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UCLA basketball: Malcolm Lee tweaks right knee

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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As if UCLA didn’t have enough to worry about in the wake of a 66-57 loss to Montana on Sunday at Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins have added injury to insult.

Junior guard Malcolm Lee tweaked his right knee early in the second half against the Grizzlies and had an X-ray taken, UCLA Coach Ben Howland said Monday. Results were not immediately available.

Lee played through the injury and finished with 13 points and six rebounds. Howland said Lee suffered the injury when he hopped and landed awkwardly on his knee. Lee experienced what Howland described as ‘a little bit’ of swelling.

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UCLA, which began final exams Monday, will not practice again until Wednesday. The Bruins’ next game is at 5 p.m. Saturday against Cal Poly at Pauley Pavilion.

‘We have to bounce back and have good practices,’ Howland said.

-- Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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