{"id":652222,"date":"2026-03-11T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652222\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:42:24","slug":"buzelis-leads-chicago-against-los-angeles-after-41-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652222\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzelis leads Chicago against Los Angeles after 41-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls<\/a> (27-38, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (40-25, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago visits the Los Angeles Lakers after Matas Buzelis<\/a> scored 41 points in the Bulls’ 130-124 overtime win over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have gone 21-12 at home. Los Angeles ranks eighth in the Western Conference with 14.5 fast break points per game led by LeBron James<\/a> averaging 5.7.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 11-20 in road games. Chicago is 16-21 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Lakers make 49.8% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.6 percentage points higher than the Bulls have allowed to their opponents (47.2%). The Bulls average 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Lakers give up.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Lakers won the last matchup 129-118 on Jan. 27, with Luka Doncic<\/a> scoring 46 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Doncic is averaging 32.5 points, 7.9 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 1.5 steals for the Lakers. Austin Reaves is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Buzelis is averaging 15.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Collin Sexton<\/a> is averaging 14.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 6-4, averaging 114.6 points, 41.3 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 8.3 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 3-7, averaging 109.4 points, 47.6 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 7.4 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Jaxson Hayes<\/a>: out (back), Maxi Kleber: out (back), LeBron James: out (elbow).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jaden Ivey: out (knee), Zach Collins<\/a>: out for season (toe), Patrick Williams<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Collin Sexton: day to day (leg).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (27-38, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (40-25, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,1585,78812,32,185,150,368,973,1407,6,6140,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-652222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chicago-bulls","7":"tag-basketball","8":"tag-bulls","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bulls","11":"tag-chicagobulls","12":"tag-collin-sexton","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-jaxson-hayes","15":"tag-lebron-james","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-luka-doncic","18":"tag-matas-buzelis","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-patrick-williams","22":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116209185172200978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}