Lakers Tonight

By Mike Bresnahan

March 11, 2009 12 AM PT

AT HOUSTON

Time: 5:30 PDT.

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

Where: Toyota Center.

Records: Lakers 50-13, Rockets 42-23.

Record vs. Rockets: 2-0.

Update: The Rockets are third in the Western Conference and have won 11 of their last 13 games, including a 97-95 victory Monday at Denver. The Lakers won at Houston in January, 105-100, when Kobe Bryant’s long three-pointer gave them the lead for good with 27.4 seconds left. The Lakers had little trouble with the Rockets in a 111-82 home victory near the start of the season.

-- Mike Bresnahan

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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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