Road favorites of 2.5 or more if road winning percentage less than opponent home winning percentage is 371-283-16. If they are laying at least 4.5 the winning percentage is even better at 205-136-5.

As a general rule of thumb, scheduling benefits the home team if there is an unrested versus rested. However when the opposite is true and we have an unrested home versus rested road especially is the home team has less talent and likely depth (a home underdog of at least 1.5) the home team is 237-312-8. This says to fade Phoenix.

The home team back-to-back and three games in four days, road team rested as long as home team not laying double-digits the home team is 431-528-15.

The Thunder have best net rating last seven games by 15 led by No. 1 offense getting 112.7 points per 100 possessions. In their last 10 games the Suns net rating is -3.7.