CHICAGO — Just over 24 hours before their road game against the Chicago Bulls, the Lakers went through the emotional experience of clinching a last-second road victory over the Indiana Pacers when it looked like a loss was on the horizon.

On Thursday night at the United Center, they experienced what it feels like to be on the opposite side of a game-winning shot, with Josh Giddey’s half-court buzzer-beater giving the Bulls a 119-117 victory over the Lakers.

“Devastation,” coach JJ Redick said. “It’s a hell of a way to lose a basketball game.”

The Lakers appeared to be on the verge of picking up back-to-back road wins for the first time since late February, but the Bulls outscored them 44-26 in the final quarter to beat the Lakers for the second time in six days after blowing them out in Los Angeles last Saturday.

“It’s hard to lose like that,” said Luka Doncic (25 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists). “We basically had the game in hand and when you lose like this, it’s hard. Especially on a back-to-back when we fought hard.”

After being one of the league’s worst third-quarter teams over the last couple of weeks, the Lakers flipped the script for at least one night, beating the Bulls 32-17 in the third to take a 91-75 lead going into the fourth.

“Third quarter was our best defensive quarter,” Doncic said. “Just everybody was flying around, everybody played with a lot of energy.”

But Chicago cut its deficit to four (107-103) after Nikola Vucevic (14 points, eight rebounds) knocked down a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer with just over two minutes left.

Vucevic’s 3-pointer was the Bulls’ seventh in an eight-minute stretch when Chicago outscored the Lakers 25-11.

The Bulls shot 43.2% from beyond the arc (19 of 44) for the game, just five days after making 46.3% of their 3s (19 of 41) against the Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. Chicago made 66 of its previous 153 3-point attempts (43.1%) entering Thursday.

“Statistics doesn’t show for the season, but they’ve been they’ve been cashing,” said LeBron James, who had 17 points, 12 assists and five rebounds.

Jaxson Hayes (19 points, eight rebounds) helped give the Lakers a bigger cushion with a dunk assisted by Doncic before tipping in a putback layup off a Doncic missed 3-pointer to give the Lakers a 111-104 lead with 1:28 left.

The Lakers maintained a three-point lead after Austin Reaves (game-high 30 points) banked in an 8-footer to give the Lakers a 113-110 lead with 27 seconds left.

After Giddey air-balled a floater over James’ outstretched right arm to contest his shot, the Lakers’ lead grew to 115-110 after Reaves made a pair of free throws with the Bulls intentionally fouling.

Patrick Williams hit a corner 3-pointer after Chicago’s timeout to cut the Lakers’ lead to 115-113 with 10.3 seconds left after James was caught in no-man’s land and contested Williams’ shot late. James appeared to be helping on the inbound pass to Vucevic after defensive miscommunication led to Reaves guarding Vucevic, who assisted Williams on the 3 that cut the Bulls’ deficit to two.

And after a bad inbound pass from James to Reaves that was stolen by Giddey, the Bulls guard assisted Coby White on another 3-pointer, giving the Bulls a 116-115 lead with 6.1 seconds left.

“We still put ourselves in position to win,” James said. “Horrible turnover by myself. Bad miscommunication play before that.”

Reaves said of the turnover: “We were walking out of our huddle and they were like, ‘If we could get it in quick ...’ to me and Bron, ‘Get it in quick.’ We knew they were going to trap and try to force a turnover, but then eventually they had to foul. I wanted to get the ball and go to the free-throw line.

“The miscommunication might’ve been I was trying to hold him off instead of popping to the ball. I take just as much as responsibility as I’m sure he did. Hopefully we’ll talk about it and figure it out so next time that won’t happen.”

Reaves drove around Williams for a layup to give the Lakers a 117-116 lead with 3.3 seconds left, but the Lakers left United Center in defeat after Giddey’s 46-foot game-winner.

The Bulls shot 11 of 14 from beyond the arc in the fourth.

The Lakers (44-29) stayed at the No. 4 spot in the Western Conference standings because the Ja Morant-less Memphis Grizzlies (44-29) also dropped a road game to the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night.