NBA ROUNDUP Sunday's game

Lakers 82, Bulls 72
LOS ANGELES -- Lamar Odom scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help Los Angeles beat Chicago in a sloppy game. Andrew Bynum added 12 points and 13 rebounds for Los Angeles before fouling out. Kobe Bryant scored 18 points, matching his lowest total in eight games since returning from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July. Last season's NBA scoring champ shot 5-for-14 after scoring 31 points in Friday's 107-100 win against Toronto, but the Lakers still managed to win their third in a row and hand Chicago its fourth straight loss. Andres Nocioni scored a career-high 30 points for the Bulls. The third-year forward, who missed his first nine shots in Friday's 110-83 loss at San Antonio and came in with a 10.7 scoring average, made five of his first seven against the Lakers and finished 11-for-21 overall. Los Angeles used a 12-1 run to open up a 74-63 lead with 4:47 remaining. Nocioni ended Chicago's shooting drought with an eight-footer and Ben Gordon hit a 3-pointer to narrow the gap to 74-70 with 3:12 left. But that was as close as the Bulls got, as the Lakers fueled a game-ending 8-2 spurt with free throws.
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