Dallas at San Antonio

The San Antonio Spurs brought home another NBA Championship last season, and they hope that they have the roster and players to get it done one more time. Dallas had to fight through an 82 game schedule last year, to slide into the eighth and final playoffs spot in the West, and bowed out in one round to this same Spurs team. They will have to contend with more than the San Antonio team tonight as they will raise the Championship flag before the game, and the place is going to be electric. Dallas did a lot to upgrade their team, and have a lot of new talented pieces, but that may also take some time to find the roles, and team chemistry. Experimenting with that on the road against a Championship-level team in front of a frenzied crowd may be too much to ask for in game one. The Spurs are also 9-1 ATS in their last ten home games, and under Gregg Popovich, this team is 83-58 ATS as a home favorite. And even without Kawhi Leonard, the Spurs are markedly better than Dallas. San Antonio takes the opener.