Brown, Next to Return

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  1. Really Lost One

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Another comeback, far less publicized, took place Friday night at Staples Center.

    The doors had barely swung open to the public when Kwame Brown finished a 90-minute pregame workout, bumping bodies in the post with Andrew Bynum and running sprints with injured teammate Aaron McKie.

    Expected to return in mid-November, he's aiming for next Friday's game against Detroit. He has been out two weeks because of a bruised rotator cuff and bursitis in his right shoulder.

    "It felt stronger today," Brown said. "Certain positions had been causing pain, but they didn't today."

    Brown struggled through most of last season, often fumbling passes in the post and hurrying his shot. But he averaged 13.6 points and 9.2 rebounds in the team's last 13 regular-season games, then 12.9 points and 6.6 rebounds in the playoffs.

    He has clearly pulled ahead of Chris Mihm as far as returning to the active roster.

    Mihm is still recovering from off-season surgery after sitting out 24 of the Lakers' last 25 games last season because of a severely sprained ankle. The team was hoping he would be back by mid-November, although that does not appear feasible.

    "He has good days and he has bad days," Lakers spokesman John Black said. "He is making progress, slowly, and we don't want to rush him back. There is no timetable for his return."

    Mihm averaged 10.2 points and 6.3 rebounds last season.

    McKie, sidelined the better part of October because of disk inflammation in his back, is not quite day to day, Black said.

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    I think he will share minutes at the Center spot with Bynum. Turiaf will probably get around 20 minutes against Seattle as a PF. It's going to be interesting to see how Kwame fits in. I'm worried our offense will be weakened with Kwame on the team.
     
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    So am I. If he goes in to pass though, I think things will be good.
     

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