The Portland Trail Blazers look to take back the series lead with a road win over the Phoenix Suns on TNT at 10:30 PM ET, April 26, 2010.
The Suns are 7-point NBA playoff odds favorites and the over/under is 204.
The Blazers opened the series with a shocking 105-100 win in Phoenix before the Suns figured out how to push the tempo picking up a 90-119 win in Phoenix and a 89-108 win in Portland.
The Phoenix Suns looked like they had figured the Blazers out and were ready to run away with it, but they got away from their up-tempo game on Saturday and fell 96-87 knotting the series at two games apiece.
The media’s big story was the return of Portland’s Brandon Roy just one week after knee surgery, but Roy wasn’t a game-changer coming off of the bench on Saturday.
LaMarcus Aldridge led the Portland Trail Blazers with 31 points and made a bunch of poor-percentage shots.
The Phoenix Suns missed a lot of open looks shooting just 42 percent and weren’t able to push the tempo of the game the way they normally like to.
Portland has a monster ATS road record going 26-16-1 but the Suns are beasts at home going 26-16-1 ATS. All that may not matter in this series though as both teams have a win and a cover at home and on the road.
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