Former NBA guard Randy Livingston, a New Orleans native, didn't know who to reach out to 10 years ago during Hurricane Katrina.



When Livingston had no one else to help his mother, Ada, he called then-San Antonio Spurs assistant general manager Sam Presti. It was Presti, who is now the general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who was able to arrange for Ada Livingston to stay at a hotel the Spurs normally used for "draft picks and friends of the program," according to Yahoo! Sports NBA reporter Marc Spears.



Spears wrote about several professional athletes -- including Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy, New York Giants safety Landon Collins, Denver Broncos offensive tackle Chris Clark, and Washington Wizards forward Kelly Oubre -- who were directly affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.



From Spears:





Livingston's mother, Ada, was trying to find a way out of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Livingston made her promise that she would not go to the Louisiana Superdome for refuge because of the horrible living conditions and danger. Ada Livingston eventually departed New Orleans on a bus with other evacuees that took her to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio with a 2 a.m. arrival.



And when Presti received Randy Livingston's phone call, he agreed to help locate Ada at the base:



"I recall driving up to the base and seeing what looked like hundreds of yellow school buses," Presti told Yahoo Sports. "I thought to myself, 'How am I going to find this woman?' It didn't dawn on me the amount of people that would probably get evacuated to the same spot. Somehow Randy kind of directed me toward where she was. He was the navigator for us and I was able to find her much more quickly than I would have imagined when I first arrived."

According to Spears, Presti kept in touch with Ada Livingston before she left San Antonio to meet up with family in Tennessee.



"It's one of those things that is way out of the scope of basketball," Presti said about aiding the Livingstons. "It's kind of makes you realize it's a small community of people who are involved in it."



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