Lakers play host to the Charlotte Bobcats

By Mike Bresnahan

Jan. 27, 2009 12 AM PT

VS. CHARLOTTE

Time: 7:30.

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

Where: Staples Center.

Records: Lakers 35-8, Bobcats 18-26.

Record vs. Bobcats (2007-08): 1-1.

Update: The Bobcats have played much better since acquiring Raja Bell and Boris Diaw from Phoenix in a five-player trade last month. In the last three weeks, they defeated Boston, Phoenix, Detroit and Portland, and lost to San Antonio by two points. The Bobcats have won four of their last five against the Lakers, including a 108-95 victory at Staples Center last March.

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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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