Up next for the Lakers: Thursday vs. Denver Nuggets

LAKERS TONIGHT

vs. Denver Nuggets

Time: 7:30.

On the air: TV: TNT; Radio: 710; 1330.

Where: Pepsi Center.

Records: Lakers 8-0; Nuggets 4-4.

Record vs. Nuggets (2009-10): 1-3.

Update: The Lakers have had their problems against the Nuggets in the regular season. Their three losses against them last season were by an average of 13 points. The Lakers lost one of those games in Denver by 26 points. Nuggets All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony still is on the team, but the rumors persist that he wants to be traded.

—Broderick Turner