{"id":335515,"date":"2025-03-22T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=335515"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:13:56","slug":"bulls-vs-lakers-predictions-march-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/bulls-vs-lakers-predictions-march-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls vs. Lakers SGP predictions March 22: Tail Vucevic and Giddey at +410"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-c590ca3e-3de5-4eaf-aed8-af13312d6cfa\">The Chicago Bulls continue their Western Conference road trip with a meeting against the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7b0165fd-8361-4a58-8740-6b7aecc343a1\"><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/nikola_vucevic\">Nikola Vucevic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/josh_giddey\">Josh Giddey<\/a> to make a +410 SGP for the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-4cb47de1-09be-4ce3-8bea-1c802f8ace8b\">Check out my Bulls vs. Lakers SGP predictions for March 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-49c269d2-68f8-4e2f-9f80-e4b1dc5e1ee0\">Bulls 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: Lakers -6.5 | Giddey over 17.5 points | Vucevic 15+ points (+410)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-bb1acd26-2804-4c70-a9bd-2d4dee04fd91\"><a href=\"cacheembed:111596\">Embed: #111596<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3b833f48-f33c-441b-b81c-d66faa12a95e\"><strong>Lakers -6.5 (-190):<\/strong> The Lakers are no strangers to winning in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Home: <\/strong>28-8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Away:<\/strong> 15-18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3b833f48-f33c-441b-b81c-d66faa12a95e\">They&#8217;ve played their best ball at Crypto.com Arena all season. That should continue against a middling Bulls team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago is 30-40 this year and playing its fifth game in a row away from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With those three in the lineup, the Lakers are the much better team and would be likely to pull away in this one.<\/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>Giddey over 17.5 points (-155):<\/strong> Giddey has expanded his game since the all-star break and has transformed into a good scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7d7124ed-fd9a-49c6-a4c5-50861641c023\">Take a look at his per-game stats over the 10-game stretch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>34.6 minutes\/game<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>23.0 points\/game<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>53.6 FG%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>52.3 3PT%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10-0 against this line<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just a case of an uptick in volume; his efficiency has been elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Giddey to keep this up for his entire career or even the rest of this season, but for now, I&#8217;d rather ride with the trend than bet against it, regardless of the matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s not like the Lakers have an elite defence. They sit around the middle of the league with a 114.6 defensive rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-68b32fc6-413f-4817-a4a2-aba17fcded8f\"><strong>Vucevic 15+ points (-200):<\/strong> Chicago&#8217;s big man has been playing well recently, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-68b32fc6-413f-4817-a4a2-aba17fcded8f\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He still averages 18.7 PPG and has cleared this line in 42 of 62 games this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-723a0b15-e794-4641-9435-027fd69ebd26\"><em>Bulls vs. Lakers predictions made at 3:01 p.m. ET 03\/22\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":335524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[83,12],"class_list":["post-335515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls vs. Lakers predictions: March 22 NBA SGP picks | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Bulls vs. Lakers same-game parlay predictions for March 22. 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