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Lakers’ Dwight Howard expected to play Sunday night versus Nuggets

Dwight Howard is averaging 17.4 points and 12 rebounds this season.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
By Mike Bresnahan
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Dwight Howard took part in the Lakers’ morning shoot-around and was expected to play Sunday night against Denver.

Howard did not practice Saturday because of a sprained rotator cuff in his right shoulder.

He was injured Friday against the Clippers after Caron Butler fouled him. Howard returned to the game following a Lakers timeout.

Howard is averaging 17.4 points and 12 rebounds in his first season with the team.

The Lakers have a tough schedule this week, starting Sunday against a team ahead of them in the standings and continuing with back-to-back games in Houston and San Antonio on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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They finish the week with a home game Friday against Oklahoma City.

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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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