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The father and brother of Darius Morris, a former Lakers and Clippers guard who died at age 33 in May, were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for stealing up to $5.1-million worth of U.S. Postal Service money orders. Dewayne Morris Jr. was sentenced to 12 years, and his father, Dewayne Morris Sr., to seven years….

The NHL has postponed Wednesday night’s scheduled game between the Kings and the Calgary Flames at Crypto.com Arena because of the wildfires burning across L.A. County. “Our hearts are with our entire Los Angeles community,” the Kings said in a statement. “We appreciate the hard working First Responders who are diligently working to contain the…

Defensive tackle Kobie Turner said the Rams’ long but joyful regular season primed them for what’s next. On Monday night, the No. 4-seeded Rams will play the No. 5 Minnesota Vikings in an NFC wild-card game at SoFi Stadium. “We’ve been waiting on this moment,” Turner said after the Rams’ regular-season finale against the Seattle…

Hamilton High has never won a City Section Open Division girls’ basketball championship. The Yankees could pull it off this season. Hamilton is 11-2, including 10 wins over Southern Section opponents. The Yankees might have the best player in the City in senior Jade Fort, who is averaging 24.4 points a game. And they came…

Jeff Bryant, the boys’ basketball coach at Palisades High, was about to hold practice at 11 a.m. on Tuesday in the school gym when security informed him that the campus needed to be evacuated because of the Palisades fire that had broken out at 10:30 a.m. “We saw fire above our parking structure,” Bryant said….

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TUESDAY’S RESULTS BOYS Academia Avance 36, Alliance Bloomfield 29Academy for Academic Excellence 65, Norton Science & Language 28Anaheim Canyon 63, Cypress 61Animo Robinson 62, New Designs University 21Animo Venice 80, New Designs Watts 43Animo Watts 48, Animo Pat Brown 27Antelope Valley 60, Lone Pine 47Arcadia 70, Glendale 55Artesia 56, Oxford Academy 51Bonita…

Some people thought following John Wooden was tough. John Hawks’ predecessors as UCLA men’s volleyball coach include John Speraw, who just won back-to-back NCAA championships, and Al Scates, whose 19 titles nearly doubled Wooden’s total as the legendary men’s basketball coach. Speraw’s departure in September to become president and CEO of USA Volleyball opened the…

UCLA coach Mick Cronin sounded exasperated as he cataloged his team’s crimes against his brand of basketball, pointing out his players didn’t play defense and allowed their opponents to push them aside to collect rebounds. The details he recalled during his 10-minute postgame news conference were intended to support an overarching thesis. “We’re soft,” he…

Isaiah Bennett, a senior point guard at AGBU High in Canoga Park, has known his coach, Nareg Kopooshian, for so long that there’s a photo of Bennett with him as a smiling 9-year-old wearing a headband while holding a trophy. “He knows all my stuff,” Bennett said. “He knows the inside and out. What I’m…

Lakers coach JJ Redick said his family was evacuated from their home in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday and offered his thoughts and prayers for everyone impacted by fires in the Los Angeles area. Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr also shared concern about the fires after his team played Tuesday night. He said his mother…