Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Denver

By Ben Bolch

Nov. 29, 2012 12 AM PT

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: TWC SportsNet, TWC Deportes, ESPN; Radio: 710, 1330.

Records: Lakers 7-8, Nuggets 8-7 through Wednesday.

Record vs. Nuggets (2011-12): 3-1.

Update: This is the first meeting between the teams since the Lakers eliminated the Nuggets in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series last season. Denver was later a participant in the four-team trade that brought Dwight Howard to Los Angeles, as the Nuggets acquired Andre Iguodala and lost Arron Afflalo as part of the deal. Iguodala has been the Nuggets’ leading scorer, averaging 15.3 points per game before Denver’s game against Golden State on Thursday night.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Denver

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