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Los Angeles LakersVERSUSOrlando Magic

2004-05 · Regular Season · Nov 12, 2004

Los Angeles visited Orlando early in Dwight Howard's rookie season.

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Home starting five
Orlando Magic
StarterGHGrant Hill
StarterHTHedo Turkoglu
StarterJNJameer Nelson
StarterPGPat Garrity

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The Lakers had broken up their championship core by trading Shaquille O'Neal, leaving Kobe Bryant to lead a remade team under new coach Rudy Tomjanovich. Orlando arrived with top pick Dwight Howard only weeks into the career that would eventually make him the league's dominant center.

  • Bryant was beginning his first season as the unquestioned center of the Lakers franchise.
  • Howard was an 18-year-old rookie whose defensive reputation and extraordinary athleticism were still mostly projections.

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Starter
SFSteve Francis
Away starting five
Los Angeles Lakers
StarterBGBrian Grant
StarterCBCaron Butler
StarterCAChucky Atkins
StarterKBKobe Bryant
StarterLOLamar Odom

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.