The Chicago Bulls continue their Western Conference road trip with a meeting against the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night.
The pregame narrative: The Lakers are one of the best home teams in the NBA, and I feel good about them covering a teased-down spread. Add in prop picks on Nikola Vucevic and Josh Giddey to make a +410 SGP for the game.
Check out my Bulls vs. Lakers SGP predictions for March 22.
Bulls vs. Lakers predictions
Parlay: Lakers -6.5 | Giddey over 17.5 points | Vucevic 15+ points (+410)
Lakers -6.5 (-190): The Lakers are no strangers to winning in Los Angeles.
- Home: 28-8
- Away: 15-18
They’ve played their best ball at Crypto.com Arena all season. That should continue against a middling Bulls team.
Chicago is 30-40 this year and playing its fifth game in a row away from home.
Additionally, Luka Doncic is probable to return to action and LeBron James is a game-time decision. Austin Reaves is also probable after sitting out on Thursday.
With those three in the lineup, the Lakers are the much better team and would be likely to pull away in this one.
NBA SGP picks
Giddey over 17.5 points (-155): Giddey has expanded his game since the all-star break and has transformed into a good scorer.
Take a look at his per-game stats over the 10-game stretch:
- 34.6 minutes/game
- 23.0 points/game
- 53.6 FG%
- 52.3 3PT%
- 10-0 against this line
It’s not just a case of an uptick in volume; his efficiency has been elite.
I don’t expect Giddey to keep this up for his entire career or even the rest of this season, but for now, I’d rather ride with the trend than bet against it, regardless of the matchup.
And it’s not like the Lakers have an elite defence. They sit around the middle of the league with a 114.6 defensive rating.
Vucevic 15+ points (-200): Chicago’s big man has been playing well recently, too.
He had a rough stretch of play in February but has cleared this line in three of the past four games, averaging 19.3 points during that time.
Vucevic is coming off back-to-back 24-point outings in which he shot a combined 19-for-31 from the field and a blistering 8-for-13 from 3-point land.
He still averages 18.7 PPG and has cleared this line in 42 of 62 games this season.
Bulls vs. Lakers predictions made at 3:01 p.m. ET 03/22/2025.
Spencer is a true sports junkie. A graduate of the Sports Journalism program at Centennial College, he first joined NorthStar Gaming as an intern in 2023. He is now a contributing writer. He loves finding the edge to bet on in all sports but has a deep passion for the NBA and UFC. Previous stops include Sportsnet.