Portland Trail Blazers vs Chicago Bulls Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 02/26/26

Portland hasn’t had the best of times after the restart, winning just 1 of their 3 games. The only win came against the shorthanded Suns in a low scoring affair on the road. On Thursday the Trail Blazers are in Chicago, facing a team that’s lost 10 games in a row. However, the Bulls did win the first meeting of the season between the two sides back in mid-November 122-121 in Portland. In fact, Portland has recorded just 1 win in 8 meetings vs this team, while against East opponents in general they’re just 1-5 SU in 6 such games. Deni Avdija remains sidelined with his back issue, interim head coach Tiago Splitter will have to dig deep into his bench to find points here.

I’m struggling to find any positives to say about the Chicago Bulls at this time. They’ve lost all hope of making it into the play-in tournament, switching directions completely before the trade deadline and opting to tank the rest of the season. With 4 losses after the break things are going according to plan, even the return of Josh Giddey hasn’t motivated this unit to start playing better. With back-to-back home games of just 99 points scored vs New York and Charlotte, it’s quite evident that they simply don’t have the capacity to put up a large volume of points. But who knows, maybe that changes against the 20th ranked defense of the Blazers which allows 113.5 points per 100 possessions this season?

Even though Portland is the favorite here, something tells me the Bulls won’t be without a chance. Yes, they’ve looked bad lately, but all streaks have to come to an end at some point. As we saw with the Sacramento Kings the other day, the Bulls cannot keep losing forever. With much tougher opponents coming their way in the days and weeks ahead, this might be their best opportunity to put an end to this losing streak. I’ll take the Bulls in this one.

Portland Trail Blazers vs Chicago Bulls Predictions: Bulls +4 is available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.