{"id":503194,"date":"2026-01-09T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503194\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:11:20","slug":"heat-bulls-game-postponed-due-to-condensation-on-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503194\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Bulls game postponed due to condensation on court"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kram_zach.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Zach KramJan 8, 2026, 10:28 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Zach Kram is a national NBA writer for ESPN.com, specializing in short- and long-term trends across the league&#8217;s analytics landscape. He previously worked at The Ringer covering the NBA and MLB. You can follow Zach on X via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zachkram\">@zachkram<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scheduled game between the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81e3212c-30ef-9b1b-5edb-453b13ff265a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> was postponed on Thursday because of condensation on the court in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The United Center hosted a <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e1595aca-83a9-f0b3-5621-0ef78e76d097\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-blackhawks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> game on ice Wednesday, and after an unseasonably warm, rainy day in Chicago, the basketball court wasn&#8217;t in playable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Players from both teams went through their standard pregame warmup routines but didn&#8217;t consider the court safe for a game.<\/p>\n<p>Following more than 90 minutes of futile attempts to fix the issue &#8212; including turning up the arena&#8217;s air conditioning and sweeping the court with mops and large towels &#8212; the NBA league office, game officials and both teams&#8217; coaches decided on the postponement.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>United Center employees clean the court during a delay before Thursday&#8217;s scheduled game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls. The game was later postponed.\u00a0AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players were complaining about it on both sides,&#8221; Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. &#8220;We all went out there and pretty much immediately, we felt that it wasn&#8217;t playable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A makeup date was not immediately announced Thursday night. The Heat aren&#8217;t currently scheduled to return to Chicago this season.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016-17 season, games in Minnesota and Philadelphia were postponed by condensation under similar circumstances: a warm day in a cold-weather city, following an event on ice in the arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach KramJan 8, 2026, 10:28 PM ET Close Zach Kram is a national NBA writer for ESPN.com, specializing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-503194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863898398879665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}