As a result of the current wildfires in Southern California, the NBA has postponed Saturday’s games between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs and Crypto.com Arena, as well as the Charlotte Hornets-Los Angeles Clippers matchup that was scheduled to be played at the Intuit Dome. Dates for rescheduled games will be announced at a later date.
He league statement is below:
The NBA and the Clippers and Lakers organizations have been in communication with local officials in Los Angeles and Inglewood regarding the current situation in the Los Angeles area and the game postponements ensure that resources are not diverted from wildfire response efforts. .
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are donating $1 million in immediate relief to the American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen and other organizations to support those affected by this disaster, and are working with the Lakers and Clippers to find ways to support long term. relief and reconstruction efforts.
Hornets-Lakers game scheduled for Thursday night was also postponedand the date for that makeup game has yet to be announced.
Lakers coach JJ Redick told reporters that the house his family was renting had burned down and they had lost “everything we had that was important to us.”
“I wasn’t prepared for what I saw,” Redick said of returning to the neighborhood where his family lived. “It’s total devastation and destruction. I had to go to the house a different way, but I went through most of the town and everything was gone. I don’t think you can prepare for something like that.”
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr also lost his childhood home as a result of the wildfires.
“That’s my hometown and all my friends that are from there, they’ve pretty much lost all their homes, family homes, childhood homes,” Kerr said of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. “It looks like the city has been completely razed.”
