{"id":655913,"date":"2026-03-13T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/655913\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:26:34","slug":"los-angeles-hosts-chicago-following-buzelis-41-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/655913\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles hosts Chicago following Buzelis’ 41-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls<\/a> (27-38, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (33-32, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Inglewood, California; Friday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Clippers -12.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n

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

The Clippers are 18-13 in home games. Los Angeles is the worst team in the Western Conference recording just 40.8 rebounds per game led by Kawhi Leonard<\/a> averaging 6.4.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 11-20 in road games. Chicago is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 45.1 rebounds per game led by Jalen Smith<\/a> averaging 7.0.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are shooting 48.3% from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points higher than the 47.2% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls average 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Clippers give up.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Bulls defeated the Clippers 138-110 in their last matchup on Jan. 21. Buzelis led the Bulls with 21 points, and John Collins<\/a> led the Clippers with 23 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is shooting 50.3% and averaging 28.3 points for the Clippers. Darius Garland<\/a> is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Josh Giddey<\/a> is scoring 17.7 points per game and averaging 8.4 rebounds for the Bulls. Buzelis is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 121.4 points, 41.2 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 10.2 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 51.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.7 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: Clippers: Darius Garland: out (toe), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), John Collins: out (arm).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Isaac Okoro<\/a>: day to day (knee), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jaden Ivey: out (knee), Guerschon Yabusele: day to day (foot), 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 Clippers (33-32, eighth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,3086,329,559,791,78812,3891,2291,6971,965,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,973,1407,6,6140,10948,4104],"class_list":["post-655913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-bradley-beal","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-clippers","tag-darius-garland","tag-event_preview","tag-isaac-okoro","tag-jalen-smith","tag-john-collins","tag-josh-giddey","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-matas-buzelis","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-patrick-williams","tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser","tag-zach-collins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116221154654776058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655913","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=655913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}