The Chicago Bulls (19-35) visit the nation’s capital to play the Washington Wizards (18-33) at Capital One Arena Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET. We analyze Bulls-Wizards odds and lines, with NBA betting advice and tips around the matchup.
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Bulls at Wizards: Key injuries
Bulls
- SG Denzel Valentine (hamstring) doubtful
- SG Tomas Satoransky (ankle) probable
- SG Zach LaVine (neck) probable
- PF Daniel Gafford (ankle) probable
- PG Ryan Arcidiacono (elbow) probable
- PF Lauri Markkanen (pelvis) out
- C Wendell Carter Jr. (ankle) out
- SF Otto Porter Jr. (foot) out
- PG Kris Dunn (knee) out
Wizards
- C Thomas Bryant (foot) out
- PG John Wall (Achilles) out
Bulls at Wizards: Odds, lines, picks and betting tips
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Prediction
Wizards 119, Bulls 113
Moneyline (ML)
The Bulls beat the Wizards in both meetings earlier this season—110-109 in overtime (Dec. 18) and 115-106 (Jan. 15)—extending their current win streak over the Wizards to four games. This Chicago team is a different team than the one that beat Washington just under a month ago. Every Bulls starter from that game is on today’s injury report and two of them are already ruled out against the Wizards. Looking at the Chicago injury report, there is no way I’d recommend betting Bulls (+120) to pull off a small upset. I also am not endorsing a wager on the Wizards (-143) because laying $143 to earn a profit of $100 on a side in a game BetMGM thinks will be close is not good value.
PASS ON THE MONEYLINE.
Line/Against the Spread (ATS)
The Bulls are 6-0 against the spread in the last six meetings in Washington, but the Wizards should have more success with its fifth highest-scoring offense going against Chicago’s 12th-ranked scoring defense. The Bulls have the fifth-lowest scoring offense and go up against Washington’s last-ranked scoring defense. Chicago has given up 115 or more points in their last five games (all of which were straight-up losses and four were ATS losses) and Washington has scored 113-plus in eight of its last nine games.
Ultimately, this comes down to Chicago’s health concerns. I got tired while typing up the Bulls’ injury report, I should have just copied and pasted it into this post. It was while typing that I decided to buck all the recent Bull-Wizards trends and BET WIZARDS -2.5 (-110) to win by at least 3 points.
Over/Under (O/U)
The Bulls and Wizards’ combined Over/Under record is 59-45-1, and their recent games have been high scoring as well. Chicago’s last seven games have all gone Over and Washington’s projected game totals have gone Over in seven of their last nine outings. While I like the Wizards to score against an average Bulls defense, everyone scores on Washington’s NBA worst defense. Expect a somewhat entertaining back and forth shootout from the East’s current 9-and 10-seeds.
TAKE OVER 229.5 (-115).
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