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Mike Brown leaves before Lakers game for personal reasons

By Mike Bresnahan
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Mike Brown is not coaching the Lakers tonight against Denver because of personal reasons, according to the team.

Brown went through his regular pregame briefing with media members about 90 minutes before tipoff but left after that.

He was somewhat late for the briefing, spoke for 10 minutes and left Staples Center for home soon after that.

Assistant John Kuester is coaching in Brown’s place. Kuester took Brown’s spot earlier this season in Philadelphia, a game the Lakers lost, 95-90.

Brown missed that game because he served a one-game suspension for bumping a referee and failing to leave the court in a timely manner after being ejected in a loss to Utah.

Brown is expected to be back for the Lakers’ game Sunday against Dallas, according to a team official.

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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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