While Southern California was being ravaged by raging wildfires that weren’t under any containment heading in Saturday morning, the Los Angeles Lakers boarded a flight for Sacramento and a matchup with the Kings in the first of a back-to-back.
For all the attention the destruction in Thousand Oaks, Malibu and other local cities was deservedly receiving, Northern California was dealing with devastation itself. The effects of the Camp Fire in Butte County reached the state’s capitol.
Prior to tipoff at Golden 1 Center, there were multiple photos and accounts of smoke filling the upper bowl of the arena.