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Basketball: Celebrity game to raise funds for kids

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Mark Wahlberg, Kelly Monaco and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be among the celebrities participating in a celebrity fundraiser basketball game to raise money for Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles.

The game will be held Saturday at L.A. Valley College with doors opening at 2 p.m. and tipoff scheduled for 3 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $50. Magic Johnson will serve as one of the coaches.

The event is dedicated to Carter Newman-Milic, a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with brain cancer in February and had a malignant tumor removed. Her father, Buckley girls’ basketball coach Byrd Newman-Milic, said Carter’s recovery has been slow.

‘A healthy active 11-year-old no longer walks, and though she is getting better and making improvement she has a long way to go to get her pre-surgery life back,’ Byrd Newman-Milic said.

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More information on the event can be found here.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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