Up next for the Lakers: Monday vs. Portland

By Mike Bresnahan

Feb. 19, 2012 12 AM PT

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 710, 1330.

Records: Lakers 18-13, Trail Blazers 17-15.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 0-1.

Update: The Lakers are awful in Portland, as everybody knows, losing 10 of their last 12 games up there. But the Trail Blazers are equally bad against the Lakers at Staples Center, going 2-10 since 2005. Portland has flip-flopped its lineup recently, elevating Nicolas Batum to starter and demoting Wesley Matthews.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

Up next for the Lakers: Monday vs. Portland

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