SportsLine's model has simulated the Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers matchup 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Saturday

The Los Angeles Lakers will face the Golden State Warriors on Saturday in San Francisco. It will be a Pacific Division showdown at Oracle Arena as we continue our NBA odds series and make a Lakers-Warriors prediction and pick.

The 76ers can’t stop anyone amid this disaster of a season. Philadelphia has the ninth-worst defensive net rating in the league just over halfway through the season, but that undersells just how bad its been lately.

It’s been a tough season for the Golden State Warriors. After a promising 12-3 start, injuries caught up and negatively affected their depth. As a result, the team has now fallen to the 11th seed after becoming the top team in the West at one point in the season.

With the Jimmy Butler situation still uncomfortable and unresolved, the Memphis Grizzlies are "lurking" and have "been in contact" with the Miami Heat, according to ESPN's Tim Bon

And don’t forget, this past offseason, the Warriors lost a $30 million chunk of salary when they jettisoned Chris Paul strictly for luxury tax avoidance. The NBA owners wanted a system that brought big-market, big-spending teams like the Warriors to heel, and they received it.

Even though he's about to turn 37 years old this season, Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry remains the biggest draw in the NBA. No player in the league can pull in a crowd like Curry, create social media highlights,