Start of NBA Playoffs Highlights Weekend Odds
The Los Angeles Clippers are 14-1 SU and 9-6 ATS over their last 15 games including a 7-0 SU and 4-3 ATS record over their last seven games. The Clippers will try to extend their winning streak this Sunday night when they host the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of the teams' best-of-seven series.
Los Angeles is a 1-point home favorite according to online sportsbook Bovada, making the Clippers the smallest favorite on the board in the NBA this weekend. San Antonio had a 12-game winning streak snapped by New Orleans in its final game of the regular season and ended the year on an 0-3 ATS skid after going 9-0 ATS in the team's previous nine games.
The Toronto Raptors are 7-1 SU and 6-2 ATS in their last eight games against the Washington Wizards. The Raptors will look to continue their success over Washington at home against the Wizards on Saturday as a 4.5-point favorite at online sportsbook 5Dimes.
As well, NBA championship co-favorites Golden State and Cleveland are both huge favorites this weekend as the Warriors are -11.5 hosting New Orleans on Saturday and Cleveland is an 11-point favorite at home over Boston on Sunday.
The Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens have a well-known hatred for one another, and that bad blood clearly showed in a chippy Game 1 that went to the Canadiens 4-3. Montreal will try to take a 2-0 stranglehold on the series on Friday as a -133 favorite at 5Dimes, with Ottawa paying +123 on the upset.
Chicago and Nashville provided the most entertaining Game 1 in the NHL this week as the Blackhawks erased an early three-goal deficit and eventually went on to win 4-3 in double overtime. Nashville is a slight favorite to tie the series up in Game 2 on Friday at -115 at Bovada with Chicago going off at -105.
The top two teams in the NL West clash this weekend in a three-game series as the 7-2 SU Colorado Rockies visit the 6-3 SU Los Angeles Dodgers. Clayton Kershaw takes the mound for the Dodgers on Friday as a -260 favorite over Kyle Kendrick and the Rockies at +220 at Bovada.