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Lakers’ Jordan Hill to show support at Komen Race for the Cure event

Lakers center Jordan Hill tries to power his way to the basket against Grizzlies forward Jeff Green (32) and guard Nick Calathes (right) in the first half.
(Brandon Dill / Associated Press)
By Mike Bresnahan
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Jordan Hill will be busy Saturday, and it has little to do with the Lakers’ practicing at their facility.

He will also be at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure event at Dodger Stadium, sponsoring “Team Hill.”

The Lakers center lost his mother, Carol, to breast cancer when he was three.

“It means everything to me,” Hill said. “I just want to give back. I had a scare with my sister, had a scare with my stepmother. It’s been in my family.

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“I just want everybody to know that I’m still there and still trying to support.”

Last October, Hill purchased tickets and invited 40 breast-cancer survivors to the Lakers’ game against the Clippers.

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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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