Portland at Los Angeles

It is very rare for me to lay two touchdowns on the hardwood. But, this is one such case in which the Lakers look to get revenge on Portland for their recent loss on the road to them. The last three games between these two teams this year had Portland winning on March 1st by 6, LA winning on February 21st by 17 and Portland winning on January 11th by 10. Notice a trend? The fact is that Portland won the first game of their meetings at home, only to come to LA to lose by 17. Then, Portland won again at home recently, thus, it seems that the Lakers will look for revenge in front of their home crowd where they play dominant. Also, keep in mind that the Lakers are just 2.5 games ahead of Utah for the 7th seed and the Kings are just 1 game back in the 8th seed so this game has a lot of significance for the team as they look to return to the playoffs which will clearly make a statement that this team is headed back in the right direction. Throw in that Portland is on a 6-21 ATS run, 0-7 ATS following a ATS win and the Lakers are 6-0 ATS of late as a favorite.