Rockets owner Les Alexander presented Mayor Sylvester Turner with a $500,000 donation after the first quarter of the Rockets playoff game against Golden State on Thursday night. The donation will go to the mayor's recently established Greater Houston Storm Relief Fund, in light of the city's recent floods.
"I want to thank Les Alexander and the Houston Rockets for making a huge, huge contribution to the people and the city of Houston, especially in their moment of need in this major crisis," Turner said. "He didn't have to do it at all and didn't have to do it to the degree that he did.