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Kobe Bryant ill, could miss tonight’s game

By Mike Bresnahan
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Lakers guard Kobe Bryant did not attend the team shoot-around this morning because of flu-like symptoms that included a fever.

It is not known if he will play tonight, though he has played through worse ailments.

‘He usually does,’ Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said.

Bryant is averaging 31.3 points, 7.3 rebounds in about 38 minutes of playing time in the Lakers’ first three games of the season.

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-- Mike Bresnahan

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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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