Chicago Bulls vs. Los Angeles Lakers Game Outlook
The Chicago Bulls will be looking for the season sweep when they host the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. It was some amazing basketball from Jimmy Butler that powered the Bulls to victory in Los Angeles 10 days ago, and he’ll be looking to do it again.
It seems like it is awfully early in the season, still in the first full month of the regular season, but the Lakers are playing Chicago for the second and final time this year. Unless the two teams meet in the NBA Finals. Wouldn’t that be a laugh out loud moment?
Not much has changed since the two teams last faced off. The Lakers are 2-3, including a whooping courtesy of the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. The Bulls have been less active, coming off that ugly Circus Trip that saw them play road games against Portland, Utah, the Clippers and Lakers, Denver and, finally, Philadelphia.
Chicago finished that trip 4-2, which matches their best post-Michael Jordan Circus trip. After beating Los Angeles 118-110, they still couldn’t figure out a way to win in Denver and then cruised past the hapless Sixers who were resting Joel Embiid.
It’s been a deserved extended break for the Bulls. They last played on Friday night in Philly, so it ended up being a total of four consecutive days off. However, they’ll be right back into the grinder after this game, playing four games in five days over the weekend and into next week.
Let’s take a quick look at some of the things, and players, to watch for on Wednesday night.