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Lakers again short-handed

By Mike Bresnahan
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If tonight looks a lot like Saturday night, you’re not mistaken.

The Lakers will again be without injured forwards Luke Walton, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom. None of the injuries are considered serious. In fact, Coach Phil Jackson said that ‘all of them’ would be available to play if this were not an exhibition game.

Jackson also joked that ‘they’re just kind of dodging games in preseason.’

Odom has missed two games because of a bruised right shin, Gasol has missed three games because of a strained right hamstring and Walton has missed three games because of a sore back.

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-- Mike Bresnahan

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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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