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2021/22 National Basketball Association (NBA) season
Regular Season
Chicago Bulls v Los Angeles Lakers
United Center
Chicago, USA
Sunday, 19 December 2021
21h30
Chicago Bulls will face off with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (
NBA) match on December 19.
This will be the 159th NBA meeting between the two teams in regular-season games since 1966.
The Lakers have dominated this rivalry having registered 94 wins compared to the Bulls' 64 victories.
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Their last meeting was on 16 November 2021 and the Bulls secured a 121-103 victory over the Lakers at the Staples Center.
The Bulls find themselves in third-place on the Eastern Conference standings having recorded 17 victories and 10 defeats.
They claimed a 109-97 win over Denver Nuggets their last home game on December 7 and it was their second successive win at the United Center.
While the Lakers are placed sixth on the Western Conference standings having registered 15 victories and 13 defeats.
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The Lakers secured a 116-95 over Oklahoma Thunders in their last away match on December 11 and it was their third win in their last four games on the road.
"You know it's easy to just say, 'Hey, you guys are not playing hard enough,' you know? But the reality is you have to be direct and precise in terms of what you're talking about," Lakers coach Frank Vogel said after their win over Thunders.
"You guys are not running the floor hard enough. You're not sprinting back in transition hard enough. You're not crashing the glass hard enough. You're not screening and getting out of screens fast enough. You're not cutting.
"All these things that just fall in the bucket of effort and playing harder than your opponent, you've got to be precise with those things. You've got to coach those things hard. And that's what we're doing with our group. We're making progress."
Head-to-Head (Last Five NBA Matches)
Matches - 5
Bulls - 2
Lakers - 3
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