A Look At The Lakers 2010-11 Schedule
LOS ANGELES (KCAL 9) ― The defending NBA Champion Lakers will open their season on October 26, against the Houston Rockets.
The Lakers will face the Boston Celtics and recently signed center Shaquille O'Neal on January 30 at home in a rematch of last season's NBA Finals.
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This season 16 Laker games will be nationally broadcast on either ESPN or ABC, which is the most of any team and the maximum number allowed under the league's television contract.
A couple of those national appearances include the Lakers facing the Miami Heat on Christmas Day and taking on Oklahoma City Thunder on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 17.
Laker individual game tickets are expected to go on sale in early October.