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Up next for Lakers: Friday at Phoenix

By Mike Bresnahan
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LAKERS TONIGHT

AT PHOENIX

When: 7:30.

Where: US Airways Center.

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

Records: Lakers 1-0, Suns 0-1.

Record vs. Suns (2009-10): 3-1.

Update: The Lakers beat Phoenix in six games in last season’s Western Conference finals, but the Suns don’t look the same. Their power forward is now Hedo Turkoglu, not Amare Stoudemire, and expectations have been lowered along with their payroll.

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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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