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Indiana Fever -7.5 favorite at Portland Fire: line is 4 points lighter than earlier season number, Barker absent

8/1/2026

Indiana Fever open as 7.5-point favorites at -120 on DraftKings for Friday's 10 p.m. ET tip at Portland's Moda Center, -325 on the moneyline, with the total set at 187.5.

That spread sits four full points below the -11.5 the Fever carried in Portland earlier this season when Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston were both active.

Indiana enters at 18-10; Portland at 11-17, having dropped three straight. What the line shift signals "Probable" injury tags on Clark and Boston account for most of that four-point gap.

Clark leads Indiana in assists per game and ranks as the team's highest usage player. Boston is the third-leading scorer and leading rebounder.

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