Up next for the Lakers: Friday at Philadelphia

By Mike Bresnahan

Dec. 16, 2010 12 AM PT

Lakers Tonight

AT PHILADELPHIA

When: 4 PST.

Where: Wells Fargo Center.

On the air: TV: Channel 9; Radio: 710, 1330.

Records: Lakers 19-7, 76ers 10-15.

Record vs. 76ers (2009-10): 2-0.

Update: After a couple of down years, former Clippers forward Elton Brand has had a mini-resurgence, averaging team highs of 15.5 points and 8.1 rebounds a game. Former UCLA guard Jrue Holiday is averaging 14 points and 6.6 assists in his second pro season. The Lakers have won their last three games in Philadelphia.

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.