{"id":401617,"date":"2026-07-17T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401617\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:42:17","slug":"lakers-beat-bulls-in-summer-league-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401617\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers beat Bulls in Summer League action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2277377\" class=\"wp-image-2277377 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lakers-scaled-e1784250497281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1553\" height=\"875\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2277377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cameron Carr contributed to the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Download the NBA App<\/a><br aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2026 Summer League<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783302313_153_logo.png\" alt=\"Los Angeles Lakers logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Lakers 105, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784252537_58_logo.png\" alt=\"Chicago Bulls logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Bulls 82: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lal-vs-chi-1522600056\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lal-vs-chi-1522600056\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game Detail<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 An impressive collective team shooting effort and dominant mid-game play propelled the Los Angeles Lakers to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lal-vs-chi-1522600056\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">105-82<\/a> win over the Chicago Bulls in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Summer League<\/a> matchup at Thomas and Mack Center on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers picked up steam after a defense-centric first quarter, outscoring the Bulls by a 64-38 margin in the middle periods to win going away. The Lakers shot 49.2% overall, and their second unit outscored Chicago\u2019s by a 52-34 margin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers boasted six double-digit scorers, led by a 16-point effort from Chris Ma\u00f1on. Cameron Carr, the No. 24 pick from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/draft\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Draft<\/a>,\u00a0followed with 14 points and Arthur Kaluma matched Carr\u2019s scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adou Thiero and Jon Elmore generated matching 11-point contributions. Zhaire Smith, the 2018 16th overall pick trying to find his way back to the NBA for the first time since the 2019-20 season, also poured in 11 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 overall pick in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/draft\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Draft<\/a> Caleb Wilson led the Bulls with 21 points and eight rebounds. Tobe Awaka and Boo Buie posted 12 points apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls are back in action Friday for a consolation game against the Cleveland Cavaliers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/chi-vs-cle-1522600062\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 ET, ESPN<\/a>), while the Lakers return to the floor in a semifinal playoff game Saturday against a to-be-determined opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Carr contributed to the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 win. \u2022 Download the NBA App\u2022 2026 Summer League Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21126,48,52,51,1415,47,50,49,155684],"class_list":["post-401617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bulls","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-summer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}