Up next: Lakers vs. Clippers on Tuesday

By Mike Bresnahan

Oct. 29, 2013 12:14 AM PT

LAKERS-CLIPPERS TONIGHT

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: TNT; Radio: 710, 980, 1330.

Records (2012-13): 4-0, Clippers.

Update: Three of the Clippers’ four victories over the Lakers were by double digits last season. The Clippers swept them for the first time since 1974-75 and have never done it two seasons in a row. Kobe Bryant will not play because of a torn Achilles’ tendon, missing his first season opener since 2006. Clippers reserve guard Darren Collison has a bruised kneecap but is expected to play.

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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.

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