{"id":167232,"date":"2025-07-13T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/167232\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:24:22","slug":"nba-postpones-lakers-spurs-clippers-hornets-games-on-saturday-because-of-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/167232\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA postpones Lakers-Spurs, Clippers-Hornets games on Saturday because of wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The NBA has postponed Saturday\u2019s home games for both the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers as part of the league\u2019s response to the wildfires that are ravaging Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers were to play host to San Antonio. The Clippers were to play host to Charlotte. No makeup dates have been announced, and the league didn\u2019t say if more games \u2014 both the Lakers and Clippers are scheduled to be home Monday and Wednesday as well \u2014 will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NBA and the Clippers and Lakers organizations have been in communication with local officials in Los Angeles and Inglewood about the ongoing situation in the Los Angeles area and the game postponements ensure no resources will be diverted from the wildfire response efforts,\u201d the league said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some Lakers and Clippers personnel who are directly dealing with the devastation caused by the wildfires, including <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wildfires-lakers-redick-faef4a6bb8f137017ca716ebb7c511d6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers coach JJ Redick \u2014 whose family lost countless personal belongings<\/a> when the home they are renting this season in Pacific Palisades burned on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not prepared for what I saw,\u201d Redick said. \u201cIt\u2019s complete devastation and destruction. I had to go a different way to the house, but I went through most of the village, and it\u2019s all gone. I don\u2019t think you can ever prepare yourself for something like that. Our home is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association late Friday announced a $1 million donation \u201cfor immediate relief\u201d to the American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen and other organizations. The league said the donation was \u201cto support those affected by this disaster\u201d and that it is \u201cworking with the Lakers and Clippers on ways to support longer term assistance and rebuilding efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers also had a game postponed Thursday against Charlotte; it has not been rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Lakers are set to play host to the Spurs again while the Clippers are scheduled to host the Miami Heat. On Wednesday, the Heat are scheduled to visit the Lakers and the Clippers are scheduled to play host to the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers said they expect the games starting Monday will be played as scheduled. \u201cThe health and safety of our community and our fans remains our highest priority,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The NBA has postponed Saturday\u2019s home games for both the Los Angeles Lakers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,579,160,684,559,1331,4034,192,4032,251,135,150,4033,4031,6,446,1567,969,66,582,15480],"class_list":{"0":"post-167232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ca-state-wire","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-clippers","13":"tag-j-j-redick","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-clippers","16":"tag-laclippers","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesclippers","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-nba-basketball","24":"tag-nc-state-wire","25":"tag-san-antonio","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tx-state-wire","28":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114844261752990489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}