The Houston Rockets will travel to Oakland, CA to face off with the Golden State Warriors at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California to open up the 2017 NBA Season. The contest will be a match-up of the 2016 Western Conference Quarterfinals. The Warriors come in as the defending NBA Champions on the heels of a dominant playoff run that consisted of Golden State ousting Portland, Utah, and San Antonio in successive sweeps. Golden State would win the rubber match of the previous three NBA Finals when they took down LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Tip-off is scheduled for 10:35 PM and is to be aired on TNT
Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors Betting Overview
The talk of the town is the emergence of NBA super-teams. With Golden State, that superlative would painfully obvious. In 2016, Kevin Durant came to Oakland and put together a MVP performance in the NBA finals. With Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and Andre Iguodala to complement their starting core. The question was who can challenge the Warriors in 2017?
Some perceive that Houston may be that team. The Rockets added star point guard Chris Paul to their roster in the off-season to complement perhaps the best shooter in the game, James Harden. The Rockets were one of the NBA’s best teams overall in 2016 but couldn’t take their franchise to the next level. CP3 was brought in to do just that.
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Key Betting Trends
Being a defending NBA Champion, the Warriors are prone to being overvalued. This is especially true when they are at the Oracle Arena. Nevertheless, the Rockets are 1-4 ATS in their previous five meetings with Golden State.
Public Money
In the early going, we have seen a small initial line on the Warriors with the points as the market has decreased by half of a point since its open.
