East Coast versus West Coast rivalry game on Tuesday, when the Lakers hosts the Knicks at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
