Up next for the Lakers: Tuesday vs. Dallas

By Mike Bresnahan

Jan. 6, 2014 12 AM PT

When: 5:30 PST.

Where: American Airlines Center.

On the air: TV: TWC SportsNet, TWC Deportes; Radio: 710, 1330.

Records: Lakers 14-20, Mavericks 19-15.

Record vs. Mavericks: 0-1.

Update: The Mavericks are eighth in the Western Conference, managing to stay in the hunt for a playoff spot despite bleak forecasts. Dirk Nowitzki continues to score at a solid rate at age 35 (20.9 points a game) and Monta Ellis has been a great free-agent pickup (20 points, 5.8 assists a game). Nowitzki scored only 11 points but Dallas still beat the Lakers in November, 123-104, thanks to 30 points from Ellis and 18 from reserve Jae Crowder.

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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.

Up next for the Lakers: Tuesday vs. Dallas

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