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Los Angeles Lakers (18-16) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (20-12)
The Staples Center
Thursday, January 12, 2006
10:30pm ET
TV: TNT
Radio : WTAM 1100
Head Coaches
Phil Jackson / Mike Brown
Probable Starters
Smush Parker / Eric Snow
Kobe Bryant / Damon Jones
Lamar Odom / LeBron James
Kwame Brown / Drew Gooden
Chris Mihm / Zydrunas Ilguaskas
Cleveland Cavaliers Bench
D Marshall/L Jackson/I. Newble/A Henderson/M Wilks
Los Angeles Lakers Bench
S. Vujacic/A. McKie/D. George/B. Cook/A Bynum
Cavaliers' Notes
* The beginning of a 6 game, 12 day West coast road trip, the longest of the season....ugh.
* I put Damon Jones in the starting lineup, but I personally doubt he gets the start against Kobe. Look for Ira Newble or Luke Jackson (longshot) to get the nod.
* LeBron has posted at least 30 points, seven rebounds and five assists in each of the last seven games.
* Drew Gooden has posted five double doubles in his last eight games. He has a career-high tying seven offensive boards in each of the last two games.
* Last season, Z averaged 21.5 points on .615 shooting, 13 rebounds and one block against the Lakers.
* There's a good chance Anderson Varejao will make his season debut tonight against the Lakers at the Staples Center. Varejao, out all year after offseason shoulder surgery, has been cleared for practice for the last week and a half and is ready. Brown said before the team left the final decision will be made after this morning's shootaround.
``We'll talk about it on the flight and tomorrow morning,'' Brown said. ``He probably would be cleared to play. It is a discussion we'll have on the flight out.''
Lakers' notes
* The Lakers play tonight (Wednesday) in Portland, so hopefully Kobe is tired.
* Bryant poured in 45 points in Monday's 96-90 triumph over Indiana to become the first player since Wilt Chamberlain in November 1964 to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games.
CAVALIER STATS
Player G PPG RPG APG
James, L 32 30.8 6.5 5.8
Hughes, L 28 16.2 4.2 3.9
Ilgauskas, Z 31 15.1 7.5 0.9
Gooden, D 32 11.3 8.8 0.8
Marshall, D 31 10.5 7.3 0.9
Jones, D 32 7.5 1.6 1.8
Snow, E 32 4.6 2.3 4.1
Jackson, L 24 2.4 1.0 0.6
Henderson, A 30 2.3 2.7 0.2
Hamilton, Z 11 2.3 1.0 0.0
Pavlovic, A 13 1.8 0.6 0.1
Newble, I 10 1.5 2.5 0.5
Wilks, M 22 1.1 0.8 0.5
Andriuskevicius, M 1 0.0 0.0 0.0
LAKERS STATS
Player G PPG RPG APG
Bryant, K 33 34.3 5.7 4.4
Odom, L 35 14.7 9.4 5.4
Parker, S 35 11.3 3.1 3.0
Mihm, C 35 10.1 6.6 0.9
Cook, B 34 7.4 3.1 0.9
George, D 30 6.1 3.6 1.0
Brown, K 25 5.8 5.8 0.9
Walton, L 23 5.1 3.4 2.7
Profit, L 25 4.2 1.7 0.6
Vujacic, S 35 4.0 2.0 1.8
Wafer, V 11 1.6 0.6 0.3
Bynum, A 21 1.4 1.7 0.0
Medvedenko, S 2 1.0 0.0 0.5
Green, D 14 0.9 1.1 0.1
McKie, A 10 0.3 1.3 0.6
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