*** Los Angeles Lakers @ Houston Rockets ***

Since the Rockets wisely put Carmelo Anthony on the shelf, they have played six home games with Chris Paul in the lineup.  Here are the results...

defeated the Pacers 115-103

defeated the Warriors 107-86

defeated the Kings 132-112

defeated the Pistons 126-124

defeated the Bulls 121-105

defeated the Blazers 111-104

That's an average margin of victory of 13 points per game.  The one obvious non-cover in there is the Detroit game.  The Rockets were laying 8.5 that night and enjoying a 113-99 lead in the 4th quarter when Blake Griffin got silly.  He shot five 3-pointers in the last five minutes and made ALL of them.  He added four free throws and the Pistons sank seven threes overall in the last 5:00 to easily backdoor that game.

The Lakers are beginning a 4-game road trip tonight.  For whatever it's worth, they are 0-3 SU & ATS this season in the first game of at least a 2-gme road trip, losing in San Antonio, Orlando, and San Antonio again. 

im not taking sides here,i dont really mind questions or opposing viewpoints but the thing is you definitely know basketball so i assume you would know it would be a combination of tucker(mainly),gerald green and eric gordon..but if the question is who is stopping lebron well the most likely answer is the same as the last 15 years-NOBODY..but thats not necessarily crucial to the chances of covering any one particular game is it??i mean i dunno lebrons career spread covering record but no doubt there are shi.t-loads of both wins and losses...and in both regards hardly anyone ever stopped or slowed the guy.....i just reckon you should elaborate a bit more when chucking out some input or contrary view...but hey,thats just another worthless opinion of a random dude on the interweb....so take it or leave it.