LeBron James sends message to Los Angeles as NBA postpones another Lakers game amid wildfire tragedy

LeBron James is praying for the extremity of the 'nightmare' engulfing Los Angeles arsenic wildfires proceed to devastate California.

By Saturday morning, the catastrophe had already claimed the lives of astatine slightest 11 radical and destroyed much than 10,000 structures.

Lakers manager JJ Redick and Warriors manager Steve Kerr are among those to person mislaid their homes successful the flames. 

And arsenic firefighters proceed to conflict the fires astir California, James sent a connection to the radical of his adopted hometown.

'I commune this nightmare ends soon!' the four-time NBA champion wrote connected societal media. 'So galore prayers,' helium added.

The wildfires person disrupted the sporting calendar successful Los Angeles, with Saturday's crippled betwixt the Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs postponed.

The NBA besides pushed backmost the LA Clippers' crippled against the Charlotte Hornets, which was slated for Saturday, too.

'The crippled postponements guarantee nary resources volition beryllium diverted from the wildfire effect efforts,' the NBA said.

'The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are donating $1million... to enactment those affected by this catastrophe and are moving with the Lakers and Clippers connected ways to enactment longer word assistance and rebuilding efforts.'

Warriors manager Kerr mislaid his puerility home, portion Redick's location successful Pacific Palisades has besides been destroyed. 

The Los Angeles Lakers caput manager admitted Friday that helium hasn't 'wept oregon wailed similar that successful respective years.'

'I was not prepared for what I saw,' Redick said. 'It's implicit devastation and destruction. 

'I had to spell a antithetic mode to the house, but I went done astir of the village, and it's each gone. I don't deliberation you tin ever hole yourself for thing similar that. Our location is gone.'

Redick said the rented location burned down Tuesday portion the Lakers were connected the roadworthy successful Dallas. 

Redick's wife, Chelsea, and their 2 sons were safely distant from the neighborhood, but Redick drove into Pacific Palisades connected Wednesday to spot the fire's impact.

'Everything that we owned that was of immoderate value to america successful astir 20 years unneurotic arsenic a mates and 10 years of parenting was successful that house,' Redick said. 

'There's definite things that you can't replace, that volition ne'er beryllium replaced.

'The worldly material is whatever. My household and I were processing the aforesaid side, the idiosyncratic side, of losing your home, and you don't ever privation to privation that connected anybody. It's an atrocious feeling to suffer your home.'