{"id":286085,"date":"2020-01-08T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1109396"},"modified":"2020-01-08T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:07:00","slug":"jack-nicholson-makes-rare-public-appearance-to-cheer-on-his-beloved-l-a-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jack-nicholson-makes-rare-public-appearance-to-cheer-on-his-beloved-l-a-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Nicholson Makes Rare Public Appearance to Cheer On His Beloved L.A. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202008\/rs_1024x759-200108031838-1024-jack-ray-nicolson-lakers-games-2020.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Jack Nicholson, Ray Nicholson \" alt=\"Jack Nicholson, Ray Nicholson \" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.502590673575\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.046632124352\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jack_nicholson\">Jack Nicholson<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is doing just fine. And he still loves his basketball!<\/p>\n<p>The actor made a rare public appearance on Tuesday night to cheer on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1100712\/lizzo-is-a-true-winner-after-twerking-in-her-thong-courtside-at-the-lakers-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beloved Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> at their game against the New York Knicks. With him was his son,&nbsp;<strong>Ray Nicholson<\/strong>, who frequently accompanies his dad to sporting events, although they haven&#8217;t been seen at a game together since January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in all black and wearing a pair of tortoise shell sunglasses, the 82-year-old sat courtside at the game on Tuesday. Ray, 27, sat by his side looking just as casual in a black T-shirt, plum zip-up jacket, jeans and a baseball hat that said &#8220;<strong>Bram Stoker<\/strong>&#8216;s Dracula&#8221; across the top.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/687293\/jack-nicholson-and-look-alike-son-ray-have-some-fans-seeing-double-after-attending-charity-event-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">father-son duo<\/a> were all smiles as they watched the game, which (to the Oscar winner&#8217;s delight, no doubt) the Lakers won. The&nbsp;<em>Chinatown<\/em> star, clearly in good spirits, even posed for a photo with&nbsp;Canadian rapper&nbsp;<strong>Tory Lanez<\/strong> and fashion entrepreneur&nbsp;<strong>Umar Kamani<\/strong>, who were seated next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/570383\/jack-nicholson-s-youngest-son-looks-exactly-like-the-oscar-winner-at-nyc-fundraiser-take-a-look\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">him and Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.86388384755\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.117967332123\">\n<p>Although this seems to be Jack and Ray&#8217;s first game together in a year, the superstar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/542639\/jack-nicholson-snubs-young-fan-during-clippers-game-watch-the-hilarious-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seen at the Lakers<\/a> and Utah Jazz game on Oct. 25, 2019, as well as the Lakers and Golden State Warriors game on April 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of these sporting events, the star has distanced himself from public life in his retirement. And his long absences have raised concerns about his health among his fans.<\/p>\n<p>But as his grandson, <em>Us<\/em> actor <strong>Duke Nicholson<\/strong>, assured in an <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/meet-duke-nicholson-jacks-grandson-demand-actor-1262080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;with <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, Jack is doing just fine. He&#8217;s just committed to retirement.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>As the 20-year-old said of his grandfather&#8217;s health, &#8220;He&#8217;s doing great. He&#8217;s 100 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s 100 percent healthy and 100 percent ready to continue to cheer on the Lakers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1109396\/jack-nicholson-makes-rare-public-appearance-to-cheer-on-his-beloved-l-a-lakers?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images Jack Nicholson&nbsp;is doing just fine. And he still loves his basketball! The actor made a rare public appearance on Tuesday night to cheer on his beloved Los Angeles Lakers at their game against the New York Knicks. With him was his son,&nbsp;Ray Nicholson, who frequently accompanies his dad to sporting events, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 19:43:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}