One game down, three to go.
Saturday evening, the No. 6 Portland Trail Blazers defeated the No. 3 Denver Nuggets in Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round series to steal homecourt advantage with a 123-109 win at Ball Arena.
What are the odds Portland returns to Rip City up 2-0? Not as bad as you'd expect.
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After Portland's Game 1 victory, Game 2 opened with the Denver Nuggets favored by a point, before the line moving to Nuggets by 1.5 points the next morning on PointsBet, the official sports betting partner of NBC Sports.
MONEY LINE:
- Portland: +100
- Denver: -121
POINT SPREAD:
- Portland: +1.5Â (-110)
- Denver: -1.5Â (-110)
- O/U: 227Â (-115)
PointsBet also offers over/under's for player props.
- Damian Lillard: 29.5 points, +145 to lead the game in points, 7.5 assists, 3.5 3's, 4.5 rebounds
- CJ McCollum: 21.5 points, +750Â to lead the game in points, 4.5 assists, 2.5 3's, 4.5 rebounds
- Jusuf Nurkić: 14.5 points, +4000 to lead the game in points, 10.5 rebounds
- Norman Powell: 17.5 points, +2500Â to lead the game in points, 1.5 3's,Â
- Robert Covington: 7.5 points, 1.5 3's, 6.5 rebounds
- Nikola Jokić: 30.5 points, +115 to lead the game in points, 7.5 assists, 1.5 3's, 11.5 rebounds
- Michael Porter Jr.: 24.5 points, +450Â to lead the game in points, 3.5 3's, 8.5 rebounds
- Aaron Gordon: 11.5 points, +4000 to lead the game in points
- Facundo Campazzo: 9.5 points, +4000 to lead the game in points, 5.5 assists, 1.5 3's
FiveThirtyEight has the Blazers with a 57% chance of winning the series, a 21% chance of making the Western Conference Finals, a 5% chance to win the West, and a 2% chance to win the title after its Game 1 victory.Â
Portland and Denver tip-off Game 2 on Monday, May 24th at 7:00 p.m. on NBC Sports NW, the official home of the Portland Trail Blazers.Â