NBA Saturday: Greg Frank picks the Thunder vs Cavaliers and tests his playoff bubble team theory

2-0 Friday, 63-60-1 overall.

Thunder (-6.5) @ Cavaliers (212.5)

Pick: Cavaliers +6.5

The Oklahoma City Thunder are exactly the team you should look to fade laying this many points. For just the fifth time this season, the Thunder are favored by at least 6.5 points. They are 0-4 ATS in the previous four games. We’ve mentioned before that teams on the playoff fringe like the Thunder are good underdogs and bad favorites. They get up for big games with chances to prove themselves but are on the playoff bubble for a few reasons and one of them is because they play down to inferior competition. Sure enough, Oklahoma City won outright as a short road underdog on Thursday at the Riverwalk against the Spurs. Now we get a Cleveland team that’s actually won three straight at home and covered four of its last five games overall catching six and a half points? Sign us up.

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