Portland at Los Angeles

LeBron James is expected to miss this game with a knee injury, but Los Angeles has enough to battle the Trail Blazers, who are playing their fourth road game in six days and come off an awful performance at Oklahoma City losing 98-81 while shooting 41.9 percent overall and 7-for-38 from 3-point range. Portland is playing without Damian Lillard (abdominal) until mid-March and it also has been bad defensively as illustrated in a 130-116 loss at Chicago on Sunday when the Bulls shot 55.5 percent. The Lakers won the last meeting by 33 points on Dec. 31 and the Blazers are 5-12 ATS their past 17 games as road underdogs and 8-18 ATS their past 26 road games overall. The Lakers have covered 11 of the last 16 meetings. Take the Lakers.