{"id":139225,"date":"2020-03-12T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=139225"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:12:22","slug":"kings-pelicans-suspended-over-concern-referee-kirkland-worked-utah-game-earlier-in-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kings-pelicans-suspended-over-concern-referee-kirkland-worked-utah-game-earlier-in-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings-Pelicans suspended over concern referee Kirkland worked Utah game earlier in week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game between Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans has been suspended minutes before the tip-off because one of the three referees officiated Utah Jazz early this week.<br \/>\nJazz big man <a href=\"\/?p=139194\">Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/?p=139188\">NBA also temporarily suspended the season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/28888271\/pelicans-kings-game-postponed-concern-ref-worked-utah-game-earlier-week\">Per ESPN<\/a>, The NBA said &#8220;the game was canceled out of an abundance of caution because one of the referees assigned to work in the game also worked a Utah Jazz game earlier this week.&#8221; The referee was Courtney Kirkland.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkland was one of the officials for the Utah-Toronto tilt on Monday in Salt Lake City. Utah center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski. That led the Jazz-Thunder game to be postponed and the NBA to suspend its season.<\/p>\n<p>Before officials announced minutes before the scheduled tipoff that the game had been postponed, New Orleans players expressed concern about Kirkland and never left the opposing team&#8217;s locker room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before officials announced minutes before the scheduled tipoff that the game had been postponed, New Orleans players expressed concern about Kirkland and never left the opposing team&#8217;s locker room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[12543],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-139225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-coronavirus-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139225"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=139225"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=139225"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=139225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}