Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Portland

By Mike Bresnahan

Feb. 21, 2013 12 AM PT

VS. PORTLAND.

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Lakers 26-29, Trail Blazers 25-29.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 1-1.

Update: The Lakers have been awful in Portland, going 4-17 there since 2002, but it’s a different story at Staples Center, where they have won 13 of their last 15 against the Trail Blazers. Point guard Damian Lillard is a rookie-of-the-year candidate, but Portland has lost its last six 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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