Lakers tonight

By Mike Bresnahan

Dec. 22, 2008 12 AM PT

AT MEMPHIS

Time: 5 PST.

On the air: TV: Channel 9; Radio: 570, 1330.

Where: FedExForum.

Records: Lakers 21-5, Grizzlies 9-17.

Record vs. Grizzlies (2007-08): 2-1.

Update: The Grizzlies are better than the team that lost 29 of its last 38 games last season. Third-year forward Rudy Gay leads a young, active team that has received a boost from rookie O.J. Mayo’s scoring punch (a team-high 20.3 points a game). The Lakers rarely have an easy time in Memphis, compiling a 3-6 record there the last five seasons.

-- 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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