(Today’s installment of your faithful reporter’s quest to prognosticate all 1,230 NBA regular-season games this season.)

Spurs (15-9) at Magic (19-6), 5:05 p.m.
Pick: Magic -3
If things keep up the way they are, this’ll be the first season in many years where an Eastern Conference team is wishing it were in the West (because you know Orlando would rather be the No. 2 seed in the West than No. 3 back East, where they’d have to get past Cleveland).

Suns (15-10) at Trail Blazers (16-10), 7:35 p.m.
Pick: Suns +4.5
One last kick from the old guard.

Yesterday: 6-3
Season record: 183-185-6

– Geoff