Portland Trail Blazers vs. Phoenix Suns Prop Pick: Can Deandre Ayton Ball Out Against Former Team?
The Portland Trail Blazers will take a trip to Phoenix to battle the Suns on Tuesday night. It will be Deandre Ayton's first time back since getting traded by the Suns just weeks before the season began. Can he go off against his former team and put on a show? Matt McCuen breaks down the revenge matchup.
Matt McCuen - November 21, 2023, 2:07 PM EST
5 minPortland Trail Blazers vs. Phoenix Suns Prop Pick: Can Deandre Ayton Ball Out Against Former Team?
The Portland Trail Blazers and the Phoenix Suns will meet up from Phoenix on Tuesday Night for a Western Conference showdown.
Blazers vs. Suns Date, Time, and Where to Watch
- Date: November 21, 2023
- Game Time: 9:00 p.m. ET
- Where to Watch: NBA League Pass
Portland Trail Blazers vs. Phoenix Suns Prediction
It has been a tough go of things for the Blazers this season.
Portland enters Tuesday Night with a 3-10 record.
The Blazers have lost seven consecutive games, with their last win coming all the way back on November 3rd.
Veteran Jerami Grant leads the Portland offense. The former Syracuse standout leads the team, averaging 22.0 points per game.
Shaedon Sharpe has had a strong start to the season. Sharpe has averaged 17.7 points per game, paired with 3.2 assists.
Portland added a pair of veterans in Malcolm Brogdon and Deandre Ayton in the off-season. Brogdon has averaged 17.3 points per game, while Ayton has averaged 12.2 points and 7.9 rebounds.
Portland has been without one of their young stars, Anfernee Simons, who has played in just one game this season.
The Suns entered the season as the betting favorite to win the Western Conference.
Phoenix will begin play with a 7-6 record.
The team has yet to play with all three of its stars together: Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal.
Durant is doing what he has done his entire career: scoring the basketball. Durant is averaging a team-high 31.4 points per game.
Booker has played in just five of the team's thirteen games, averaging 28.8 points per game and 9.8 assists.
Beal has played in three games averaging 17.3 points per game.
The Suns will aim to win their third consecutive game tonight.
Portland Trail Blazers vs. Phoenix Suns Prop Pick
The Ayton revenge game is upon us.
Ayton was a former first-overall pick of the Suns, and there was a time when it looked like the Suns were going to build around him.
Ayton was unhappy with his role in Phoenix and forced his way out of Phoenix.
Ayton will play this game with a chip on his shoulder tonight, facing his former team.
The usage for Ayton has been there as he is 30-plus minutes in close games this year.
The Suns are one of the worst teams at defense in the paint, ranking 26th in the league in points allowed in the paint (54.3)
Pick: Deandre Ayton over 12.5 points -115 Click here to see which sportsbook has the best odds
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