Los Angeles Lakers famous person Anthony Davis is donating $20,000 to assist a longtime staff videographer, Rohan Ali, and his household recuperate after the large Los Angeles wildfires burned his childhood residence to the bottom.
Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis donated $20,000 to Rohan Ali’s GoFundMe web page to assist household rebuild
Ali shared the tragic information this week, saying his childhood residence in Altadena, the place his mother and father Gayle and Rasheed lived for greater than three many years, was destroyed within the blaze. He mentioned it was the one home his mother and father ever owned.
After the house went up in flames, Ali launched a GoFundMe to assist with meals, housing, transportation, and different rebuilding prices. The aim to succeed in is $80,000.
Whereas Davis donated $20,000 on the GoFundMe web page, Lakers teammate Jarred Vanderbilt additionally gave $4,000. ESPN’s Dave McMenamin despatched $250 as properly. With 299 donations, a complete of $48,715 has been raised to this point.
Dan Woike, who covers the Lakers for the LA Occasions, retweeted the replace concerning the workers member and his household, and wrote, “Rohan is considered one of my favourite folks within the Lakers group.”
Coach JJ Redick misplaced his rental residence in Pacific Palisades
After all, Rohan Ali is only one member of the Lakers neighborhood who has been affected by the wildfires.
Throughout a pre-game presser, Lakers head coach JJ Redick revealed that his rental residence in Pacific Palisades was one of many buildings misplaced within the flames.
“My household and my spouse’s household, my spouse’s twin sister, they’ve evacuated,” he mentioned.
Due to the wildfires, the NBA postponed Thursday’s recreation in Los Angeles between the Hornets and Lakers. Thursday marked the second straight day {that a} recreation slated to be performed in downtown Los Angeles has been postponed.
The NHL’s Los Angeles Kings have been scheduled to host the Calgary Flames on Wednesday evening.
“We’re heartbroken for Los Angeles,” the Lakers mentioned in a press release. “Our ideas are with all these impacted by this unimaginable state of affairs. And our gratitude is with the primary responders and all of you who come collectively once we want one another probably the most. Tonight’s recreation can be rescheduled to concentrate on what issues most immediately.”
The NBA has not introduced a make-up date for the Hornets-Lakers recreation.