Los Angeles Lakers visit Utah Jazz. Lakers have not played a regular-season game yet, while Jazz are 0-1 and have gone L-L-W-L-L in their last 5.
The model leans toward Lakers: about 70% to win, with a projected score of Los Angeles Lakers 117, Utah Jazz 111. These are model estimates built from past results, not guarantees.
The teams have met 8 times in our recent records. Lakers lead 7-1, and the average margin has been 7.7 points in favor of Lakers.
On the injury report, Jusuf Nurkic (UTA), Trey Alexander (UTA), Tony Bradley (UTA), and Collin Sexton (LAL) are listed as out.