Los Angeles Lakers @ Chicago Bulls

19-4, 4-2 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	31	23	18	24	96
Bulls CHI	31	17	25	14	87

Chicago BullsBullsCHI

8-15, 6-5 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Pau GasolP. Gasol
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Derek FisherD. Fisher
bench
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Josh PowellJ. Powell
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Adam MorrisonA. Morrison
Didier Ilunga-MbengaD. Ilunga-Mbenga
Shannon BrownS. Brown
Jordan FarmarJ. Farmar
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
39	10	3-8	0-0	4-4	16	2	2	0	2	4	12	2	0
45	9	3-14	1-7	2-2	5	4	0	1	0	0	5	1	+12
39	42	15-26	1-5	11-15	2	3	8	3	0	0	2	2	-3
25	11	5-10	0-0	1-1	3	2	2	0	1	1	2	2	+10
24	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	-8
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	9	4-9	0-3	1-1	8	3	0	1	1	1	7	4	+8
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	9	4-4	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	+13
16	6	2-6	1-3	1-2	2	3	0	2	0	0	2	1	+13
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	96	36-79	4-20	20-25	37	22	14	9	5	6	31	15
		46%	20%	80%

Chicago Bulls

starters
Luol DengL. Deng
John SalmonsJ. Salmons
Brad MillerB. Miller
Joakim NoahJ. Noah
Derrick RoseD. Rose
bench
Tyrus ThomasT. Thomas
James JohnsonJ. Johnson
Taj GibsonT. Gibson
Jerome JamesJ. James
Aaron GrayA. Gray
Jannero PargoJ. Pargo
Lindsey HunterL. Hunter
Kirk HinrichK. Hinrich
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
39	21	10-20	1-2	0-0	6	1	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2
29	2	1-5	0-3	0-0	4	0	0	2	0	1	3	4	-9
36	15	6-11	0-2	3-4	8	6	2	2	2	2	6	3	-7
37	11	4-16	0-0	3-4	20	2	3	2	6	14	6	4	+4
33	21	9-22	0-0	3-4	4	6	2	0	0	0	4	2	+8
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	-6
23	6	2-5	0-0	2-4	6	1	0	0	2	3	3	2	-15
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0-4	0-1	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	-7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	11	5-11	1-2	0-0	0	3	2	2	3	0	0	1	-15
	87	37-96	2-11	11-16	51	22	14	9	14	22	29	20
		39%	18%	69%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

LAL win 2-0

Bulls
93
Lakers
108

Game 1

20/11

Lakers
96
Bulls
87

Game 2

16/12

United Center

1:00 AM, 16 December 2009

Chicago, IL

Attendance: 21,416

Referees:
Tony Brown
Dan Crawford
David Guthrie

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	19	8	.704	-	L1
Phoenix	15	13	.536	4.5	L1
Golden State	15	15	.500	5.5	W2
LA Clippers	7	21	.250	12.5	W1
Sacramento	7	22	.241	13	W1

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	23	6	.793	-	W2
Cleveland	16	14	.533	7.5	W1
Chicago	13	15	.464	9.5	W3
Milwaukee	11	18	.379	12	L3
Indiana	6	23	.207	17	L5

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Los Angeles Lakers @ Chicago Bulls

Regular Season Series

LAL win 2-0

Game Information

2025-26 Pacific Standings

2025-26 Central Standings

NBA News

Wizards F Cam Whitmore diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis

Brown gains, LeBron sinks in fourth NBA 2K26 ratings update

Hawks reserve center N'Faly Dante (ACL) out remainder of season