{"id":335117,"date":"2025-03-20T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=335117"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:39:19","slug":"bucks-vs-lakers-predictions-march-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/bucks-vs-lakers-predictions-march-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks vs. Lakers SGP predictions March 20: Fade L.A. without Doncic, back Giannis at +375"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-c590ca3e-3de5-4eaf-aed8-af13312d6cfa\">The Milwaukee Bucks are favoured on the road against a depleted Los Angeles Lakers squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7b0165fd-8361-4a58-8740-6b7aecc343a1\"><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: Luka Doncic and LeBron James are out, which makes Milwaukee a compelling moneyline pick. Prop bets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/giannis_antetokounmpo\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/damian_lillard\">Damian Lillard<\/a> round out this +375 wager.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-4cb47de1-09be-4ce3-8bea-1c802f8ace8b\">Check out my Bucks vs. Lakers SGP predictions for March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-49c269d2-68f8-4e2f-9f80-e4b1dc5e1ee0\">Bucks vs. Lakers predictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-4174d2fc-4bdb-4e10-9773-66ac6dd1e0f1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/basketball\/nba\">Full NBA betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nba-injury-report\">NBA injury report<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/top-players\">NBA player stats<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/standings\">NBA standings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-0c49e6d4-4e34-4b8a-98f1-daf35efc80f2\"><strong>Parlay: Bucks moneyline | Giannis 14+ rebounds | Lillard under 3.5 threes (+375)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-bb1acd26-2804-4c70-a9bd-2d4dee04fd91\"><a href=\"cacheembed:111502\">Embed: #111502<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3b833f48-f33c-441b-b81c-d66faa12a95e\"><strong>Bucks moneyline (-235):<\/strong> The absence of LeBron and Doncic takes away from this game&#8217;s star power, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s music to Milwaukee&#8217;s ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3b833f48-f33c-441b-b81c-d66faa12a95e\">The Bucks could use a cupcake win after dropping five of their last seven games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to being without its two best players, L.A. is playing its sixth game in eight nights. I love what Austin Reaves and Dalton Knecht have been doing but can&#8217;t see them willing the Lakers to a victory in this spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These teams met last week with Doncic in the lineup, and Milwaukee won by 20 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-8bc6d160-45ba-4452-af6e-a75b49352425\">NBA SGP picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7d7124ed-fd9a-49c6-a4c5-50861641c023\"><strong>Giannis 14+ rebounds (+125):<\/strong> Most of my parlay&#8217;s value comes from backing Giannis on this plus-money wager \u2014 and I think the Greek Freak will be up to the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7d7124ed-fd9a-49c6-a4c5-50861641c023\">Los Angeles&#8217; starting centre is Jaxson Hayes, who has been good but not great for the Lakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t really blame him, though, as the reclamation project was thrust into the role after L.A. traded away Anthony Davis and failed to acquire another big man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lakers are 22nd in rebounding rate since James went down with an injury and things will only get tougher without Doncic, who is averaging 8.8 boards with L.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giannis had 12 rebounds in 30 minutes against the Lakers last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-68b32fc6-413f-4817-a4a2-aba17fcded8f\"><strong>Lillard under 3.5 threes (-159):<\/strong> Los Angeles&#8217; only route to keeping this game close will be tightening up on defence, so I think Lillard is worth fading at this number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-68b32fc6-413f-4817-a4a2-aba17fcded8f\">The Lakers have been great at defending the perimeter this season, holding opponents to a 34.8% 3-point percentage (third-best in the NBA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-68b32fc6-413f-4817-a4a2-aba17fcded8f\">Lillard is hardly lighting the league on fire from deep, too, with two or fewer 3s in five of his last six games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went 2-for-8 against the Lakers on March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-723a0b15-e794-4641-9435-027fd69ebd26\"><em>Bucks vs. Lakers predictions made at 2:00 p.m. ET 03\/20\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks are favoured on the road against a depleted Los Angeles Lakers squad. The pregame narrative: Luka Doncic and LeBron James are out, which makes Milwaukee a compelling moneyline pick. Prop bets on Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard round out this +375 wager. Check out my Bucks vs. Lakers SGP predictions for March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":335174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-335117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bucks vs. Lakers predictions: March 20 NBA SGP picks | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Bucks vs. Lakers same-game parlay predictions for March 20. 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