NBA · Finalupdated 19:03 UTC

Portland Trail Blazers vs Sacramento Kings

at Sacramento Kings

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POR 128 – SAC 120

Final · 2 of 2 picks won

2 picks checked: 2 won, 0 lost.

Getting a better price than most bookmakers offer is the only thing that made money in our past tests, measured on WNBA bets; NBA has not been measured yet. Player rates are context, not tips.

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How to read this page

A pick is a player line, for example Under 13.5 points, that we published before the game together with the price we found for it. We do not take bets.
Odds are shown in the decimal format: 1.93 means you get back 1.93 for every 1 staked, so a higher number pays more. The American format (−108 means risk 108 to win 100; +111 means risk 100 to win 111) appears only in the Data log at the bottom of the page.
'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; 'better' is a higher price for the same line at another bookmaker. Taking the better price is the one thing on this page that made money over many past bets; that was measured on WNBA bets, and NBA has not been measured yet.
'Market puts Under at 48.5%' is the chance implied by all bookmakers' prices together, with their built-in margin removed. Pinnacle is a bookmaker whose prices are widely treated as the most accurate reference, so it is the one we compare against.
A player's rate is how often that player has gone over the line in every game we hold since the 2019-20 season (not only this season), for example over in 41 of 78 games (52.6%), with a likely range such as 32–52%: fewer games means a wider range, and under 10 games we show no rate word at all.
'Past record stronger than the price' means the whole likely range sits above the chance the bookmakers' price implies; 'weaker' means below; 'agrees with the price' means the price sits inside the range, which is the usual case. None of these is a tip.
'Not measurable' is the usual honest answer: too few games to tell a real difference from chance.
'What could go wrong' lists the facts that can change a line: who is out, whether the starting lineup is confirmed, expected playing time (RotoWire's estimate), rest, and how many bookmakers price each line.
After the final, every pick is checked against the official stats and compared with the last price before the game started, the market's most informed price; getting a better price than that is the fairest test of a pick, whether or not it won. A tie means the player landed exactly on the line and the stake is returned; lines ending in .5 cannot tie.
Results are given for every 1 staked: 'would have returned +0.93' means a stake of 1 would have come back with 0.93 in profit. We do not stake anything; the record is what a stake of 1 on each pick would have done. Our record counts a smaller stake when the price advantage was small.
S beside a name marks an expected starter. Times are shown in your device's time zone; our data is recorded in US Eastern Time (ET). Team codes are the league's three-letter abbreviations.
'Your prediction' lets you pick Over or Under on any line before the game starts; we check your predictions the same way and keep your record, and one game of results proves nothing.
Team codes on this page: POR = Portland Trail Blazers, SAC = Sacramento Kings.

Saved player research

Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first · results checked

A line is the number a bookmaker sets, e.g. 13.5 points; Over means more than it, Under fewer. Odds 1.93 pay 1.93 for every 1 staked. 'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; after the game it is compared with the last price before the start.

Publication timing not verified

Saved legacy CORE rows, if available, have not been verified as pre-tip publications. They are not backfilled into the published record, and a missing row is not a pass.

No new predictions are being generated here after tip. Saved calls and captured research are not current offers or injury confirmations.

This game’s current price coverage could not be verified. An empty price panel does not mean bookmakers have no lines.

Price comparison only: live snapshot enrichment and model inference were not requested by this game view. Source injuries, lineups and historical statistics are separate reads.

Evaluation coverage and timestamps

Status is slate-wide, observed only since the service started. It does not identify this game’s individual evaluation result.

Slate games processed: 0 / 0
Latest publication attempt: unknown
Status observed since: 29 Oct, 12:14 UTC

No verified attempt timestamp was returned. This is unknown—not a successful empty evaluation.

D. Clingan · Under 11.5 reboundsWonPosted at 1.82 · last price before start pendingWon +0.82 per 1 staked

Posted at 1.82

Pinnacle 1.72, 14300 min ago

First offered at 1.78 by Pinnacle (Fri 14:18 UTC); latest 1.72 at Pinnacle (Fri 20:43 UTC). The 11.5 line itself has not moved.

Re-checked 1 h before the start not re-checked

Legacy CORE signal · publication timing not verified. Paper signal · no recommended model stake. The broader CORE flat-1u benchmark is separate; it is not a recommended1u wager or the exact published cohort’s ROI.

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J. Morant · Over 5.5 assistsWithdrawn: outPosted at 1.80 · last price before start pendingWon +0.80 per 1 staked

Why the better price matters

A higher price for the same line pays more whenever the pick wins; that is arithmetic, not a forecast.

What taking the best price is worth has been measured only on WNBA lines (25 Aug 2026); NBA has not been measured yet.

The players

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view · 35 rostered players. 2 published picks use separate saved records.

Rate: the share of every game we hold for the player since the 2019-20 season (not only this season) in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Context only A player's rate describes the past; it is not a tip and has not been tested as one. Expected minutes come from RotoWire, a lineup news service.

Sign in to see each player's rate The numbers below (for example 15.5 points) are the lines the bookmakers actually posted.

Portland Trail Blazersplaying SAC

17 players have no line from any bookmaker: Avdija (33 expected minutes) · Camara (32 min) · +15 more

Sacramento Kingsplaying POR

18 players have no line from any bookmaker: Jr. (34 expected minutes) · Sabonis (33 min) · +16 more

Saved gameplay research · not CORE picks

What did the models record?

Read frozen projections, minutes and lineup assumptions for this exact game. These are uncalibrated research—not official recommendations or evidence that the CORE selector ran.

Only original pre-tip captures are read. Nothing is newly forecast after tip; old availability assumptions are not current injury news.

Saved reads only · no new captures, current snapshots, odds requests or paid AI runs.

What could go wrong

updated 19:03 UTC

Who is out

Out Morant · left hamstring strain (hamstring) · POR

Out Kent · two-way · POR

Out Tonje · two-way · POR

Out Sharpe · right meniscus surgery · POR

Out Simmons · right achilles tendon repair/surgery (achilles) · SAC

May not play Cardwell · left calf strain (calf) · SAC

Out Murray · left ankle capsulitis (ankle) · SAC

Out Raynaud · right knee subluxation · SAC

Out Pedulla · two-way · SAC

May not play LaVine · right elbow inflammation/soreness (elbow) · SAC

Lineups

Starting lineup confirmed (Sat 01:55 UTC) · NBA Official Lineups API, a lineup news service

Playing time

For 5 players (Clingan, Lillard, Holiday, Mogbo, Karaban) we have no real minutes estimate, only a default.

Rest

Both teams had at least two days between their last game and this one.

Bookmakers

Full player-line feed has no entries in this view. 2 published picks use separate saved records.

When a player is out, that player's lines are removed: in our past results this helped. Guessing which teammates benefit was also tested and lost money, so nothing else on this page is adjusted for it.

What happened

One game proves nothing.

Final · 2 of 2 picks won2 won, 0 lost · +1.62 if you had staked 1 on each · 3 lines checked, 1 scored but not picked · checked Sat 14:47 UTC

No player-line entries were captured in this roster view.

Each prediction is recorded as if you had staked 1 at the line you saw, and your record is shown here. One game tells you nothing yet.

More context

Head to head

SAC vs POR · last 24 games · POR leads · SAC record 10–14 · average score 115.3–113.7 · SAC has won by 1.6 on average

Team results are background only; they say nothing about any single player's line.

23 Oct · POR 128 at SAC 120SAC lost

13 Oct · POR 110 at SAC 98SAC lost

12 Apr · SAC 110 at POR 122SAC lost

What each defense gives up per game

POR gives up109.2 points · 40.6 rebounds · 23.6 assists · 31.7% from three-point range

SAC gives up128.3 points · 46.2 rebounds · 30.0 assists · 39.2% from three-point range

Defense by position

How much this is worth

Defense-by-position numbers are mostly random from season to season; shown for context only. We tested it: a team's defense-by-position numbers from one half of the season do not predict the other half, so treat them as noise.

POR gives up 109.2 points a game · 10th of 29 · league average 113.5−4.3 vs average

SAC gives up 128.3 points a game · 28th of 29 · league average 113.5+14.8 vs average

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had POR expected to win by 7, expected total 233 (Thu 07:16 UTC) and later POR expected to win by 10, expected total 232 (Fri 23:37 UTC).

The odds at the top of the page are the latest we have, from every bookmaker on file; this is one bookmaker's own history.

Data log (technical)

Technical detail for auditing; the plain version is above. Internal ids and formula names print here only.

Line-shopping measurement: project_conditional_minutes_refuted

Defense-by-position measurement: split-half reliability r = -0.033 across 12 cells (7 of 12 negative) against a shuffle null of 0.000; a placebo using the wrong position family reproduced the effect to within 0.12pp · project_dvp_blowout_gate_refuted · 2026-08-26

Our picks, raw · 2

Ja Morant · O 5.5 assists−125value_edge_pct +2.04 · kelly 0.65u · price_check unchecked · rank 6

Donovan Clingan · U 11.5 rebounds−122value_edge_pct −1.72 · kelly 0.00u · price_check unchecked · rank 10

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 3

Damian Lillard Under 3.5 3PMWIN +0.70ubet −143 · bet_clv:2324559 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 A · p_hit 60.2% · actual 2 · 32.7 min · started · role_trend minutes_collapse · active_status active · historical_min_avg 30.9 · prior_season_games 9 · historical_stat_avg 2.4 · current_season_min_avg 23.9 · minutes_source_confidence diverge_low_confidence

Ja Morant Over 5.5 ASTWIN +0.80ubet −125 · bet_clv:2335107 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 B · p_hit 56.7% · actual 7 · 26.9 min · started · season_avg 8 · active_status active · historical_min_avg 25.7 · prior_season_games 9 · historical_stat_avg 7.7 · current_season_min_avg 22.6 · recent_vs_baseline_flag stable · minutes_source_confidence diverge_low_confidence

Donovan Clingan Under 11.5 REBWIN +0.82ubet −122 · bet_clv:2335108 · disciplined · captured 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z · grade_v2 C · p_hit 54.0% · actual 11 · 20.5 min · started · season_avg 7 · active_status active · historical_min_avg 23.8 · prior_season_games 9 · rebound_trend_flag stable · tpa_rate_delta_pct 0.329 · historical_stat_avg 9.2 · current_season_min_avg 20.7 · recent_vs_baseline_flag hot_streak · minutes_source_confidence diverge_low_confidence

Data fetches · 20

grading picks/nightlyok 200 · 24 ms

sds defense/team (away)ok 200 · 23 ms

sds defense/team (home)ok 200 · 23 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (home)ok 200 · 23 ms

sds analytics opponent_defense (away)ok 200 · 24 ms

sds schedule/team (meetings)ok · 25 ms

sds rest/team (away)ok 200 · 91 ms

sds injuries/game/{id}ok 200 · 93 ms

sds games/{id}ok 200 · 95 ms

grading picks/published (saved-only)ok · 95 ms

sds lineups/{id}ok 200 · 99 ms

sds games/{id}/boxscoreok 200 · 102 ms

sds rest/team (home)ok 200 · 105 ms

sds history (h2h)ok · 123 ms

grading verdict/board (price-only)failed 502 · 140 ms

grading clv/picksok 200 · 93 ms

odds player timeline (assists)failed 503 · 105 ms

dh lineups/{id}/deltaok 200 · 436 ms

odds game timelineok 200 · 1014 ms

odds player timeline (rebounds)ok 200 · 1453 ms

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