{"id":384928,"date":"2025-12-01T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=384928"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:40:55","slug":"suns-vs-lakers-sgp-picks-and-predictions-december-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/suns-vs-lakers-sgp-picks-and-predictions-december-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns vs. Lakers SGP predictions Dec. 1: LeBron should guide L.A. to eighth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers haven&#8217;t lost in nearly three weeks, and they&#8217;ll look to stay in the win column on Monday night in a home matchup against the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: L.A. played last night without LeBron James, who should be back in the mix for this game. Phoenix is just 4-5 on the road this year and is a road underdog despite having a rest advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Suns vs. Lakers SGP picks for Dec. 1, featuring LeBron and Collin Gillespie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"acq_only\"><strong>-&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNjY1NzMyJnA9MzExMjU%3D\">Join NorthStar Bets to start betting on the NBA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Suns vs. Lakers SGP picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parlay: Lakers -5.5 | LeBron over 6.5 assists | Gillespie over 2.5 threes (+475)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Lakers -5.5<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>(-113)<\/strong>: As a team, the Lakers are playing on zero rest tonight. But LeBron sat out the front end of the back-to-back, and his expected return tonight should be a boost for the home team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With or without a rested LeBron, though, L.A. is playing well enough that I&#8217;d probably want to back this squad regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lakers have won seven in a row, including a 12-point win over the Pelicans at Crypto.com Arena last night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Six of L.A.&#8217;s seven wins during the streak have come by 10+ points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lakers went 11-2 in November with a +5.6 net rating (ninth in the NBA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"acq_only\"><strong>-&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNjY1NzMyJnA9MzExMjU%3D\">Build your own NBA SGP at NorthStar Bets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"product_only\">The Suns have dropped three straight against playoff-calibre teams (Rockets, Thunder, Nuggets) by a combined 44 points. They&#8217;re having a solid year so far, but they don&#8217;t have many impressive wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll side with a Lakers squad that is 7-3 ATS at home and covered this number in both home games vs. Phoenix last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"product_only\"><a href=\"cacheembed:121767\">Embed: #121767<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NBA SGP legs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>LeBron over 6.5 assists<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (-148):<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> He&#8217;s only four games into his 23rd season, but so far, LeBron has taken a back seat as a scorer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His passing productivity hasn&#8217;t gone anywhere, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in his eighth year with L.A., LeBron is averaging 8.1 assists per game. He has 33 assists in his first four matchups of the 2025-26 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"acq_only\"><strong>-> <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNjY1NzMyJnA9MzExMjU%3D\">Want to bet on LeBron James? Check out NorthStar Bets&#8217; NBA prop markets<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The King is averaging 12.3 potential assists, per NBA.com, which means passes that lead directly to a shot. That&#8217;s high enough to put this assist total in play on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeBron is 3-1 vs. this prop and finished with six feeds in the outlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has eight-plus assists in six straight games vs. the Suns dating back to December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Gillespie over 2.5 threes <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>(<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>-115)<\/strong>: Gillespie is on a scorching run from beyond the arc, and I expect more of the same against the Lakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lakers allow corner 3s on  11.4% of opponents&#8217; shot attempts, which is the third-highest rate in the NBA, per Cleaning the Glass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On those corner 3s, opponents are shooting 40.1% \u2014 seventh-highest in the NBA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"acq_only\"><strong>-> <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNjY1NzMyJnA9MzExMjU%3D\">Bet on today&#8217;s 9-game NBA slate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gillespie is a killer from the corner, going 14-for-20 (70.0%) from there so far this season. It&#8217;s a small sample, but he should have opportunities to add to that total against L.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The undrafted guard out of Villanova, now in his third season, is shooting 43.9% overall from deep. He has cashed this bet in seven consecutive games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Suns vs. Lakers picks made at 9:54 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2025. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"acq_only\"><strong>-&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNDU3MiZsPTEzNjY1NzMyJnA9MzExMjU%3D\">Sign up to NorthStar Bets today<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"thestar\">Looking to get started? <a href=\"https:\/\/online.northstarbets.ca\/page?key=ej0xMzUyNzQxMyZsPTEzNTI3NDExJnA9MjMyNDM%3D\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers haven&#8217;t lost in nearly three weeks, and they&#8217;ll look to stay in the win column on Monday night in a home matchup against the Phoenix Suns. The pregame narrative: L.A. played last night without LeBron James, who should be back in the mix for this game. Phoenix is just 4-5 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":384929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suns vs. Lakers picks: SGP predictions Dec. 1 | The Boost<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Suns vs. Lakers SGP picks for Dec. 1. 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