Up next for the Lakers: Tuesday vs. Portland

Lakers center Pau Gasol, left, backs in on Portland Trail Blazers center Robin Lopez during the Lakers' 107-106 win on March 3.

By Mike Bresnahan

March 31, 2014 4:44 PM PT

VS. PORTLAND

When: 7:30.

Where: Staples Center.

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

Records: Lakers 25-48; Trail Blazers 48-27.

Record vs. Trail Blazers: 1-1.

Update: The Lakers have two notable victories on the road this season — at Houston in November and at Portland in March. They had been 8-24 at Portland since Kobe Bryant’s rookie season but held on to win there, 107-106, after Wesley Johnson dunked a lob off Kent Bazemore’s inbounds pass with 6.9 seconds left. LaMarcus Aldridge averages 23.2 rebounds and 11.1 rebounds while fellow All-Star Damian Lillard averages 20.9 points and 5.5 assists for Portland.

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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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