In a central paper on smoothness of best approximation in 1968 R. Holmes and B. Kripke proved among others that on ޒ n , endowed with the l-norm, 1p-ϱ, p the metric projection onto a given linear subspace is Lipschitz continuous where the Lipschitz constant depended on the parameter p. Using Hoffman's Error Bounds as a principal tool we prove uniform Lipschitz continuity of best l-app proximations. As a consequence, we reprove and prove, respectively, Lipschitz Ž. continuity of the strict best approximation sba, p s ϱ and of the natural best Ž. approximation nba, p s 1 .