The Chicago Bulls survived a scare against the Washington Wizards on Saturday night, winning by one, and they\u2019ll take on another struggling team in the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday.<\/p>\n
New Orleans lost to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, and it\u2019s just 2-15 in the 2025-26 season and has lost nine games in a row.<\/p>\n
Zion Williamson did not play on Saturday, but he\u2019s not on the injury report for Monday\u2019s matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Pelicans have some intriguing young pieces in Derik Queen, Trey Murphy III and Jeremiah Fears, but it doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019ll be enough to even make the play-in tournament in the West.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Bulls are off to a strong start based on expectations behind some All-Star level play from Josh Giddey.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at the odds, my favorite prop bet and a prediction for Monday\u2019s contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook.<\/a><\/p>\n Spread<\/p>\n Moneyline<\/p>\n Total<\/p>\n Bulls Injury ReportPelicans Injury ReportBulls Best NBA Prop Bet<\/p>\n Josh Giddey has been awesome in the 2025-26 season, averaging 20.4 points, 10.1 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game while shooting\u00a0 46.1 percent from the field and 38.6 percent from 3-point range.<\/p>\n Giddey has cleared 18.5 rebounds in four of his last five games since returning from an ankle injury, picking up 18 in the lone game he failed to hit this line. Overall, Giddey has nine games (out of 14) with 19 or more rebounds and assists.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a great bet against a New Orleans team that is 27th in defensive rating, 20th in opponent rebounds per game and 25th in opponent assists per game this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n This line is a little shorter than I expected \u2013 likely because Zion Williamson is set to play \u2013 on Monday night.<\/p>\n Chicago has struggled on the road (3-5 straight up and against the spread), but I can\u2019t pass up the Bulls at a two-possession spread against a New Orleans team that is just 2-15 this season and on a nine-game losing streak.<\/p>\n Plus, New Orleans is down its top defender in Herb Jones in this game.<\/p>\n The Bulls have fallen to 19th in the league in net rating (-2.4), but they are still well ahead of the Pelicans (-12.5), who are in 28th.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll lay the points with Coby White back in the lineup for a Chicago offense that should be able to score at will against a New Orleans team that is allowing 121.4 points per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pick: Bulls -5.5 (-112 at DraftKings)<\/a><\/p>\n Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n Find Peter Dewey’s\u00a0NBA betting record here<\/a>\u00a0(futures included). You can also follow my daily plays on \u00a0BetStamp here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Claim the latest\u00a0DraftKings promo code<\/a>\u00a0offer today. Sign up and win your first $5 bet to get\u00a0$300 in bonus bets instantly +3 months of NBA League Pass.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls survived a scare against the Washington Wizards on Saturday night, winning by one, and they\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-304188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}