The Oklahoma City Thunder hold the fourth-best odds to win the 2016 NBA championship after a tumultuous 2014-15 campaign. Very few teams in the league will ever be able to repeat that sentence about themselves, but with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook looking to come back healthy (and at the same time), this group could turn things around quickly after one down year.
It is crunch time in two of the four NBA Conference Semifinal matchups this Tuesday night. After digging deep into the key stats and betting trends for both of these games, I am ready to release this week’s “NBA Parlay Play”.
It seems like none of the top teams in the league are not playing all that well right now…including Oklahoma City. The Thunder will be on a back to back for this one playing Dallas at home before hopping a flight up to the Windy City to play the Bulls.
The Houston Rockets will make the trip over to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for a date with the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday. The Rockets bring a five-game winning streak to town with them, while the Thunder have been up and down since the All-Star break.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will make the trip over to Arizona and the US Airways Center for a Thursday night showdown with the Phoenix Suns.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will make the trip over to the Moda Center on Tuesday to take on Northwest Division rival the Portland Trail Blazers. Oklahoma State enters red hot, with wins in 13 of their last 15 games, while Portland’s hit a bit of a rough patch, alternating wins and losses over their last six games.
The Thunder are 28-19 ATS with an O/U record of 23-24 and the Nets are 21-22 ATS with an O/U record of 22-19-2.
Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Miami Heat. Kevin Durant vs. LeBron James. Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference. The storylines are set for Wednesday night’s matchup between the two contenders in opposite conferences, and with the top two MVP candidates set to face off, this is must-see television for any NBA fan.
Brooklyn is hoping the New Year will bring new luck but that seems unlikely as they are still on their road trip of death, playing the league’s best teams in Indiana, San Antonio and now Oklahoma City.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Oklahoma City Thunder have already faced off once throughout the 2013-14 NBA season, and while Portland won Round 1, it’s OKC with home-court advantage this time around.
The Chicago Bulls were once considered a legitimate title contender, but the recent season-ending injury to Derrick Rose has all but eliminated them from contention at this point in the 2013-14 season.
The Denver Nuggets host the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night in what should be an entertaining affair. Oklahoma City has scored 110.6 points per game in their last eight meetings with Denver, while the Nuggets have countered with an average of 108.0 points in those eight games.
Once upon a time, the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder would have been a Western Conference Finals dream.
The Portland Trail Blazers continue to shock the NBA world, and their most recent spectacle resulted in their most impressive win to date: a 106- 102 victory over the league-leading Indiana Pacers.
The Warriors continue to struggle on the road as they lost at Dallas in the second game of their current road trip. It was also the second game of a back to back but this is a young team and it is early in the season so that shouldn’t matter all that much.
Los Angles has won five of its last six and arrive in Oklahoma on Thursday to take on a Thunder team that is perfect at home.
