{"id":20627,"date":"2010-03-25T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:30:05","slug":"thursday-dallas-mavericks-vs-portland-trail-blazers-picks-250310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/thursday-dallas-mavericks-vs-portland-trail-blazers-picks-250310\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs. Trailblazers NBA Pick | Preview (Mar. 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NBA Betting \u2013 Thursday Night Picks<\/h2>\n<p>Before\u00a0<a href=\"\/nba\"><strong>nba betting<\/strong><\/a> fans turn their attention to more sports betting events this weekend, we have the NBA. It\u2019s time for our weekly Thursday Night hoops picks for NBA gambling action.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/handicappers\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR THE BEST NBA WEEKLY GAMBLING PICKS!! \u2014&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>MAVERICKS vs. TRAIL BLAZERS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: Thursday 10:30 ET<br \/>\n<strong>Venue<\/strong>: Rose Garden, Portland<br \/>\n<strong>Spread<\/strong>: Trail Blazers -2.5<br \/>\n<strong>Over\/Under<\/strong>: 192<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team records:<\/strong><br \/>\nDallas: 47-24 SU, 28-41-2 ATS<br \/>\nPortland: 42-29 SU, 38-31-2 ATS <\/p>\n<p>These should be heady times in Portland. Greg Oden should be just about figuring out the NBA and the Blazers \u2013 with the Twin Towers of Oden and LaMarcas Aldridge \u2013 should be doing a pretty good imitation of the Duncan-Robinson Spurs or at least the Sampson-Olajuwon Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>      Instead, Oden continues to rehab his way back from another bad injury and the team limps to the playoffs on the back of scoring guard Brandon Roy and not a heck of a lot else.<\/p>\n<p>      Oh, and we\u2019d be remiss in not mentioning the palace intrigue going on behind closed doors. GM Kevin Pritchard is angry because he can\u2019t get a contract extension and huge raise, team president Larry Miller refuses to give Pritchard either a vote of confidence or credit for the team\u2019s modest success, and no one really knows why owner Paul Allen is never around.<\/p>\n<p>     The front office stuff is amusing to the players and maybe coach Nate McMillan, who have just about locked up a playoff spot and could finish as high as 5th in the West. And that would be an accomplishment for a team whose bigs have been ravaged by injuries and is trying to get by with youngsters (Nicolas Batum) or players with not much tire tread left (Juwon Howard, Marcus Camby).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_3953b_687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_687\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Online Sports Betting at Sportsbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blazers head into tonight\u2019s game with 5 wins in their last 6, a 5-game win streak, against weak teams, having ended in a defeat at Phoenix. <\/p>\n<p>Portland has Dallas at home again (April 9), and has two important game against Oklahoma City (the Thunder, Blazers and Spurs are neck and neck heading into tonight\u2019s games).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betting Trends<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>\nThe total has gone UNDER in 14 of Portland&#8217;s last 20 games when playing Dallas<br \/>\nDallas is 15-3 SU in its last 18 games<br \/>\nDallas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>\nDallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>\nDallas is 18-4 SU in its last 22 games when playing Portland<br \/>\nPortland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games<br \/>\nPortland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/p>\n<h3>THURSDAY NIGHT BEST NBA PARLAY BET:<\/h3>\n<p>The Mavs are a decent road team. They are also a decent cover team on the road, and they\u2019re also good ATS on the road against good teams that play well at home. <\/p>\n<p>Motivation is everything in the final dozen games of the season, and Dallas is still in the mix for the second-best home record in the West. The Blazers and Mavs are both solid Over teams, but this one will be more like a playoff game, and playoff games tend to slow down. <\/p>\n<p>In the opener, keep an eye on Michael Beasley, who claims that criticism from TNT commentator Charles Barkley a while back threw off his game. Beasley never seems to have his head on right, and he might press tonight. <\/p>\n<p>For a possible parlay, consider Bulls -1.5 in the opener and the under (192) in the second game.<\/p>\n<h4>Get Your Free $10 Bet Today at Sportsbook.com<\/h4>\n<p>Visit the Bet Menu at half-time to place your bet. Everybody Gets a $10.00 Free Bet today.<\/p>\n<h3>CLICK HERE TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT AT SPORTSBOOK.COM AND BET $50 ON THE HALF TIME LINE FOR THE THURSDAY NIGHT MATCHUPS!!!!!!<\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our experts weigh in with this week\u2019s best Thursday night hoops NBA picks for gambling on all the action&#8230;tonight on the hardwood we get the Dallas Mavs vs. Portland Trailblazers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26805,26804,4045,5595,26800,26801,26802,26803,20992,20991,9273,9921,20993,20994,21934],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-dallas-mavericks-vs-portland-trailblazers","tag-dallas-portland-picks","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-mavericks-trailblazers-odds","tag-mavericks-trailblazers-picks","tag-mavericks-vs-trailblazers","tag-mavericks-vs-trailblazers-predictions","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-thursday-night-nba","tag-thursday-night-nba-picks","tag-thursday-night-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107117,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions\/107117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}