Portland Trail Blazers 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
Since their last playoff appearance in 2021, the Portland Trail Blazers have fallen into their current status as one of the worst teams in the NBA. In 2023, franchise icon Damian Lillard moved on to the Milwaukee Bucks as the final white flag of surrender and a commitment to rebuild by the Trail Blazers. These days Portland is light years from serious contention but giving gamblers solid profits. As a result, the betting public sees the Blazers as a hidden gem. Portland’s lack of mass appeal forces linemakers to sweeten the pot with enhanced prices to draw action to the Blazers. Bargain hunters take a liking to the Trail Blazers. Wise Guys love the enhanced prices on Portland.
2024-25 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Portland Trail Blazers NBA Betting Lines
As the All-Star break approaches, the Portland Trailblazers are 21-29 straight up, 29-20 against the spread, and 24-25 over/under the total. Portland is 13th in the Western Conference playoff standings and 19 games behind the Oklahoma City Thunder in the race.
Portland's NBA metrics rank 26th for scoring offense, 23rd for field goal percentage, 26th for 3-point field goal percentage, 23rd for free throw percentage, and 22nd for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Trailblazers rank 20th for scoring defense, 23rd for field goal percentage permitted, 23rd for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 18th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
Last year, SG Anfernee Simons led Portland with 22.6 points and 5.5 assists per game. The Trail Blazers selected Simons 24th overall in the 2018 NBA Draft out of IMG Academy. Simons continues to build his game and credentials, outperforming his career year of 2022-23. So far this season, he is averaging 18.1 points per game.
SF Jerami Grant averaged 21.0 points per game last year. The Philadelphia 76ers selected Grant in the second round of the 2014 NBA Draft out of Syracuse. This is his second season with the Trail Blazers. This year, Grant is averaging 14.6 points per game.
Head Coach
Head coach Chauncey Billups was a five-time NBA All-Star and played for the 2004 Detroit Pistons NBA championship team. This is his second NBA head coaching position.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
21 |
61 |
5th, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
33 |
49 |
5th, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
27 |
55 |
4th, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
42 |
30 |
3rd, Northwest |
Lost in First Round, 2–4 (Nuggets) |
| 2019–20 |
73 |
35 |
39 |
4th, Northwest |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Lakers) |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
53 |
29 |
2nd, Northwest |
Lost in Conference Finals, 0–4 (Warriors) |
Portland Trail Blazers History
Since their founding as an NBA expansion franchise in 1970, the Portland Trail Blazers have been one of the more successful teams in the league in terms of postseason appearances. Portland has made the playoffs 37 times in their 53 seasons in the league, but its first playoff appearance was undoubtedly its best.
After failing to finish with a winning record in each of their first six seasons, the 1976-77 Portland Trail Blazers brought the franchise their lone NBA title. Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, and Lionel Hollins teamed up to lead this team on a tear in the playoffs under Jack Ramsay, and they beat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to claim the championship.
Health issues with Walton kept this team from being more of a force during the next few years, but the Trail Blazers remained competitive. They eventually brought in a new crop of stars and went to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992. Clyde ‘The Glyde’ Drexler was unable to take the team past Detroit or Chicago, though.
Portland was competitive in the late 1990s, too, with a team that included two young stars, Rasheed Wallace and Damon Stoudamire, and solid veterans like Scottie Pippen, Detlef Schrempf, and the legendary Arvydas Sabonis. They made it to the Western Conference Finals in back-to-back seasons and were probably better than the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2000 Western Conference Finals. The Lakers came back from a 16-point deficit to beat the Blazers in Game 7, and that’s a game that many people circled after the Tim Donaghy scandal broke open.
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