Christmas is coming early to some lucky families in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The Clippers and the NBA are teaming up to give Los Angeles families an opportunity to receive free NBA All-Star-branded outdoor hoops over the next 75 days in celebration of the NBA All-Star Game coming to Intuit Dome.<\/p>\n
Beginning Wednesday, Los Angeles residents can submit their personal stories at clippers.com\/hoops for a chance to receive one of the hoops that will be distributed each day in a 75-day countdown to the All-Star Game on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
Coaches, parents and players can share: Why do you want a hoop? What inspires you to play? How has basketball influenced your life, family or neighborhood? How could the game change your future?<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas is coming early to some lucky families in Los Angeles. The Clippers and the NBA are teaming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15998,4690,3047,217,1431,45043,16309,48,52,51,1637,47,50,49,63,129,19075,45733,7087,45734,316],"class_list":["post-79712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-clipper","tag-coach","tag-com","tag-day","tag-family","tag-feb","tag-intuit-dome","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-life","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nba","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-outdoor-basketball-hoop","tag-parent","tag-personal-story","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}