Up next for the Lakers: Wednesday at Detroit

By Mike Bresnahan

Nov. 16, 2010 12 AM PT

AT DETROIT

Time: 4:30 PST

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

Where: The Palace.

Records: Lakers 9-2; Pistons 4-7.

Record vs. Pistons (2009-10): 2-0.

Update: The Lakers have had little trouble their last two road games against the Pistons, winning by a comfortable average of 13.5 points. Pistons point guard Rodney Stuckey is averaging a team-high 15.9 points and 5.9 assists a game.

—Mike Bresnahan

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.