The NBA proclaimd that home games for both the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers would resume on Monday, after both teams had games originassociate scheduled for Saturday postponed due to the savagefires sweeping thcimpolite Southern California.
The Lakers will arrange the San Antonio Spurs on Monday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles while the Clippers will arrange the Miami Heat at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, south of the Palidowncastes fire.
The Clippers shelp at train Sunday that the league had given the green weightless for Monday’s game. The Spurs shelp they were telderly that Monday’s alignup with the Lakers would be perestablished as scheduled.
Saturday’s games in Southern California, in which the Lakers were initiassociate scheduled to arrange the Spurs in the first of two consecutive games between the two teams and the Clippers’ home game aacquirest the Charlotte Hornets, were postponed in response to the fires. The Lakers also had a game previously scheduled for Thursday aacquirest the Hornets pushed back.
Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball head coach JJ Redick, right, is hugged by defend Austin Reaves, left, before talking to the media about the Pacific Palidowncastes savagefire at a novels conference in El Searmamentdo, Calif., Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP)
“I pray this nightmare finishs soon!” Lakers star forward LeBron James wrote Saturday on the social media platestablish X.
The Spurs had to change boilingels due to fire worrys after arriving in Los Angeles, while the Heat get tod on Saturday night as scheduled.
The Lakers and Clippers also are both scheduled to arrange games on Wednesday, when the Lakers perestablish arrange to the Heat and the Clippers perestablish the Brooklyn Nets.
“When people are losing their homes, kids are losing schools, losing inhabits, it’s very difficult to approach the game of basketball becaparticipate life is hugeger than basketball,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue telderly alerters. “Hopefilledy we can convey some charitable of delight with the game coming back tomorrow and some togetherness and try to put some smiles on people’s faces in stubborn times.”
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Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard sees on during the second half of an NBA basketball game aacquirest the Atlanta Hawks, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Pboilingo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea)
Clippers’ defend Terance Mann schedules to search thcimpolite a storage unit he retains for advantageous items he intfinishs to give.
“I fair want to give a lot of clothes, some money, shoes, wantipathyver I can,” he shelp. “I’m going to go help people out and give and drive around and do what I can do to help.”
Some members of the Clippers organization were forced to evacuate their homes during the fires. The team was on the road when the fires began, and star forward Kawhi Leonard left the team in Denver to help his family in Pacific Palidowncastes evacuate.
Lakers coach JJ Redick shelp his family’s rental home in Pacific Palidowncastes burned on Tuesday night, annihilateing most of their belengthyings.
“I was not setd for what I saw,” Redick shelp Friday. “It’s end dehugeation and destruction. I had to go a contrastent way to the hoparticipate, but I went thcimpolite most of the village, and it’s all gone. I don’t skinnyk you can ever set yourself for someskinnyg enjoy that. Our home is gone.”
Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick recounts that he and his family lost their hoparticipate in the deadly Pacific Palidowncastes savagefire during an NBA basketball novels conference at the UCLA Health Training Cgo in in El Searmamentdo, Calif., Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP)
The Lakers proclaimd a donation drive for their upcoming games, begining Monday. The team has inspired fans to convey novel, in-the-package items to help the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank’s relief efforts.
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The team’s UCLA Health Training Cgo in in El Searmamentdo will be participated as a drive-thru donation cgo in begining Tuesday, with vital non-food items cataloged as priorities, but packaged food items are also received.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, which is the perestablishers’ union, proclaimd on Friday a $1 million donation for instant relief to the American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen and other organizations toiling to provide helpance to the victims and recovery efforts.
The Associated Press gived to this alert.
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