Lakers face Portland on Sunday night at Staples Center

By Mike Bresnahan

Jan. 4, 2009 12 AM PT

Time: 6:30

On the air: TV: Fox Sports West; Radio: 570; 1330.

Where: Staples Center.

VS. PORTLAND

Records: Lakers 26-5, Trail Blazers 20-13.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 1-0.

Update: Brandon Roy will miss his third consecutive game because of a strained right hamstring. Rookie Rudy Fernandez replaces him in the starting lineup. Fernandez had 19 points Friday against New Orleans, but Portland lost, 92-77, in the Trail Blazers’ lowest offensive showing since their 96-76 opening-night loss to the Lakers.

-- 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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