{"id":3935,"date":"2009-03-21T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-bulls-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:59:00","slug":"lakers-bulls-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-bulls-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Bulls Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at United Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Pau Gasol poured in 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for a double-double, leading the Lakers to a 114-106 victory over the Warriors on Thursday. The Lakers failed to cover the 13-point spread, and the combined score went UNDER the night&#39;s posted total of 232. <br \/>Kobe Bryant finished with 21 points and six boards. Lamar Odom added 16 points and 12 rebounds for a double-double in that win. <br \/>The Bulls won their third straight by defeating the Thunder 103-96 on Wednesday, as 2-point road underdogs. That game&#39;s 199 points fell UNDER the posted total of 201.5. <br \/>Derrick Rose led the Bulls with 25 points and six rebounds, while John Salmons added 20 points in the win. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Chicago has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Los Angeles: 54-14 SU, 33-34-1 ATS <br \/>Chicago: 32-37 SU, 36-32-1 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Oklahoma City are 7-3<br \/>After playing Golden State are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Washington are 6-4<br \/>After playing Oklahoma City are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 4-6<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games when playing on the road against Chicago<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of the LA Lakers last 10 games when playing Chicago<br \/>LA Lakers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games when playing Chicago<br \/>LA Lakers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Chicago<br \/>Chicago is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Chicago is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chicago&#39;s last 5 games when playing at home against LA Lakers<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Chicago&#39;s last 10 games when playing LA Lakers<br \/>Next up:<br \/>LA Lakers at Oklahoma City, Tuesday, March 24<br \/>Chicago at Washington, Monday, March 23<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at United Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Pau Gasol poured in 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-bulls-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakers-Bulls Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}