Free NBA Basketball Predictions for March 14

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Event: (557) Denver Nuggets at (558) Los Angeles Lakers: Spread

Sport/League: NBA

Date/Time: March 14, 2026 8:40 PM EDT

Free NBA Basketball Pick Today: Denver Nuggets -3.0 (-110)

These Western Conference foes just met last week with Denver earning a 120-113 home win. Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray each finished with 28 points in the wire-to-wire effort. Both teams are on equal rest after playing on Thursday. Los Angeles should be close to full strength for this one with only Maxi Kleber listed on the injury report. The same is true in Denver where the Nuggets went from one of the ugliest injury reports in the league in January, to nearly a clean bill of health in March. Peyton Watson is the only Nugget listed on the injury report, and he is expected to return within the next few days. This looks like a nice sell-high spot on the Lakers, in our opinion. First, let's take a look at who the Lakers have beaten during this current eight-game run: Golden State (without Curry), Sacramento, New Orleans, Indiana and Chicago. We're not racing to congratulate Los Angeles for beating those teams. We still need a larger sample size of Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves playing together for an extended period. Most of these wins have come without James in the lineup. Reaves and Doncic clearly have some chemistry, but when the three of them are on the court at the same time, the Lakers' offense has looked clunky. Denver is coming off a pair of big wins over the Rockets and Spurs to help the Nuggets' place in the Western Conference pecking order. We are comfortable laying this number with the Nuggets.

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