Free NBA Pick: Washington Wizards -7.0 (-110)
Wed Mar 26 ‘08 10:05p
One club in tonight’s affair is still jockeying for playoff position, while the others season has been over for quite some time. Washington invades Seattle with its (36-34) SU mark good enough for the 5th seed in the Eastern Conference. They’ve posted a sub .500 mark on the road this season, (15-19), but they’ve been nothing but gold against the spread winning 21 of their 33 contests against the Vegas number. As for Seattle, it’s been a long season but it looks to be coming to an end very shortly. The Sonics have picked up 11 of their 17 wins this season at home, and they own a +.500 mark ATS at 17-16-1.

The Wizards last took the floor in Portland last night, and suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of the Trailblazers. Both LaMarcus Aldridge and Brandon Roy failed to play the entire game, yet the Wizards lost by a 102-82 final count. The 20-point defeat was embarrassing for the team, but not as embarrassing as it was for those that laid the 2-points with the “Wizz”. The combined 184 points fell a couple points shy of the closing ‘total’ of 187. The loss snapped Washington’s 3-game SU winning streak, but they’ve been playing well of late and come into tonight’s contest 7-3 SU and 5-5 ATS. Pointspread players take note: the Wizards are a poor 7-9 ATS on 0 days rest this season.

Seattle beat Portland on this same floor just two days ago to snap their 11-game SU losing streak. They dominated the Blazers in the second half outscoring them 48-31, and ended up cashing their backers tickets as 8-point home pups with ease. The victory was the Sonics first at home since February 22nd when they beat the same Blazers squad by a 99-87 final count. Seattle is 10-8 ATS at home vs. +.500 teams this season.

Washington pounded the Sonics in their lone meeting this season back in early January. The 108-86 final tally saw the Wizards easily cover the 8.5-points and the combined total stay under the closing number of 202.5. Seattle hasn’t fared well against Washington recently going 2-8 SU and 1-9 ATS their L/10 meetings. Along with their overall SU & ATS dominance over the Sonics, Washington has covered the spread in 5 of their L/6 visits to Seattle.

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