Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Portland

By Mike Bresnahan

Dec. 28, 2012 12 AM PT

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Lakers 14-15, Trail Blazers 14-13.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 0-1.

Update: The Lakers historically do horribly in road games against Portland but have no problem with the Trail Blazers at Staples Center. The Lakers have won 12 of their last 14 home games against Portland, a marked contrast to their 4-17 mark in Portland since 2002. Portland won at home against the Lakers, 116-106, on Oct. 31, with Steve Nash leaving in the third quarter because of a small fracture in his lower left leg, an injury that sidelined him for 24 games.

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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: Friday vs. Portland

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