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Memphis Grizzlies vs Los Angeles Lakers Prediction, Odds and Picks for Sunday, 01/04/26

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Grizzlies vs Lakers Pickswise Expert Predictions

Point Spread Pick
MEM Grizzlies +6.5(-110)

It’s a 2nd night of a baseball series between the Grizzlies and Lakers who meet for the 2nd time in 2 days. Memphis held things close for decent chunks of Friday’s game, but they were behind for 86% of that game, with the Lakers lead ballooning to as much as 15 points at one point. Can we trust this team to make the necessary adjustments ahead of Sunday’s rematch? It all starts with the effort on the defensive end where the Grizz have allowed 139 and 128 points in their last 2 games, efforts like that won’t get them too far in today’s NBA. Morant and co. are once again 6.5-point underdogs, they’ve really struggled in this match-up losing 5 games in a row.

Luka and LeBron carried the majority of the Lakers scoring in that win on Friday, combining for 65 points. It wasn’t all bread and butter for the Lakers though, as a team they committed 20 turnovers with the aforementioned duo being responsible for 10 of those. That’s definitely something to think about ahead of Sunday’s game, head coach JJ Redick will need to re-invent his team’s approach on the offensive end if they want to sweep the regular season series. LA hasn’t been as reliable covering the spread lately, doing so just twice in 5 games.

Doncic’s numbers have been exceptional against Memphis in recent meetings, that’s the only reason why LA won that game on Friday. Pride is at stake for the Grizz here after they lost both meetings this season, they’ve kept both of those games relatively close. More often than not teams will split these so-called baseball series, I’ll side with the underdog Grizzlies to cover the spread here.

Memphis Grizzlies vs LA Lakers Predictions: Grizzlies +6.5 is available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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