The Portland Trail Blazers are able to look at the schedule ahead and see something they haven’t see for a long time: lots of home games. Eight of their next nine games will be held at the Moda Center. While they will not be fancied in all of them there are definitely some winnable games between now and the end of the year. Thursday night’s matchup is one of them. In fact, the Blazers are -148 favorites on DraftKings as of this writing, the first time they’ve been favorites all season.
After an encouraging rebuilding season in 2022-23, The Utah Jazz feel that they might be regressing a bit.