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Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Portland

By Mike Bresnahan

Lakers Tonight

VS. PORTLAND

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 710, 1330.

Records: Lakers 29-18, Trail Blazers 21-25.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 1-1.

Update: Portland’s 7-2 start this season seems like forever ago. The Trail Blazers lost to New York by 42 points last week, fired Coach Nate McMillan, and lost to Milwaukee by 29 on Tuesday. As good as the Trail Blazers are against the Lakers in Portland (10-2 since 2005), they have lost 11 of their last 13 against the Lakers at Staples Center.

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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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