The Los Angeles Lakers will try to rebound off their worst effort of the season Friday when they host the visiting Denver Nuggets to Staples Center at 10:30 pm ET.
Los Angeles (7-8) dumped Denver (8-8) out of the opening round of last spring's postseason, winning 96-87 in Game 7 at Staples Center as Kobe Bryant averaged 29.1 points in the series.
Bryant remains to be the lethal scorer that he's known for as he is leading the NBA with 27.7 points per game. He's averaging 31.8 over the past four games, but the Lakers have dropped three of them to fall to 2/3 under coach Mike D'Antoni.
In Wednesday's 79-77 home loss, Bryant overcame the flu to pour in 40 points, but he committed 10 turnovers while Los Angeles shot a season-low 31.6 percent from the field and missed 20 of 43 from the line.
Meanwhile, the Nuggets hope to win the last game of their three-game road trip.
Video review stopped the Nuggets' celebrations by showing Andre Iguodala's potential game-winning 3-pointer came after the buzzer in Thursday's 106-105 loss at Golden State.
Iguodala is averaging 17.3 points in six road meetings with the Lakers despite shooting 3 for 19 from beyond the arc.
Danilo Gallinari, who contributed 20 points and nine rebounds Thursday, may be looking to redeem himself in this visit to Staples Center after making just 1 of 9 shots from the floor to finish with three points in Game 7. The forward finished the series averaging 13.4 points on 36.2 percent shooting while making only 4 of 23 from long range.
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