{"id":503355,"date":"2026-01-09T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:49:19","slug":"heat-bulls-game-postponed-due-to-condensation-on-court-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503355\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Bulls game postponed due to condensation on court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The scheduled game between the<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a>and<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The United Center hosted a<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scheduled game between theMiami HeatandChicago Bulls was postponed on Thursday because of condensation on the court in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[225656,3127,5723,3120,1260,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-503355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-225656","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115864283696922031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503355","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=503355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}