Early season NBA betting action sees the\u00a0Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong>\u00a0taking on the Denver Nuggets<\/strong> on Tuesday, Dec. 2\u00a0at the Pepsi\u00a0Center. Cappers Picks provides free NBA handicapping tips all season long.<\/p>\n Portland<\/a> (13-4) vs.\u00a0Denver<\/a> (9-8)\u00a0<\/strong> Click here to view…\u00a0NBA ATS Stats<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Expert NBA Betting Insight!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Portland Trail Blazers have faced off against the Denver Nuggets twice this season. Twice, they’ve dominated their divisional opponents.<\/p>\n So far this season, the Blazers are sixth in points scored and sixth in points allowed. They’re averaging 104.2 points per contest while giving up just 96.2 points per contest.<\/p>\n [dfads params=’groups=63742&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n According to ESPN.com, they’re fourth in offensive efficiency and sixth in defensive efficiency. That’s a vast improvement from last season, making the legitimate threats for the first time in over a decade to contend for a championship.<\/p>\n [dfads params=’groups=66501&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n The Denver Nuggets got off to an awfully slow start. They won just one of their first seven games, but they’ve recovered nicely, winning eight of their next 10.<\/p>\n Two of those early losses came against the Trail Blazers. Portland managed to win those games by controlling the pace.<\/p>\n In this one, look for the Nuggets to come out aggressive early. They will push the tempo, and they’ll do what they can to tire out the Blazers.<\/p>\n The problem is, while the Nuggets are fourth this season in points per game scored (105.4 per contest), they’re also struggling defensively. The team is just 26th in points per game allowed.<\/p>\n They give up 105.2 points per game, making it difficult to push their record much above .500 with a negative point margin of 0.2 points per contest.<\/p>\n [dfads params=’groups=63741&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n The Nuggets have looked improved, but the Blazers have consistently been the better team this season. Their only loss in the last 10 matchups has come to the Memphis Grizzlies — the team leading the Western Conference, and the team that has yet to lose to a single opponent out West.<\/p>\n Look for this one to be more tightly contest than the past two matchups between these two, but with a point spread as low as it is, look for Portland to come away with a win both straight up and against the spread.<\/p>\n [dfads params=’groups=63706&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NBA Betting? Blazers vs Nuggets Predictions Early season NBA betting action sees the\u00a0Portland Trail Blazers\u00a0taking on the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday, Dec. 2\u00a0at the Pepsi\u00a0Center. Cappers Picks provides free NBA handicapping tips all season long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":986,"featured_media":89506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[53145,7042,5958,21148,749,2381,30501,11306],"class_list":["post-89505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-53145","tag-blazers-vs-nuggets","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-nba-basketball-predictions","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-picks","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portland-trail-blazers-vs-denver-nuggets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89505","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\/986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89533,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89505\/revisions\/89533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2014 NBA Picks<\/h3>\n
\nTuesday,\u00a0Dec. 2<\/strong>
\n9:00 p.m. ET<\/strong>
\nPepsi\u00a0Center<\/b>
\nTV: Local<\/strong>
\nNBA Betting Lines:\u00a0Portland -2.5<\/strong>
\nNBA Betting Total: \u00a0212.5<\/strong>
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4* NBA\u00a0Prediction: Portland -2.5<\/h3>\n
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