Lakers tonight

By Mike Bresnahan

Jan. 2, 2009 12 AM PT

VS. UTAH

Time: 7:30

On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 570, 1330.

Where: Staples Center.

Records: Lakers 25-5; Jazz 19-14.

Record vs. Jazz (2007-08): 3-1.

Update: Utah has been hit hard by injuries and will be without Carlos Boozer for at least another month because of knee surgery. Reserve power forward Paul Millsap, who has been solid in Boozer’s absence, has sat out three games because of a sprained knee and might not play tonight. Utah is in ninth place in the Western Conference.

-- 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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