Up next for the Lakers: Wednesday at Golden State

By Ben Bolch

April 18, 2012 12 AM PT

Lakers tonight

AT GOLDEN STATE

Where: Oracle Arena, Oakland.

When: 7:30.

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

Records: Lakers 39-22 before Tuesday, Warriors 22-38.

Record vs. Warriors: 3-0.

Update: The Warriors haven’t given the Lakers much trouble this season, though they’ve been somewhat irksome for Andrew Bynum. The Lakers center was benched for much of the second half of a game in Oakland last month after taking a three-point attempt early in the shot clock. Then Bynum sprained his left ankle in the first quarter of the Lakers’ victory over the Warriors on April 1 and did not return for three days.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

Up next for the Lakers: Wednesday at Golden State

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