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Pascal Siakam Pacers
Indiana Pacers vs Portland Trail Blazers Picks and Predictions: Pacers +8.5 Are the Move as Portland Keeps Torching ATS Bettors

The Indiana Pacers (15-48) stumble into Moda Center to face the Portland Trail Blazers (30-34) on Sunday, March 8, tipping off at 9:00 PM ET, with Deni Avdija confirmed out for his eighth consecutive game due to lower back injury management and Shaedon Sharpe already ruled out for the rest of the regular season with a fibula stress reaction. Portland opened as a significant home favorite and the spread settled at -8.5 (-115), with the total hovering at 237.0, setting up a matchup where the Blazers are the better team on paper but their cover rate as big favorites is genuinely alarming. Indiana is 0-8 straight up in its last eight, on the road with short rest after a Friday night loss in Los Angeles, and riding a 1-5 ATS record in its last six games against Portland. Those are all the obvious reasons to ignore the Pacers. The less obvious reason to back them at +8.5 is that Portland is 1-5 ATS in games they were favored by 8.5 points or more this season and 0-7 ATS in its last seven March games The line is doing most of the work for Indiana here.

OC Staff
March 8, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
3 Minute Read
Alperen Sengun Rockets
Houston Rockets vs San Antonio Spurs Picks and Prediction: Sengun Owns This Matchup, and the Points Are Right There

The Houston Rockets (39-23, 3rd in the West) travel to Frost Bank Center on Sunday to close out the regular season series against the San Antonio Spurs (46-17, 2nd in the West), tipping off at 8:00 PM ET in a nationally televised Southwest Division game with playoff seeding genuinely at stake. Kevin Durant, Alperen Sengun, and Amen Thompson come in fresh off a 106-99 win over Portland on Friday, while Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs finished a 25-point comeback against the Clippers to win 116-112 in what their own star described as leaving "zero left" physically. San Antonio opened as a 5-point favorite and has ticked up to -5.5 at most books, with the total sitting at 222.5. Sengun averages 20.2 points and 5.4 assists across nine career matchups with Wemby, and the season series sits at 2-1 Spurs heading into the fourth and final regular season meeting.

OC Staff
March 8, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
3 Minute Read