{"id":10905,"date":"2010-11-22T20:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10905"},"modified":"2010-11-22T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T01:44:18","slug":"pro-basketball-predictions-chicago-bulls-at-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-predictions-chicago-bulls-at-los-angeles-lakers-10905\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Predictions: Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles Lakers
\nTuesday, 11\/23\/10, 10:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 203
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers center Pau Gasol was perfect from the floor on Sunday night and now gets ready for the Chicago Bulls at the Staples Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago has won five of six games and will be playing its fourth game of a six-game circus road trip on Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center.\u00a0 The Bulls are coming off a 88-83 win over the Mavericks last time out, coming back from a 12-point deficit in the third quarter, with point guard Derrick Rose leading the club with 22 points.\u00a0 The team\u2019s advantage in the game came on the boards, out-rebounding Dallas by a large 59-34 margin, including a career-high 18 boards by forward Taj Gibson and center Joakim Noah added 17.\u00a0 \u201cI can\u2019t go through the motions,\u201d Noah said.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got to keep going after the ball.\u00a0 We fought hard even when we were behind.\u00a0 We\u2019re not a team that gives up.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 7-1 ATS the last three years when playing on three or more days of rest and the NBA lines page shows them as a road underdog.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have been led by Rose for the entire trip, as he scored 33 points in the first two games of the road trip followed by a quiet, but effective performance in Dallas.\u00a0 Chicago has had three days off in Los Angeles before battling the Lakers, which is definitely needed considering the team has lost its last four in this building by an average of 15 points.\u00a0 In order to pull off an upset of the two-time defending champions, the squad must improve upon its free-throw shooting, ranking 29th in the league at 69.8 percent coming into tonight.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has won its last four games by an average of 17.3 points and Sunday night\u2019s 117-89 home victory over the Golden State Warriors certainly helped the cause.\u00a0 The Lakers were in control of the entire game and the comfortable margin allowed head coach Phil Jackson to rest his starters in preparation for tonight.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s very important,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cThe starters have that reserve energy to go to Tuesday if they need it.\u201d\u00a0 Center Pau Gasol was a perfect 10-for-10 from the floor in posting a team-high 28 points along with nine rebounds.\u00a0 Guard Kobe Bryant finished with 20 points, six rebounds and five assists.\u00a0 The team is 7-1 ATS in their last eight games as a favorite of 5.0 to 10.5 points.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are a perfect 3-0 versus the Eastern Conference this year, including a 108-103 win over the Raptors on November 5.\u00a0 Los Angeles swept last season\u2019s series with the Bulls 2-0 for the third consecutive year.\u00a0 This will be the 138th meeting between the team between the two teams with the Lakers leading the all-time series 83-54.\u00a0 They have gone 8-2 against the Bulls in the last 10 meetings and compiled an impressive 15-5 all-time mark under the direction of Jackson in the series.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Bulls are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 road games versus a team with a winning home record, while the Lakers are 4-0 ATS versus the Central Division.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on all the hardcourt action and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday, 11\/23\/10, 10:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 203 Current Total:\u00a0 203 Chicago has won five of six games and will be playing its fourth game of a six-game circus road trip on Tuesday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[174,521,3622,163,67,68,909,939,3624],"class_list":["post-10905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joakim-noah","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-pau-gasol","tag-phil-jackson","tag-staples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10906,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions\/10906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}