{"id":653864,"date":"2026-03-12T04:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/653864\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:27:15","slug":"lakers-vs-bulls-discussion-injury-report-how-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/653864\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs Bulls Discussion, Injury Report, How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an excellent victory<\/a> against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Lakers (40-25) look to make it four wins in a row as they host the Chicago Bulls (27-38) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

L.A. is looking to sweep the season series.<\/p>\n

Start time and TV schedule<\/p>\n

When: 7:30 p.m. PT, Mar 12<\/p>\n

Watch: Spectrum Sportsnet<\/p>\n

With exactly a month to go until the playoffs, the Lakers are catching their stride at the right time. Not only are they on a much-needed three-game winning streak, but they\u2019ve done it by beating two very good teams in a row. It\u2019s also happening at the right time because the Western Conference seeding is tighter than ever.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the Lakers have this upcoming game against the Bulls to capitalize on before they face the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets. This season, the Bulls have won only 27 games and are entering this one losers of seven of their last 10. They know their playoff hopes are bleak because it\u2019s also not like there\u2019s a good chance that they make the play-in either. Their current injury report perfectly depicts that.<\/p>\n

That said, this doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019ll be a giveaway game for the purple and gold. Over the years, Chicago has found a way to upset Los Angeles now and then. But given the state of these two teams right now, there\u2019s really no excuse for the Lakers to lose this one.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are one of those handful of teams that are weaker than the Lakers on both offense and defense. The easiest way the Lakers can beat them is to once again overwhelm them with their offense, as they did to the Bulls in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LeBron James remains questionable, but the luxury in this scenario is that he can take his time to recover because Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves have held things down. That should be the case again on Thursday and likely without Marcus Smart<\/a> \u2014 who has been playing a ton of minutes as of late \u2014 expect Luka Kennard and Jake LaRavia to get more burn. It\u2019ll be a great opportunity for the Lakers to continue building on their momentum and rhythm.<\/p>\n

For as long as the Lakers play their usual game and approach this one with the same mindset as their last few, this should be another dub for them.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see if the Lakers can remain perfect in their current five-game home stand on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an excellent victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Lakers (40-25) look to make it four wins in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,64012,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-653864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers-discussion","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116214317630741123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653864","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=653864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}