NBA Betting Preview: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Clippers Game 5 Odds

The Golden State Warriors are not the only team that has been hit hard by a key injury. The Los Angeles Clippers suffered two in their 98-84 Game 4 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, with point guard Chris Paul and power forward Blake Griffin going down.

Paul's broken hand and Griffin's quad injury are expected to keep them both out for the rest of the series, turning the Blazers into three-point road betting favorites in Game 5 after opening as 2.5-point dogs at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

Los Angeles hung tough in Game 4 after losing Paul in the third quarter, trailing by just two points heading into the fourth. But Portland started to pull away just before Griffin was injured with under six minutes remaining in the game.

The Blazers turned a four-point lead into a 12-point cushion within a three-minute stretch in the middle of the fourth en route to outscoring the Clippers 32-20 in the fourth.

Portland was an underdog in each of the previous four games in the playoff series and finds itself favored against Los Angeles for the first time since April 1, 2015. The Blazers lost that game 126-122 as three-point home chalk and dropped six of seven against the Clippers before winning the last two at home, according to the Odds Shark NBA Database.

They were also favored at the Staples Center about a month earlier and beat the Clippers 98-93, one of their four wins and five covers in the past 10 meetings overall.

Without top scorers Paul and Griffin in the starting lineup, Los Angeles will turn to Austin Rivers and Jeff Green. Those are obviously two huge drop-offs in terms of talent, which should give Portland a significant edge in the backcourt with Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum.

In Game 4, it was Al-Farouq Aminu, though, who scored a career-high 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the Blazers, who lost the first two games in Los Anglees by an average of 20.5 points and failed to come close to covering either on the betting lines at the sportsbooks.

The under has cashed in every game of the series so far along with nine of the last 11.