"It's weird s**t" - JJ Redick heartbroken over losing personal treasures in LA wildfire

This week, Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick and his family lost their home and everything inside in the wildfires that have continued to wreak havoc on the greater LA area. While Redick, his wife, and their children were able to escape safely, as he told members of the press at practice on Friday, everything the family owned was lost to the fires.

Between nearly two decades together as a couple, Redick and his wife amassed a number of sentimental things, such as a drawing Redick's son did of a lighthouse while in school in Brooklyn.

"Our home is gone," Redick said at 1:36. "We were renting for the year. Trying to figure out where we wanted to be long-term. Everything we owned that was of any importance to us as a couple and ten years of parenting was in that house. There are certain things that you can't replace that will never be replaced. It's weird s**t."

According to the Lakers coach, not only is everything in their house gone, but so is the entire Palisades community. As he told media members, however, the thing that hurts the most is the loss of the community as a whole.

Before he accepted the Lakers coaching job, his wife was hesitant to leave Brooklyn, saying that because of the community there, she's never loved living anywhere as much as she loved Brooklyn.

Since moving, however, JJ Redick and his family have been embraced by the Palisades community. Now, the community, including a rec center that served as a hub for the Palisades community, where neighbors spent their days, is gone.

For JJ Redick and his family, in addition to the loss of sentimental keepsakes, the loss of community hit home.

"I think the thing that hit home for us the most was Tuesday night the rec center caught on fire. And the day we visited the house and decided we wanted to live in the house, we were like, let's go explore the village. And we stumbled upon the rec center ...

"The rec center was this place we were at every day. I mean flag football, basketball, the playground, baseball, tennis courts. And everyone we knew was there every day. And it just hurts to lose that."

Despite that, Redick said that he's aware that people make up community, and while Palisades has been destroyed, the people that made up the community are ready to rebuild - something Redick wants to help lead.

"It's not just our community," - JJ Redick speaks about the ongoing wildfires across the greater LA area

Since the onset of the wildfires that have devastated the greater LA area as of late, the NBA community has continued to hear stories about how the situation has impacted those within it.

For example, Steve Kerr's mother had to evacuate her home, where the Warriors coach grew up. While Kerr's mom made it out safe, the family lost his childhood home to the fires.

Similarly, Lakers videographer Rohan Ali, who has been with the franchise for almost an entire decade, started a GoFundMe for his parents, who lost their home to the fires.

As JJ Redick told those in attendance on Friday, despite the reality of losing his home, and the Palisades community, he knows that many others around the greater LA area are going through the same thing.

"It's not just our community that has been impacted by this. There's people in Malibu, there's people in Brentwood, there's people up in the Valley, there's people in Pasadena.

"Its all over LA. ... We're committed to helping other people as much as we can, and we're going to do that. And we recognize that it's going to be a long process."

After the NBA postponed LA's game against the Hornets, the league is now continuing to monitor the situation ahead of JJ Redick and the Lakers' game against the Spurs on Saturday.